THE WEIRD: TABLE OF CONTENTS


Alfred Kubin, "The Other Side" (excerpt), 1908

F. Marion Crawford, "The Screaming Skull," 1908

Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows," 1907

Saki, "Sredni Vashtar," 1910

M.R. James, "Casting the Runes," 1911

Lord Dunsany, "How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art," 1912

Gustav Meyrink, "The Man in the Bottle," 1912

Georg Heym, "The Dissection," 1913

Hanns Heinz Ewers, "The Spider," 1915

Rabindranath Tagore, "The Hungry Stones," 1916

Luigi Ugolini, "The Vegetable Man," 1917

A. Merritt, "The People of the Pit," 1918

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "The Hell Screen," 1918

Francis Stevens, "Unseen---Unfeared," 1919

Franz Kafka, "In the Penal Colony," 1919

Stefan Grabinski, "The White Weyrak," 1921

H.F. Arnold, "The Night Wire," 1926

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror," 1929

Margaret Irwin, "The Book," 1930

Jean Ray, "The Mainz Psalter," 1930

Jean Ray, "The Shadowy Street," 1931

Clark Ashton Smith, "Genius Loci," 1933

Hagiwara Sakutoro, "The Town of Cats," 1935

Hugh Walpole, "The Tarn," 1936

Bruno Schulz, "Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass," 1937

Robert Barbour Johnson, "Far Below," 1939

Fritz Leiber, "Smoke Ghost," 1941

Leonora Carrington, "White Rabbits," 1941

Donald Wollheim, "Mimic," 1942

Ray Bradbury, "The Crowd," 1943

William Sansom, "The Long Sheet," 1944

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Aleph," 1945

Olympe Bhely-Quenum, "A Child in the Bush of Ghosts," 1949

Shirley Jackson, "The Summer People," 1950

Margaret St. Clair, "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles," 1951

Robert Bloch, "The Hungry House," 1951

Augusto Monterroso, "Mister Taylor," 1952

Amos Tutuola, "The Complete Gentleman," 1952

Jerome Bixby, "It's a Good Life," 1953

Julio Cortazar, "Axolotl," 1956

William Sansom, "A Woman Seldom Found," 1956

Charles Beaumont, "The Howling Man," 1959

Mervyn Peake, "Same Time, Same Place," 1963

Dino Buzzati, "The Colomber," 1966

Michel Bernanos, "The Other Side of the Mountain," 1967

Merce Rodoreda, "The Salamander," 1967

Claude Seignolle, "The Ghoulbird," 1967

Gahan Wilson, "The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be," 1967

Daphne Du Maurier, "Don't Look Now," 1971

Robert Aickman, "The Hospice," 1975

Dennis Etchison, "It Only Comes Out at Night," 1976

James Tiptree Jr., "The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Terrible Things to Rats," 1976

Eric Basso, "The Beak Doctor," 1977

Jamaica Kincaid, "Mother," 1978

George R.R. Martin, "Sandkings," 1979

Bob Leman, "Window," 1980

Ramsey Campbell, "The Brood," 1980

Michael Shea, "The Autopsy," 1980

William Gibson/John Shirley, "The Belonging Kind," 1981

M. John Harrison, "Egnaro," 1981

Joanna Russ, "The Little Dirty Girl," 1982

M. John Harrison, "The New Rays," 1982

Premendra Mitra, "The Discovery of Telenapota," 1984

F. Paul Wilson, "Soft," 1984

Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild," 1984

Clive Barker, "In the Hills, the Cities," 1984

Leena Krohn, "Tainaron," 1985

Garry Kilworth, "Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands," 1987

Lucius Shepard, "Shades," 1987

Harlan Ellison, "The Function of Dream Sleep," 1988

Ben Okri, "Worlds That Flourish," 1988

Elizabeth Hand, "The Boy in the Tree," 1989

Joyce Carol Oates, "Family," 1989

Poppy Z Brite, "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood," 1990

Michal Ajvaz, "The End of the Garden," 1991

Karen Joy Fowler, "The Dark," 1991

Kathe Koja, "Angels in Love," 1991

Haruki Murakami, "The Ice Man," 1991 (translation, Japan)

Lisa Tuttle, "Replacements," 1992

Marc Laidlaw, "The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio," 1993

Steven Utley, "The Country Doctor," 1993

William Browning Spenser, "The Ocean and All Its Devices," 1994

Jeffrey Ford, "The Delicate," 1994

Martin Simpson, "Last Rites and Resurrections," 1994

Stephen King, "The Man in the Black Suit," 1994

Angela Carter, "The Snow Pavilion," 1995

Craig Padawer, "The Meat Garden," 1996

Stepan Chapman, "The Stiff and the Stile," 1997

Tanith Lee, "Yellow and Red," 1998

Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat," 1998

Caitlin R. Kiernan, "A Redress for Andromeda," 2000

Michael Chabon, "The God of Dark Laughter," 2001

China Mieville, "Details," 2002

Michael Cisco, "The Genius of Assassins," 2002

Neil Gaiman, "Feeders and Eaters," 2002

Jeff VanderMeer, "The Cage," 2002

Jeffrey Ford, "The Beautiful Gelreesh," 2003

Thomas Ligotti, "The Town Manager," 2003

Brian Evenson, "The Brotherhood of Mutilation," 2003

Mark Samuels, "The White Hands," 2003

Daniel Abraham, "Flat Diana," 2004

Margo Lanagan, "Singing My Sister Down," 2005

T.M. Wright, "The People on the Island," 2005

Laird Barron, "The Forest," 2007

Liz Williams, "The Hide," 2007

Reza Negarestani, "The Dust Enforcer," 2008

Micaela Morrissette, "The Familiars," 2009

Steve Duffy, "In the Lion's Den," 2009

Stephen Graham Jones, "Little Lambs," 2009

J. Robert Lennon, "The Portal," 2010

K.J. Bishop, "Saving the Gleeful Horse," 2010