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A review by scheu
The New Weird by
5.0
This may be the best collection I've read in a decade.
I'd been through Mieville and Vandermeer, cut my teeth on Lovecraft, a pile of slipstream, Barker, but I didn't feel as though I had much of a handle on what "New Weird" was or why I was drawn to it. Boy, I loved every story in this volume, including the oddly vulgar Rennie story at the end. Perhaps if slipstream makes you feel 'a little strange' (and the _Feeling Very Strange_ anthology would make a nice companion to this book), New Weird makes you feel EXTREMELY STRANGE, as well as dizzy, unsettled and slightly queasy. I recommend this collection to anyone with a passing fancy for any of the writers therein.
I'd been through Mieville and Vandermeer, cut my teeth on Lovecraft, a pile of slipstream, Barker, but I didn't feel as though I had much of a handle on what "New Weird" was or why I was drawn to it. Boy, I loved every story in this volume, including the oddly vulgar Rennie story at the end. Perhaps if slipstream makes you feel 'a little strange' (and the _Feeling Very Strange_ anthology would make a nice companion to this book), New Weird makes you feel EXTREMELY STRANGE, as well as dizzy, unsettled and slightly queasy. I recommend this collection to anyone with a passing fancy for any of the writers therein.