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Weird : A Compendium Of Dark And Strange Stories
Paperback Edition: 1/2011
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation and has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird and amongst its practitioners number some of the greatest names in
twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, 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. WEIRD features an all star cast authors, from classics to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners. Here are Ben Okri and Stephen King, George RR Martin and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Angela Carter and Kelly Link, Franz Kafka and China Mieville, Clive Barker and Haruki Murakami, M.R. James and Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake and Michael Chabon.
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Pages : 800
Publisher : Corvus
Publication date : 2011-11-01
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime / Thrillers, Historical Fiction