Contents

• Introduction:The new weird : "It’s alive?" /Jeff VanderMeer
• The luck in the head /M. John Harrison
• In the hills, the cities /Clive Barker
• Crossing into Cambodia /Michael Moorcock
• The braining of Mother Lamprey /Simon D. Ings
• The neglected garden / Kathe Koja
• A soft voice whispers nothing /Thomas Ligotti
• Jack /China Miéville
• Immolation / Jeffrey Thomas
• The lizard of ooze /Jay Lake
• Watson’s boy /Brian Evenson
• The art of dying / K.J. Bishop
• At Reparata /Jeffrey Ford
• Letters from Tainaron /Leena Krohn
• The ride of the Gabbleratchet /Steph Swainston
• The gutter sees the light that never shines /Alistair Rennie
• New weird discussions : the creation of a term
• "New weird" : I think we’re the scene /Michael Cisco
• Tracking phantoms -/Darja Malcolm-Clarke
• Whose words you wear /K.J. Bishop
• European editor perspectives on the new weird /Martin Sust …[et al]
• Festival lives : preamble /Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• |gView 1:Death in a dirty dhoti /Paul Di Filippo
• |gView 2:Cornflowers beside the unuttered /Cat Rambo
• |gView 3:All God’s chillun got wings /Sarah Monette
• |gView 4:Locust- mind /Daniel Abraham
• |gView 5:Constable Chalch and the ten thousand heroes /Felix Gilman
• |gView 6: Golden lads all must
• /Hal Duncan
• |gView 7: Forfend the heavens’ rending /Conrad Williams