…this autumnal being with her November irises could arouse desire.
— Salvador Dali (Hidden Faces)
Jeff VanderMeer’s retrospective about this real-time review: HERE
The review’s index below.
The WEIRD (1) (2 November 11)
Alfred Kubin, “The Other Side” (excerpt), 1908 (translation, Austria)
F. Marion Crawford, “The Screaming Skull,” 1908
Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows,” 1907
Saki, “Sredni Vashtar,” 1910
M.R. James, “Casting the Runes,” 1911
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Lord Dunsany, “How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art,” 1912
Gustav Meyrink, “The Man in the Bottle,” 1912 (translation, Austria)
Georg Heym, “The Dissection,” 1913 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Germany)
Hans Heinz Ewers, “The Spider,” 1915 (translation, Germany)
Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hungry Stones,” 1916 (India)
Luigi Ugolini, “The Vegetable Man,” 1917 (new translation by Anna and Brendan Connell, Italy; first-ever translation into English)
A. Merritt, “The People of the Pit,” 1918
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “The Hell Screen,” 1918 (new translation, Japan)
Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), “Unseen—Unfeared,” 1919
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Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” 1919 (translation, German/Czech)
Stefan Grabinski, “The White Wyrak,” 1921 (translation, Poland)
H.F. Arnold, “The Night Wire,” 1926
H.P. Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror,” 1929
Margaret Irwin, “The Book,” 1930
Jean Ray, “The Mainz Psalter,” 1930 (translation, Belgium)
Jean Ray, “The Shadowy Street,” 1931 (translation, Belgium)
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Clark Ashton Smith, “Genius Loci,” 1933
Hagiwara Sakutoro, “The Town of Cats,” 1935 (translation, Japan)
Hugh Walpole, “The Tarn,” 1936
Bruno Schulz, “Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass,” 1937 (translation, Poland)
Robert Barbour Johnson, “Far Below,” 1939
Fritz Leiber, “Smoke Ghost,” 1941
Leonora Carrington, “White Rabbits,” 1941
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Donald Wollheim, “Mimic,” 1942
Ray Bradbury, “The Crowd,” 1943
William Sansom, “The Long Sheet,” 1944
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph,” 1945 (translation, Argentina)
Olympe Bhely-Quenum, “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts,” 1949 (Benin)
Shirley Jackson, “The Summer People,” 1950
Margaret St. Clair, “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles,” 1951
Robert Bloch, “The Hungry House,” 1951
Amos Tutuola, “The Complete Gentleman,” 1952 (Nigeria)
Jerome Bixby, “It’s a Good Life,” 1953
Augusto Monterroso, “Mister Taylor,” 1954 (new translation by Larry Nolen, Guatemala)
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Julio Cortazar, “Axolotl,” 1956 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Argentina)
William Sansom, “A Woman Seldom Found,” 1956
Charles Beaumont, “The Howling Man,” 1959
Mervyn Peake, “Same Time, Same Place,” 1963
Dino Buzzati, “The Colomber,” 1966 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Italy)
Michel Bernanos, “The Other Side of the Mountain,” 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France)
Merce Rodoreda, “The Salamander,” 1967 (translation, Catalan)
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Claude Seignolle, “The Ghoulbird,” 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France)
Gahan Wilson, “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be,” 1967
Daphne Du Maurier, “Don’t Look Now,” 1971
Robert Aickman, “The Hospice,” 1975
Dennis Etchison, “It Only Comes Out at Night,” 1976
James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), “The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Terrible Things to Rats,” 1976
Eric Basso, “The Beak Doctor,” 1977
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Jamaica Kincaid, “Mother,” 1978 (Antigua and Barbuda/US)
George R.R. Martin, “Sandkings,” 1979
Bob Leman, “Window,” 1980
Ramsey Campbell, “The Brood,” 1980
Michael Shea, “The Autopsy,” 1980
William Gibson/John Shirley, “The Belonging Kind,” 1981
M. John Harrison, “Egnaro,” 1981
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Joanna Russ, “The Little Dirty Girl,” 1982
M. John Harrison, “The New Rays,” 1982
Premendra Mitra, “The Discovery of Telenapota,” 1984 (translation, India)
F. Paul Wilson, “Soft,” 1984
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Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild,” 1984
Clive Barker, “In the Hills, the Cities,” 1984
Leena Krohn, “Tainaron,” 1985 (translation, Finland)
Garry Kilworth, “Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands,” 1987
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Lucius Shepard, “Shades,” 1987
Harlan Ellison, “The Function of Dream Sleep,” 1988
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Ben Okri, “Worlds That Flourish,” 1988 (Nigeria)
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Elizabeth Hand, “The Boy in the Tree,” 1989
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Joyce Carol Oates, “Family,” 1989
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Poppy Z Brite, “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood,” 1990
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Michal Ajvaz, “The End of the Garden,” 1991 (translation, Czech)
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Karen Joy Fowler, “The Dark,” 1991
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Kathe Koja, “Angels in Love,” 1991
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Haruki Murakami, “The Ice Man,” 1991 (translation, Japan)
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Lisa Tuttle, “Replacements,” 1992
