The Weird: Comparisons

Ann and I are not quite ready to announce the table of contents for The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Fictions, but it is interesting to compare our almost-final list of stories to two anthologies with a similar scope and overlapping focus.

Just to recap, we're covering 100 years of weird/the weird, starting in 1908 with an excerpt from Alfred Kubin's The Other Side, Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows", and F. Marion Crawford's "The Screaming Skull." In addition to wanting to cover a ...