Scott Nicolay

This Modern Horror fiction collection is the first by Scott Nicolay. Not for the faint of heart, these raw, shocking, chilling tales will keep the reader looking around for just what common object, place, or event will suddenly drift into unexplained weirdness. With an Introduction by Laird Barron and Afterword by John Pelan.

Tales of the Outer the Other the Damned and the Doomed

Ana Kai Tangata

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Ford

Chen Qiufan

Sofia Samatar

Paul Tremblay

Maria Dahvana Headley

Michael Blumlein

John Langan

Karin Tidbeck

Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

A.C Wise

Richard Gavin

John R. Fultz

Anne-Sylvie Salzman

Livia Llewellyn

Anna Taborska

Damien Angelica Walters

Kristie DeMeester

Simon Stranzas

W.H. Pugmire

Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly derived from early 20th-century pulp fiction, its remit includes ghost stories, the strange and macabre, the supernatural, fantasy, myth, philosophical ontology, ambiguity, and a healthy helping of the outré. At its best, weird fiction is an intersecting of themes and ideas that explore and subvert the Laws of Nature. It is not confined to one genre, but is the most diverse and welcoming of all genres. Hence, in this initial showcase of weird fiction you will discover tales of horror, fantasy, science fiction, the supernatural, and the macabre. Contributing authors include Jeffrey Ford, Sofia Samatar, Joseph S. Pulver Sr, John Langan, Richard Gavin, and W. H. Pugmire.

Year's Best Weird Fiction

Noctuidae

Laird Barron

Christopher Slatsky

T. Grau

Timothy Jarvis

"Die New Weird ist tot, es lebe die Next Weird." - Jeff VanderMeer -Nighttrain: Next Weird präsentiert sechs Erzählungen und zwei Artikel zeitgenössischer Meister der Weird Tale. In der modernen Tradition von Thomas Ligotti über Kathe Koja, bis hin zu Laird Barron ist Weird Fiction weit über das Erbe Lovecrafts und der Pulp-Ära hinaus gewachsen. Laird Barron, Richard Gavin, T.E. Grau, Timoths J. Jarvis, Christopher Slatsky und Scott Nicolay umreißen mit ihrem bis auf einige Erzählungen Barrons im deutschsprachigen Raum bislang unveröffentlichten Werk eine Literatur des kosmischen Horror und verstörender Seltsamkeiten, die im gegenwärtigen Jahrtausend einen Höhenflug erfährt.Ein Schrei durchdringt Boyds Welt der Megabürokomplexe und stellt alle Ordnung auf den Kopf; das Leben eines Bruders stellt sich als gefährlich obsessiv heraus; über einen Schacht hinweg hört man verstörende Gespräche; der Geheimdienst weiß auch nichts davon, was wirklich in der Welt vorgeht; ein Hahnenkampf wird zu etwas ganz anderem und auf dem Newington Green kann man in einen Blick auf fremde Dimensionen werfen. Der Poetik der Weird Fiction und der Bedeutung der Weird Renaissance gehen Timothy J. Jarvis und Scott Nicolay nach; ein eingehendes Vorwort und eine Literaturliste laden zur weiterführenden Lektüre ein.

Nighttrain: Next Weird

Jean Ray

Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a knock on the door of a hut in the middle of an isolated bog; a lane in Rotterdam perceptible to only one inhabitant in the city. In Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray began to fully explore the trappings of the ghost story to produce a new brand of horror tale: one that described the lineaments of a universe adjacent to this one, in which objects sweat hatred and fear, and where the individual must face the unknown in utter isolation. First published in 1931, two years after he served his prison sentence for embezzling funds for his literary magazine, Ray's second story collection failed to find the success of his first one, Whiskey Tales, but has emerged over the years as a key publication in the Belgian School of the Strange. It has remained unavailable in its integral form even in French until recently, however, though it contains some of Ray's most anthologized and celebrated stories, including two of his best known, "The Mainz Psalter" and "The Shadowy Alley." This is the book's first English translation, and the second of the volumes of Ray's books to be published by Wakefield Press. Alternately referred to as the "Belgian Poe" and the "Flemish Jack London," Jean Ray(1887-1964) delivered tales of horror under the stylistic influence of his most cherished authors, Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer. A pivotal figure in what has come to be known as the "Belgian School of the Strange," Ray authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime.

Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

Cruise of Shadows

Brian Evenson

Sunny Moraine

Lucy A. Snyder

Daniel Mills

Kaaron Warren

Michael Cisco

Simon Strantzas

Nadia Bulkin

Gemma Files

Craig Laurance Gidney

Brooke Warra

Michael Wehunt

Kristi DeMeester

Michael Griffin

Betty Rocksteady

S. P. Miskowski

Lisa L. Hannett

Kurt Fawver

Anya Martin

LOOMING LOW presents 26 wondrous and unsettling tales that represent some of the best writing from the new golden age of strange literature. Featuring brand new stories from: Nadia Bulkin, Michael Cisco, Kristi DeMeester, Brian Evenson, Kurt Fawver, Gemma Files, Richard Gavin, Craig Laurance Gidney, Michael Griffin, Lisa L. Hannett, Livia Llewellyn, Anya Martin, Daniel Mills, S.P. Miskowski, Sunny Moraine, Scott Nicolay, Betty Rocksteady, Christopher Slatsky, Lucy A. Snyder, Simon Strantzas, Jeffrey Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, Brooke Warra, Kaaron Warren, Michael Wehunt, and A.C. Wise.

Looming Low

Scott Nicolay

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