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Marc Laidlaw, “The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio,” 1993
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Steven Utley, “The Country Doctor,” 1993
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Martin Simpson, “Last Rites and Resurrections,” 1994
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William Browning Spencer, “The Ocean and All Its Devices,” 1994
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Jeffrey Ford, “The Delicate,” 1994
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Stephen King, “The Man in the Black Suit,” 1994
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Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion,” 1995
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Craig Padawer, “The Meat Garden,” 1996
Stepan Chapman, “The Stiff and the Stile,” 1997
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Tanith Lee, “Yellow and Red,” 1998
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Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat,” 1998
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Caitlin R. Kiernan, “A Redress for Andromeda,” 2000
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Michael Chabon, “The God of Dark Laughter,” 2001
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China Mieville, “Details,” 2002
Michael Cisco, “The Genius of Assassins,” 2002
Neil Gaiman, “Feeders and Eaters,” 2002
Jeff VanderMeer, “The Cage,” 2002
Jeffrey Ford, “The Beautiful Gelreesh,” 2003
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Thomas Ligotti, “The Town Manager,” 2003
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Brian Evenson, “The Brotherhood of Mutilation,” 2003
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Mark Samuels, “The White Hands,” 2003
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Daniel Abraham, “Flat Diane,” 2004
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Margo Lanagan, “Singing My Sister Down,” 2005 (Australia)
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T.M. Wright, “The People on the Island,” 2005
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Laird Barron, “The Forest,” 2007
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Liz Williams, “The Hide,” 2007
Reza Negarestani, “The Dust Enforcer,” 2008 (Iran)
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Micaela Morrissette, “The Familiars,” 2009
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Steve Duffy, “The Lion’s Den,” 2009
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Stephen Graham Jones, “Little Lambs,” 2009
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The WEIRD (45) (3 December 11)
K.J. Bishop, “Saving the Gleeful Horse,” 2010 (Australia)
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[There is also another real time review currently being conducted – here by Maureen Kincaid Speller]
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My reappraisal of the Michael Cisco story above: https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/the-genius-of-assassins-three-dreams-of-murder-in-the-first-person-michael-cisco/
My reappraisal of the Jeffrey Ford story above:
https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/the-beautiful-gelreesh-jeffrey-ford/
https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/dust-enforcer-reza-negarestani/
My reappraisal of the Reza Negarestani story above.
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http://jhstevens.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/the-weirdness-addendum/ explains a lot about my own cited ‘pigging’ and having to reappraise (weeks later) at least three of the stories.
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https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-stiff-and-the-stile-stepan-chapman/
My final re-appraisal of a story in ‘The WEIRD’.
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Regarding the various websites that I use for my real-time reviews, I try to make venues appropriate to the type of review being placed on them. Having said that, I feel justified in using my various book sites etc. for my real-time review venues (as a spin-off marketing) because I have always bought the books I review, i.e. as a normal customer (or, very rarely, it’s a contributor copy or exchanged it for another book). My over-riding love however is actually in doing the real-time reviews themselves for my own creative reading satisfaction, which, as merely another spin-off, hopefully benefits all the good literature I choose to review.
https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/the-revamenders-upon-the-ives-of-november/
Quoted from HERE, regarding my massive review of the massive THE WEIRD ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
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“I discovered recently that Des Lewis’s monster ‘real-time review’ of every single story in ‘The Weird’ is now available in book form from Lulu.
Real-Time Reviews – Volume Six by D F Lewis (Paperback) – Lulu
As fans of his reviewing will know, DFL is very astute at highlighting correspondences, subtexts and ‘gestalts’ between the stories, both real and metaphysical, and I’ve revisited several of them on the back of these reviews simply because he made me realise that I had overlooked some of the deeper themes on first reading.
If you’re like me and ‘The Weird’ will reside on the beside table to be read and reread for years to come, then I can wholeheartedly recommend Des’s little book as a useful ‘unoffical companion’ to this peerless anthology.”
Johnny Mains just called this: “The greatest review of any book in the history of reviews” on his Facebook timeline.
Lawks-a-mercy! Thanks, Johnny. 🙂