VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (ed.) - The Weird / Вандермеер, Джефф и Энн (ред.) - "Странная" литература [2012, EPUB, ENG]

Foreweird by Michael Moorcock Introduction by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer The Other Side (excerpt) by Alfred Kubin The Screaming Skull / Кричащий череп by F. Marion Crawford The Willows / Ивы by Algernon Blackwood Sredni Vashtar / Средни Ваштар by Saki Casting the Runes / Заклятие рунами by M. R. James How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles / Как Нут практиковался на гнолах by Lord Dunsany The Man in the Bottle / Человек на бутылке by Gustav Meyrink The Dissection by Georg Heym The Spider / Паук by Hanns Heinz Ewers The Hungry Stones / Голодные камни by Rabindranath Tagore The Vegetable Man by Luigi Ugolini The People of the Pit / Племя из бездны by A. Merritt The Hell Screen / Муки ада by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Unseen—Unfeared / Увидеть невидимое by Francis Stevens In the Penal Colony / В исправительной колонии by Franz Kafka The White Wyrak / Белый вырак (Быль из жизни трубочистов) by Stefan Grabinski The Night Wire / Ночные сводки by H. F. Arnold The Dunwich Horror / Данвичский кошмар by H. P. Lovecraft The Book by Margaret Irwin The Mainz Psalter / «Майнцский псалтырь» by Jean Ray The Shadowy Street / Сумрачный переулок by Jean Ray Genius Loci by Clark Ashton Smith The Town of Cats by Hagiwara Sakutaro The Tarn / Тарн by Hugh Walpole Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass / Санатория под Клепсидрой by Bruno Schulz Far Below / Там, под землёй by Robert Barbour Johnson Smoke Ghost / Дымный призрак by Fritz Leiber White Rabbits / Белые кролики by Leonora Carrington Mimic / Мимикрия by Donald A. Wollheim The Crowd / Толпа by Ray Bradbury The Long Sheet by William Sansom The Aleph / Алеф by Jorge Luis Borges A Child in the Bush of Ghosts by Olympe Bhely-Quenum The Summer People / Летние люди by Shirley Jackson The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles by Margaret St. Clair The Hungry House / Голодный дом by Robert Bloch The Complete Gentleman by Amos Tutuola 'It's a Good Life' / Мы живём хорошо! by Jerome Bixby Mister Taylor by Augusto Monterroso Axolotl / Аксолотль by Julio Cortazar A Woman Seldom Found / Редкостная женщина by William Sansom The Howling Man by Charles Beaumont Same Time, Same Place / Там же, тогда же by Mervyn Peake The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos The Salamander by Merce Rodoreda The Ghoulbird by Claude Seignolle The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be / Вода была мокра насквозь ... by Gahan Wilson Don't Look Now / Не оглядывайся by Daphne du Maurier The Hospice by Robert Aickman It Only Comes Out at Night / Оно появляется только ночью by Dennis Etchison The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats by James Tiptree, Jr. The Beak Doctor by Eric Basso My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid Sandkings / Короли-пустынники by George R. R. Martin Window / Окно by Bob Leman The Brood / Выводок by Ramsey Campbell The Autopsy / Вскрытие by Michael Shea The Belonging Kind / Принадлежность by John Shirley and William Gibson Egnaro by M. John Harrison The Little Dirty Girl by Joanna Russ The New Rays by M. John Harrison The Discovery of Telenapota by Premendra Mitra Soft by F. Paul Wilson Bloodchild / Мы все — одна семья... by Octavia E. Butler In the Hills, the Cities / Холмы, города by Clive Barker Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands by Garry Kilworth Shades by Lucius Shepard The Function of Dream Sleep / Функция сна by Harlan Ellison Worlds That Flourish by Ben Okri The Boy in the Tree by Elizabeth Hand Family by Joyce Carol Oates His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood / Вкус полыни by Poppy Z. Brite The End of the Garden / Там, где кончается сад by Michal Ajvaz The Dark by Karen Joy Fowler Angels in Love by Kathe Koja The Ice Man / Ледяной человек by Haruki Murakami Replacements / Подмена by Lisa Tuttle The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio by Marc Laidlaw The Country Doctor by Steven Utley Last Rites and Resurrections by Martin Simpson The Ocean and All Its Devices by William Browning Spencer The Delicate by Jeffrey Ford The Man in the Black Suit / Человек в чёрном костюме by Stephen King The Snow Pavilion by Angela Carter The Meat Garden by Craig Padawer The Stiff and the Stile by Stepan Chapman Yellow and Red by Tanith Lee The Specialist's Hat / Шляпа Специалиста by Kelly Link A Redress for Andromeda by Caitlin R. Kiernan The God of Dark Laughter / Бог тёмного смеха by Michael Chabon Details / Детали by China Mieville The Genius of Assassins: Three Dreams of Murder in the First Person by Michael Cisco Feeders and Eaters / Едоки и кормильцы by Neil Gaiman The Cage / Клетка by Jeff VanderMeer The Beautiful Gelreesh by Jeffrey Ford The Town Manager / Городской управляющий by Thomas Ligotti The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson The White Hands by Mark Samuels Flat Diane by Daniel Abraham Singing My Sister Down / Отпевание сестрёнки by Margo Lanagan The People on the Island by T. M. Wright The Forest by Laird Barron The Hide by Liz Williams Dust Enforcer by Reza Negarestani The Familiars by Micaela Morrissette The Lion's Den by Steve Duffy Little Lambs by Stephen Graham Jones The Portal by J. Robert Lennon Saving the Gleeful Horse by K. J. Bishop Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary by China Mieville

The Summer People

Shirley Jackson

The Allisons’ country cottage, seven miles from the nearest town, was set prettily on a hill; from three sides it looked down on soft trees and grass that seldom, even at midsummer, lay still and dry. On the fourth side was the lake, which touched against the wooden pier the Allisons had to keep repairing, and which looked equally well from the Allisons’ front porch, their side porch or any spot on the wooden staircase leading from the porch down to the water. Although the Allisons loved their summer cottage, looked forward to arriving in the early summer and hated to leave in the fall, they had not troubled themselves to put in any improvements, regarding the cottage itself and the lake as improvement enough for the life left to them. The cottage had no heat, no running water except the precarious supply from the backyard pump and no electricity. For seventeen summers, Janet Allison had cooked on a kerosene stove, heating all their water; Robert Allison had brought buckets full of water daily from the pump and read his paper by kerosene light in the evenings and they had both, sanitary city people, become stolid and matter-of-fact about their backhouse. In the first two years they had gone through all the standard vaudeville and magazine jokes about backhouses and by now, when they no longer had frequent guests to impress, they had subsided to a comfortable security which made the backhouse, as well as the pump and the kerosene, an indefinable asset to their summer life. In themselves, the Allisons were ordinary people. Mrs. Allison was fifty-eight years old and Mr. Allison sixty; they had seen their children outgrow the summer cottage and go on to families of their own and seashore resorts; their friends were either dead or settled in comfortable year-round houses, their nieces and nephews vague. In the winter they told one another they could stand their New York apartment while waiting for the summer; in the summer they told one another that the winter was well worth while, waiting to get to the country. . . .