Rabindranath Tagore
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| - | '''''The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories''''' is an [[anthology]] of [[weird fiction]] edited by [[Ann VanderMeer|Ann]] and [[Jeff VanderMeer]]. | ||
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| - | Published on 8 May 2012, it contains 110 short stories, novellas and short novels. At 1,152 pages in the hardcover edition, it is probably the largest single volume of fantastic fiction ever published, according to ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]''. | ||
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| - | * ''Foreweird''<!-- sic --> by [[Michael Moorcock]] | ||
| - | * Introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer | ||
| - | * [[Alfred Kubin]], ''The Other Side'' (excerpt), 1908 (translation, Austria) | ||
| - | * [[F. Marion Crawford]], ''The Screaming Skull,'' 1908 | ||
| - | * [[Algernon Blackwood]], ''[[The Willows (story)|The Willows]],'' 1907 | ||
| - | * [[Saki]], ''[[Sredni Vashtar]],'' 1910 | ||
| - | * [[M.R. James]], ''Casting the Runes,'' 1911 | ||
| - | * [[Lord Dunsany]], ''How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art,'' 1912 | ||
| - | * [[Gustav Meyrink]], ''The Man in the Bottle,'' 1912 (translation, Austria) | ||
| - | * [[Georg Heym]], ''The Dissection,'' 1913 (new translation, Germany) | ||
| - | * [[Hanns Heinz Ewers]], ''The Spider,'' 1915 (translation, Germany) | ||
| - | * [[Rabindranath Tagore]], ''The Hungry Stones,'' 1916 (India) | ||
| - | * [[Luigi Ugolini]], ''The Vegetable Man,'' 1917 (first translation, Italy) | ||
| - | * [[A. Merritt]], ''The People of the Pit,'' 1918 | ||
| - | * [[Ryunosuke Akutagawa]], ''[[Hell Screen|The Hell Screen]],'' 1918 (new translation, Japan) | ||
| - | * [[Francis Stevens]] (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), ''Unseen—Unfeared,'' 1919 | ||
| - | * [[Franz Kafka]], ''In the Penal Colony,'' 1919 (translation, German/Czech) | ||
| - | * [[Stefan Grabinski]], ''The White Weyrak,'' 1921 (translation, Poland) | ||
| - | * [[H.F. Arnold]], ''The Night Wire,'' 1926 | ||
| - | * [[H.P. Lovecraft]], ''The Dunwich Horror,'' 1929 | ||
| + | '''Rabindranath Tagore''' ([[May 6]], [[1861]] - [[August 7]], [[1941]]) also called '''Robi Thakur''' or '''Gurudev''' was an [[India]]n [[poet]], [[Hindu]] [[philosopher]] and [[nationalist]] who was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize for literature]] in [[1913]] becoming the first [[Asia]]n to be awarded a Nobel Prize. | ||
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Rabindranath Tagore (May 6, 1861 - August 7, 1941) also called Robi Thakur or Gurudev was an Indian poet, Hindu philosopher and nationalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 becoming the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
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