Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • The New Weird: "It's Alive?" • essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• 5 • The Luck in the Head • [Viriconium] • (1984) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• 29 • In the Hills, the Cities • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 63 • Crossing into Cambodia: A Story of the Third World War • short story by Michael Moorcock (variant of Crossing into Cambodia 1979)
• 81 • The Braining of Mother Lamprey • (1990) • novelette by Simon Ings [as by Simon D. Ings]
• 109 • The Neglected Garden • (1991) • short story by Kathe Koja
• 117 • A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing • (1997) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 129 • Jack • [New Crobuzon] • (2005) • short story by
  China Miéville^?China Mieville
• 141 • Immolation • (2000) • short story by Jeffrey Thomas
• 159 • The Lizard of Ooze • (2005) • short story by Jay Lake
• 175 • Watson's Boy • (2000) • novelette by Brian Evenson
• 207 • The Art of Dying • (1997) • short story by K. J. Bishop
• 225 • At Reparata • (1999) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• 253 • Letters from Tainaron (An Excerpt from the Short Novel Tainaron) • short story by Leena Krohn (trans. of Tainaron (excerpt) unpublished)
• 263 • The Ride of the Gabbleratchet • short story by Steph Swainston
• 287 • The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines • short story by Alistair Rennie
• 317 • New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• 333 • "New Weird": I Think We're the Scene • essay by Michael Cisco
• 337 • Tracking Phantoms • essay by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
• 345 • Whose Words You Wear • essay by K. J. Bishop
• 349 • European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "Creating the New Weird to Work for Us" • essay by
  Martin Šust^?Martin Sust
  [as by Martin Sust]
• 352 • European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "The New Weird Treachery" • essay by
  Michael Haulică^?Michael Haulica
  [as by Michael Haulica]
• 353 • European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "There is No New Weird" • essay by Hannes Riffel
• 355 • European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "Blurring the Lines" • essay by Jukka Halme
• 359 • European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird: "The Uncleaned Kettle" • essay by Konrad Walewski
• 365 • Festival Lives: The New Weird Round Robin • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• 365 • Festival Lives, View 1: Death in a Dirty Dhoti • short fiction by Paul Di Filippo
• 375 • Festival Lives, View 2: Cornflowers Beside the Unuttered • short fiction by Cat Rambo
• 379 • Festival Lives, View 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings • short fiction by Sarah Monette
• 382 • Festival Lives, View 4: Locust-Mind • short fiction by Daniel Abraham
• 385 • Festival Lives, View 5: Constable Chalch and the Ten Thousand Heroes • short fiction by Felix Gilman
• 391 • Festival Lives, View 6: Golden Lads All Must... • short fiction by Hal Duncan
• 398 • Festival Lives, View 7: Forfend the Heavens' Rending • short fiction by Conrad Williams
• 405 • Recommended Reading (The New Weird) • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• 409 • Biographical Notes (The New Weird) • essay by uncredited