The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories - Jeff Vandermeer

This is a landmark, leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wild and strange, featuring an all-star cast of authors, such as William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Franz Kafka, China Mieville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, and Michael Chabon. n nFrom Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. n nExotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. nThe Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. n nThe Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthologyn