Weirdies, Weirding On…

Work on the book of weird, covering a century and clocking in at 750,000 words, continues apace. We've recently acquired stories from writers like Shirley Jackson, Merce Rodoreda, Jamaica Kincaid, Leonora Carrington, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Michael Ajvaz, Murakami, Joanna Russ, Bruno Schulz…well, the list goes on and on.

Some writers don't fit, or their short fiction turns out not to be of the same quality as their novels. Some classics continue to hold up and others don't. Some...