Status Updates From The Weird: A Compendium of ...

The Meat Garden by Craig Padawer (1996)- A surreal story about a nonsensical future war between a mechanical musically weaponized side and biological spore-wielding side.

The Stiff and the Stile by Stepan Chapman (1997)- A short nursery-style tale of a post apocalyptic wasteland in the style of The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly.

The Snow Pavilion by Angela Carter (1995)- An interesting one, falling somewhere between fairytale and horror, and quite ambiguous in what exactly is going on. And, being Carter, exquisite writing and imagery.

Weird.

The Delicate by Jeffrey Ford (1994)- A great short, surreal story about a strange, shapeshifting monster called The Delicate.

The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King (1994)- A man in his nineties recounting the story of how he encountered the Devil as a young boy while fishing.

The MP3 Audiobook Library copy had the option to remove Gaiman's story when I told the librarian that he is the only reason I stayed away from this anthology. I will not under any circumstance touch anything from him.

But this contains my favorite Novella / Novelette of all times, "Tainaron" by Leena Krohn and a few works from other authors I adore such as Octavia E. Butler