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Index
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Dedication
Monstrous? Creatures? (Introduction)
MONSTROUS THOUGHTS
The Third Bear
I.
II.
III.
The Language of Defeat
An Anvil Is Not an Artichoke
The Romantic Underground
Politics in Fantasy
The Triumph of the Good
The New Weird—"It's Alive?”
Origins
The Shift
Flash Point
The Debate
Effects in the “Real” World
A Working Definition of the New Weird
This Anthology
Conversation #1: China Mieville and the Monsters
APPRECIATIONS OF THE MONSTROUS
Prague: City of Fantasy
Catherynne M. Valente's The Labyrinth
Two Members of the Shadow Cabinet:Batchelor and McNaughton
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2
Making Her Own Light: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Unsung Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Stuart Gordon: Victim of the New Age Fad?
Rikki Ducornet: Invisible to Genre Readers?
Rhys Hughes: Hurt by His Devotion to Short Fiction?
L. Timmel Duchamp: Too Daring for Her Own Good?
My Additional Misadventures with Engelbrecht
Alasdair Gray and Lanark
My Love-Hate Relationship with Clark Ashton-Smith
Lost Worlds
Out of Space & Time
Lovecraft Art: The Link BetweenTentacles and Cosmic SF
Alfred Kubin and the Tortured Triumph of The Other Side
The "Black Books" of Derek Raymond
1. Experiencing the Factory Novels
2. The Pathology of Dead Man Upright
A Giant of Literature, J.G. Ballard
The Cosmology of Jeffrey Ford
Five Years of Sfar and Trondheim’s Dungeon Series
How to Raise and Keep an Imagination:Joseph Nigg and the Power of Fantasy
Authors in Praise of Beer
1. Light Beers, Lambics, Arrogant Bastard, and More!
2. Continuing a Good Thought with Pale Ale, Guinness, and More
Conversation #2: Eaten by Bears—Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels
INTERROGATING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONSTERS
Prague Reimagined:
The Perils and Triumphs of Transformation:China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun
Two New Anthology Series, Two Views of Comics
The Best American Comics guest edited by Harvey Pekar
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories, edited by Ivan Brunetti
Tove Jansson’s Moomin Comics
Bittersweet Fantasy: Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper
Dream Worlds: David B.’s Nocturnal Conspiracies
Silence and Aversion: J. Robert Lennon’s Castle
Stairs to Nowhere: House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Future Past: Brian Francis Slattery’s Liberation
Not Good at Dying: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen
Re-envisioning the West: Emma Bull’s Territory
Hollywood Punk: Steve Erickson’s Zeroville
Exchange Students Plot to Take Over America:Chuck Palahniuk’s Pygmy
Looking for Love: Alexander Theroux’s Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual
The Lost Girls of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
London’s Last Stand: Jonathan Barnes’ The Domino Men
The Newt Speaks Volumes: Jack O’Connell’s The Resurrectionist
Not Enough Bite: Victor Pelevin’s The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Hot Ice: Marcel Theroux’s Far North
Philosophy in Fiction’s Clothing:Neal Stephenson’s Anathem
The Books of the Decade
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2008)
What It Is by Lynda Barry (2008)
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2007)
2666 by Robert Bolanos (2008)
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
About Writing: 7 Essays, 4 Letters, and 5 Interviews by Samuel Delany (2006)
One Day the Ice Will Reveal All of Its Dead by Clare Dudman (2004)
Zeroville by Steve Erickson (2007)
The Book of Prefaces by Alasdair Gray (2000)
Light by M. John Harrison (2002)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1976, 2008)
Tainaron by Leena Krohn (2004)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
Dungeon Twilight, Vols. 1 and 2: Dragon Cemetery and Armageddon by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim (2006)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (2006)
Far North by Marcel Theroux (2009)
The Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa Thingo (2007)
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi (2004)
Rising Up, Rising Down by William T. Vollman (2004)
The Jerusalem Quartet by Edward Whittemore (1977-1987/2002)
Conversation #3: The Monstrous Capybara of Austin Texas
PERSONAL MONSTERS
The Hannukah Bear
Fantasy and the Imagination
My Father’s Pipe
The Novella: A Personal Exploration
Two Essays on Hiking
Inspiration (Together)
The Unknown and the Luminous (Alone)
Reading suggestions
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