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The New Weird
| Author: | Jeff VanderMeer Ann VanderMeer |
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Tachyon Publications, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Weird (Horror) Weird (Fantasy) |
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Synopsis
Descend into shadowy cities, grotesque rituals, chaotic festivals, and deadly cults. Plunge into terrifying domains, where bodies are remade into surreal monstrosities, where the desperate rage against brutal tyrants. Where everything is lethal and no one is innocent, where Peake began and Lovecraft left off--this is where you will find the New Weird.
Edgy, urban fiction with a visceral immediacy, the New Weird has descended from classic fantasy and dime-store pulp novels, from horror and detective comics, from thrillers and noir. All grown-up, it emerges from the chrysalis of nostalgia as newly literate, shocking, and utterly innovative.
Here is the very best of the New Weird from some of its greatest practitioners. This canonic anthology collects the original online debates first defining the New Weird and critical writings from international editors, culminating in a ground-breaking round-robin piece, "Festival Lives," which features some of the hottest new names in New Weird fiction.
Excerpt
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The new weird: "It's alive?" by Jeff VanderMeer
- The luck in the head by M. John Harrison
- In the hills, the cities by Clive Barker
- Crossing into Cambodia by Michael Moorcock
- The braining of Mother Lamprey by Simon D. Ings
- The neglected garden by Kathe Koja
- A soft voice whispers nothing by Thomas Ligotti
- Jack by China Mieville
- Immolation by Jeffrey Thomas
- The lizard of ooze by Jay Lake
- Watson's boy by Brian Evenson
- The art of dying by K.J. Bishop
- At Reparata by Jeffrey Ford
- Letters from Tainaron by Leena Krohn
- The ride of the Gabbleratchet by Steph Swainston
- The gutter sees the light that never shines by Alistair Rennie
- New weird discussions: the creation of a term "New weird": I think we're the scene by Michael Cisco
- Tracking phantoms by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
- Whose words you wear by K. J. Bishop
- European editor perspectives on the new weird by Martin Sust...[et al]
- Festival lives: preamble by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- View 1: Death in a dirty dhoti by Paul Di Filippo
- View 2: Cornflowers beside the unuttered by Cat Rambo
- View 3: All God's chillun got wings by Sarah Monette
- View 4: Locust-mind by Daniel Abraham
- View 5: Constable Chalch and the ten thousand heroes by Felix Gilman
- View 6: Golden lads all must by Hal Duncan
- View 7: Forfend the heavens' rending by Conrad Williams.
Copyright © 2008 by Jeff VanderMeer
Copyright © 2008 by Ann VanderMeer
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