Search Worlds Without End

Acclaimed author Kathe Koja brings her expert eye and editorial sense to the second volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. Contributing authors include Julio Cortazar, Jean Muno, Karen Joy Fowler, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Nick Mamatas, Carmen Maria Machado, Nathan Ballingrud, and more. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly derived from early 20th-century pulp fiction, its remit includes ghost stories, the strange and macabre, the supernatural, fantasy, myth, philosophical ontology, ambiguity, and a healthy helping of the outre. At its best, weird fiction is an intersecting of themes and ideas that explore and subvert the Laws of Nature. It is not confined to one genre, but is the most diverse and welcoming of all genres.

Table of Contents:

• Forward - essay by Michael Kelly
• At Home With the Weird - essay by Kathe Koja
• The Atlas of Hell - (2014) - shortfiction by Nathan Ballingrud
• Wendigo Nights - (2014) - shortfiction by Siobhan Carroll
• Headache - (2014) - shortstory by Julio Cortázar (trans. of Cefalea 1951)
• Loving Armageddon - shortfiction by Amanda C. Davis
• The Earth and Everything Under - (2014) - shortfiction by K. M. Ferebee
• Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story - (2013) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Girls Who Go Below - (2014) - shortstory by Cat Hellisen
• Nine - (2014) - shortfiction by Kima Jones
• Bus Fare - (2014) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Air We Breathe Is Stormy, Stormy - (2014) - shortstory by Rich Larson
• The Husband Stitch - (2014) - novelette by Carmen Maria Machado
• Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa - (2014) - shortstory by Carmen Maria Machado
• Resurrection Points - (2014) - shortstory by Usman T. Malik
• Exit Through the Gift Shop - (2014) - shortstory by Nick Mamatas
• So Sharp That Blood Must Flow - (2014) - shortstory by Sunny Moraine
• The Ghoul - shortfiction by Jean Muno
• A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide - (2014) - shortstory by Sarah Pinsker
• Migration - (2014) - shortstory by Karin Tidbeck
• Hidden in the Alphabet - (2014) - shortfiction by Charles Wilkinson
• A Cup of Salt Tears - (2014) - shortstory by Isabel Yap