The Weird

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS

A landmark, eclectic, leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wilder, stranger, darker shores.

The Weird features an all star cast of authors, from classics to international bestsellers to prize winners:

Ben Okri

George R.R. Martin

Angela Carter

Kelly Link

Franz Kafka

China Miéville

Clive Barker

Haruki Murakami

M.R. James

Neil Gaiman

Mervyn Peake

Michael Chabon

Stephen King

Daphne Du Maurier

and more...

Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities; You will find the boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.



THE WEIRD has been compiled by

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Ann is the Hugo Award-winning editor of

Weird Tales magazine (founded 1923) and has worked with her husband Jeff on the World Fantasy Award-winning

Leviathan series of anthologies as well as on the genre-defining anthologies

The New Weird and

Steampunk. Jeff's novel

Finch (Corvus 2010) is currently shortlisted for the Hugo and Locus awards.