Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories: A New Edition with Four New Stories

A New Edition with Four New Stories WELCOME TO THE WEIRD, WEIRD, WEIRD, WEIRD WORLD OF JOHN SHIRLEY… How deep into the weird will you go? Will you wade to your knees? Your waist? Your shoulders? Will you get in over your head? This truly unique story collection from the acclaimed and unsettling John Shirley is organized into four sections. The first section is Really Weird Stories . The second is Really, Really Weird Stories . The third is Really, Really, Really Weird Stories . The fourth is—oh yes— Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories . And the author means what he says: each section is weirder than the last, doubling its strangeness a section at a time. The collection starts out disquieting; it becomes disturbing, then it gets outrageously weird—then mind-bending . Yet each story is a compelling narrative. Some of the stories are set in the “real world;” others have a supernatural or science-fiction basis, or come from a place where genres are destroyed by explosive vision. In this edition there are four new stories , including the Lovecraftian Antarctic adventure “A Boy and His Shoggoth,” and, published here for the first time, “The Whisperer Made Visible”—a tale of secret treaties with horrors eldritch and invisible. This updated edition of Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories is one of the most impressive feats of sustained and varied weirdness since Harlan Ellison’s landmark Dangerous Visions anthologies. Your mind is strong. Take the risk… “”A landmark collection from one of speculative fiction’s wildest and greatest talents. What a joy to see it back in print!”” — PETER ATKINS , best-selling author of Morningstar and screenwriter of Hellraiser II, III and IV “Another virtuoso offering from a writer whose daring and originality continue to astonish.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review of the original edition “Byronic gangster John Shirley’s singular work is distinguished by swans and knives of prose; divine menace… The many addicted to Shirley’s stunning work savor it as ground zero of the real deal; grace and sodium pentothal that autopsy and awaken; his voice shifting from satirical heresy, to heartache”” — RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON , Author of Dystopia and Zoopraxis “”John Shirley is an adventurer, returning home from dark and troubled regions with visionary tales to tell. . . . I heartily recommend a journey with John Shirley at your side.”” — CLIVE BARKER “One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas and imagery.” — WILLIAM GIBSON , Author of Neuromancer “John Shirley pulls no punches.” — NORMAN SPINRAD , Author of Child of Fortune “Readers who enjoy living a little dangerously are likely to appreciate the sheer headlong exuberance of Shirley’s imagination.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “Astonishingly consistent and rigorously horrifying. All his stories give off the chill of top-grade horror.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES “Snapping, snarling, vigorously wrought drama. Shirley writes splendid stuff.” — KIRKUS REVIEWS “Everybody’s favorite genre outlaw.” — INTERZONE – ASIN: 1956702067 | ISBN13: 9781956702064 | ISBN-13: 978-1956702064