Weird #59: “The Belonging Kind” by William Gibson and John Shirley (1981)
Antoinette walks from bar to bar around town, everywhere from clubs to discos, and never wears the same body twice.
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Weird #58: “The Autopsy” by Michael Shea (1980)
In which a doctor, examining a corpse in anatomically precise detail, discovers a parasite from outer space animating a human corpse.
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Weird #57: “The Brood” by Ramsay Campbell (1980)
A man looks out his window after a tough day at work and notices something he shouldn’t.
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Weird #56: “Window” by Bob Leman (1980)
A window into another dimensions opens up a nostalgic view of another world, but not is all as it seems.
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Weird #55: “Sandkings” by George R. R. Martin (1979)
An animal rights abuser gets his just deserts
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Weird #54: “My Mother” by Jamaica Kincaid (1977)
A surrealist story about a mother and a daughter who undergo transformation
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Weird #53: “The Beak Doctor” by Eric Basso (1977)
A Joycean jaunt through a foggy city plagued by sleeping sickness
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Weird #52: “The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rats” by James Triptree, Jr. (1976)
A harrowing tale questions why science can be so cruel to animals
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Weird #51: “It Only Comes Out At Night” by Dennis Etchison (1976)
The story of one lonely drive down a blistering desert highway.
Keep readingGoing on a Four-Week Hiatus
The Archaeologies of Weird Fiction Project will be going on a four-week posting hiatus starting today. This will enable me to focus on finishing my novel draft and to give me more time to build a backlog of scheduled posts. Weekly posts will resume July 25th, beginning with “It Only Comes Out at Night” by Dennis Etchison. I have reached…
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About Me
I’m Matthew Rettino, a speculative fiction writer from Montreal, Canada. In my Archaeologies of Weird Fiction project, I am reviewing all 110 stories contained in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s massive anthology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories.
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