Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories

Edited by John Klima

For most of us, these prizewinning spelling bee words would be difficult to pronounce, let alone spell. We asked twenty-one of today’s most talented and inventive writers to go even further and pen an original tale inspired by one of dozens of obscure and fascinating championship words. The result is Logorrhea–a veritable dictionary of the weird, the fantastic, the haunting, and the indefinable that will have you spellbound from the very first page. There’s only one word for such an irresistible anthology: Logorrhea.

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Table of Contents:

Hal Duncan - “The Chiaroscurist”

Liz Williams - “Lyceum”

David Prill - “Vivisepulture”

Clare Dudman - “Eczema”

Alex Irvine - “Semaphore”

Marly Youmans - “The Smaragdine Knot”

Michael Moorcock - “A Portrait in Ivory”

Daniel Abraham - “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics”

Michelle Richmond - “Logorrhea”

Anna Tambour - “Pococurante”

Tim Pratt - “From Around Here”

Elizabeth Hand - “Vignette”

Alan DeNiro - “Plight of the Sycophant”

Matthew Cheney - “The Last Elegy”

Jay Caselberg - “Eudaemonic”

Paolo Bacigalupi - “Softer”

Jay Lake - “Crossing the Seven”

Leslie What - “Tsuris”

Neil Williamson - “The Euonymist”

Theodora Goss - “Singing of Mount Abora”

Jeff VanderMeer - “Appoggiatura”

Published by Bantam books in May 2007.

ISBN-13: 978-0-553-38433-8

ISBN: 0-553-38433-3

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