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REALLY
REALLY
REALLY
REALLY
WEIRD STORIES
by
John Shirley

The weirdest of the weird, the strangest of the strange.

John Shirley's Really Really Really Really Weird Stories slip out of the constraints of whatever labels have been been put to them -- science fiction, fantasy, horror, erotica, suspense -- and into his own very special, indefinable, extraordinary literary universe.

The thirty-six stories in the book are arranged in four sections: Really Weird, Really Really Weird, Really Really Really Weird, and Really Really Really Really Weird -- the book gets weirder as it progresses.

It's whimsical title acknowledges that it is an exercise in something that is not likely to be a critical priority among literary pundits and academic soothsayers. It acknowledges that there's a big element of pure fun in the concept. As the reader will discover, however, the broad spectrum and literary merit of the stories go far beyond sheer entertainment. This is coherent weirdness -- weirdness that has internal logic and internal believability

The book contains some of Shirley's earliest work and ten pieces never before published.

CONTENTS

REALLY WEIRD STORIES

  • "I Want to Get Married," Says the World's Smallest Man
  • Will The Chill
  • Tapes 12, 14,15, 22 and 23 (first time in print)
  • Don't Be Afraid (new)
  • Lot Five, Building Seven, Door Twenty-three
  • Kindred Spirits (new)
  • The Word "Random" Deliberately Repeated
  • Voices (new)
  • The Last Ride

    • REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES

  • ...And the Angel with Television Eyes
  • The Sweet Caress of Mother Nature (new)
  • In the Cornelius Arms
  • Quill Tripstickler Out the Window
  • I Live In Elizabeth
  • Morons at the Speed of Light (new)
  • Silent Crickets
  • Screens
  • Brittany? Oh: She's In Translucent Blue (new)
  • Ticket To Heaven

    • REALLY REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES

  • Ash
  • Triggering
  • Skeeter Junkie
  • When Enter Came
  • What Joy! What Fulfillment! (new)
  • 199619971998
  • Preach: Part One
  • Preach: Part Two: The Apocalypse of The Rev. John Shirley (new)
  • Modern Transmutations of the Alchemist (new)

    • REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES

  • Just Like Suzie
  • Cold Feet
  • The Peculiar Happiness of Professor Cort
  • Tahiti in Terms of Squares
  • Equlibrium
  • What Cindy Saw
  • The Almost Empty Rooms
  • Ten Things To Be Thankful For (first time in print)
  • The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be (new)

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