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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

Ann VanderMeer (Editor),

Jeff VanderMeer (Editor)

Start date: November 15, 2019

Finish date: January 14, 2020

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Nov 06, 2011 Zach rated it it was amazing

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, fantasy, fiction, weird-fiction, short-stories

Watching the number of characters I can fit into this textbox dwindle away as I review each story is creating a feeling of anxiety entirely appropriate to this book. Thanks, goodreads.

Alfred Kubin, “The Other Side” (excerpt), 1908 (translation, Austria)
Set somewhere on Earth in the fictional city of Pearl, this story featured an interesting juxtaposition of a straight-forward, almost newsprint-esque voice addressing the successive plagues of sleeping sickness, animal infestation, and non-orga ...more

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Jan 19, 2020 Fiona Knight rated it really liked it

Shelves: capital-w-weird, short-n-sweet, lovecraftish, mythology

RTC, because this book is freaking massive and deserves for me to spend some time on it.

Buddy read with the good folks over at Spells, Space and Screams.

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Aug 12, 2021 Toby rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I’ve finally read this beast of a book in its entirety! The behemothic breadth of this anthology is unmatched, and the quality (and weirdness) of the stories is consistent throughout. If I were to engage my cynical side, I would say that the stories by the likes of Gaiman, King, Martin and Murakami are perhaps not sufficiently weird to merit inclusion and perhaps would not have been, were it not for the star power of their authors. However, those are in the minority and there is a vast assortmen ...more

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Jan 15, 2020 D Dyer rated it liked it

Shelves: disability-community-rep, fantasy, queer-lgbtqia-rep, owned, 2020-reads, horror, classics

This collection featured some truly spectacular choices made by the editors. I had the pleasure of rereading some of my favorite stories by Octavia Butler, margo Lanigan and Joyce Carol Oates as well as of being introduced to authors I’ll definitely be seeking out more work from. But not every choice was an inspired one, there were some stories that despite very much enjoying them I didn’t feel fit the overall theme of the collection and others that were just bad examples both of the genre and o ...more

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Jul 08, 2012 Ronald rated it it was amazing

Shelves: weird-fiction

I've resolved that, if I'm interested in a big book, I would get it for my ereader. Such is the case here.

However, I discovered that my ebook version is missing the story "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati. I informed amazon, and they replied that they are working with the publisher on the problem, and they will not be selling the ebook until the problem is solved.

This book is a collection of weird stories that were published in over the past 100 years , written by authors world-wide. Weird fiction ...more

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