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The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories (2010)

by Jeff VanderMeer(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1848876874 (ISBN13: 9781848876873)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Corvus

review 1: if you like weird tales even a little bit you'll definitely find something you like in this compilation. there is A LOT of content here. there are 110 weird stories by an "all-star cast of literary legends" that takes you through early twentieth-century literature to present day. it's fun to see how weird fiction changes over that period of time, and also to start noticing influences. i didn't absolutely love every single story, but i enjoyed many more than i disliked and also discovered some real gems. i'm excited to come away with a better background in a type of fiction i'm really into, as well as a list of names i want to get to know better.
review 2: I saw this massive anthology sitting on the "new" shelf at Barnes & Noble early in the year. Flipping throu... moregh, it had so many of my favorite stories and a whole bunch I'd never heard of. Having earned my trust with previous Vandermeer anthologies, I bided my time for a Kindle version to come out as holding an almost 1200 page book night after night would be less than optimal, especially with the Bible-thin pages. It's formatted perfectly, unlike some other e-anthologies I've tried, with a nice blurb about the author prefacing each entry. The anthology is organized chronologically, so you can really get the ebb and flow of influences over time (ghost stories, Poe, Lovecraft, King, etc.) Every anthology must be missing something for readers to complain about. I found it odd the lack of Stanislaw Lem or Philip K. Dick. But it is hard to complain about an anthology that has pretty much a who's who of speculative fiction in it: Oates, King, Mieville, Gaiman, Barker, Butler, Kafka, Borges, Jackson, Chabon,. It even had a out-of-sorts SF story from George R.R. Martin that I kind of dug. I was turned on to numerous new writers as well. Highest recommendation. less

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