The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Stories - Atlantic Books

This is an absolutely enormous collection of short stories – 110 of them spread over 1,100 pages. The pages have fairly small type, and are laid out in two columns on each page. It’s a big, chunky, heavy volume. It took about three months to read, although obviously it’s better to dip into than try to read cover to cover. A helpful introduction tries to define weird stories as those which contain supernatural elements but which don’t involve ghosts. This isn’t strictly adhered to in this book – there are a couple of ghost stories in here, and they rub shoulders with science fiction tales ... more