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The weird : a compendium of strange and dark stories

Call Number

  • FICTION WEIR (CEN)

Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Tor, 2012, c2011.

Physical Description

xx, 1126 p. ; 25 cm.

Notes

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

First published: Great Britain : Corvus, 2011.

Contents

  • Foreweird / Introduction / The other side (excerpt) / The screaming skull / The willows / Sredni Vashtar / Casting the runes / How Nuth would have practised his art upon the Gnoles / The man in the bottle / The dissection / The spider / The hungry stones / The vegetable man / The people of the pit / The hell screen / Unseen-- unfeared / In the penal colony / The white wyrak / The night wire / The Dunwich horror / The book / The Mainz Psalter / The shadowy street / Genius loci / The town of cats / The tarn / Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass / Far below / Smoke ghost / White rabbits / Mimic / The crowd / The long sheet
  • The aleph / A child in the bush of ghosts / The summer people / The man who sold rope to the Gnoles / The hungry house / The complete gentleman / "It's a good life" / Mister Taylor / Axolotl / A woman seldom found / The howling man / Same time, same place / The Colomber / The other side of the mountain / The salamander / The ghoulbird / The sea was wet as wet could be / Don't look now / The hospice / It only comes out at night / The psychologist who wouldn't do awful things to rats
  • The beak doctor / My mother / Sandkings / Window / The brood / The autopsy / The belonging kind / Egnaro / The dirty little girl / The new rays / The discovery of Telanapota / Soft / Bloodchild / In the hills, the cities / Tainaron: mail from another city / Hogfoot right and Bird-hands / Shades / The function of dream sleep / Worlds that flourish / The boy in the tree / Family / His mouth will taste of Wormwood / The end of the garden / The dark / Angels in love / The ice man
  • Repacements / The Diane Arbus suicide portfolio / The country doctor / Last rites and resurrections / The ocean and all its devices / The delicate / The man in the black suit / The snow pavilion / The meat garden / The stiff and the stile / Yellow and red / The specialist's hat / A redress for Andromeda / The god of dark laughter / Details / The genius of assassins / Feeders and eaters / The cage / The beautiful Gelreesh / The town manager / The brotherhood of mutilation / The white hands / Flat Diane / Singing my sister down / The people on the island / The forest / The hide / Dust enforcer / The familiars / The lion's den / Little lambs / Saving the gleeful horse / Afterweird

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