ODD?, a new anthology series devoted to eclectic fiction, usually with a fantastical, horrific, magic realist, or surrealist approach. You might also call it strange or even weird. But as the subtitle of “Is it odd or are you too normal?” suggests, “odd” is a truly subjective evaluation. One person’s “what the heck?!” is another person’s “eh—saw that yesterday.”
Each volume will contain reprints (some of them not available otherwise except in expensive limited editions), previously unpublished stories, and new translations of classic and hard-to-find stories. We are committed to bringing you odd material from all over the world, from the past one hundred years, all of it bound together simply by dint of being idiosyncratic, unusual, out-of-the-ordinary.
Here's the full table of contents:
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer - Introduction
Amos Tutuola - "The Dead Babies"
Gustave Le Rouge - "The War of the Vampires" (translation by Brian Evenson and David Beus)
Jeffrey Ford - "Weiroot"
Leopoldo Lugones - "The Bloat Toad" (translation by Larry Nolen)
Mark Samuels - "Apt 205"
Michael Cisco - "Modern Cities Exist Only to Be Destroyed"
Nalo Hopkinson - "Slow Cold Chick"
Sumanth Prabhaker - "A Hard Truth About Waste Management"
Hiromi Goto - "Stinky Girl"
Eric Basso - "Logues"
Edward Morris - "Lotophagi"
Karin Tidbeck - "The Aunts"
Jeffrey Thomas - "The Fork"
Rikki Ducornet - "The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi”
Leena Krohn – “The Night of the Normal Distribution Curve” (translation by Anna Volmari and J. Robert Tupasela)
Amanda le Bas de Plumetot - "Unmaking"
Karl Hans Strobl - "The Head" (translation by Gio Clairval)
Caitlin R. Kiernan - "A Child's Guide to the Hollow Hills"
Stacey Levine - "Sausage"
Danny Fontaine & Jeff VanderMeer – “Myster Odd Theme Song”
