The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities

“Pulvadmonitor: The Dust’s Warning” copyright © 2011 by China Miéville

“The Very Shoe” copyright © 2011 by Helen Oyeyemi

“The Gallows-horse” copyright © 2011 by Reza Negarestani

“The Thing in the Jar” copyright © 2011 by Michael Cisco

“The Singing Fish” copyright © 2011 by Amal El-Mohtar

“The Armor of Sir Locust” copyright © 2011 by Stepan Chapman

“A Key to the Castleblakeney Key” copyright © 2011 by Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Taking the Rats to Riga” copyright © 2011 by Jay Lake

“The Book of Categories” copyright © 2011 by Charles Yu

“Objects Discovered in a Novel Under Construction” copyright © 2011 by Alan Moore

“1929: The Singular Taffy Puller” copyright © 2011 by N. K. Jemisin

“1943: A Brief Note Pertaining to the Absence of One Olivaceous Cormorant, Stuffed” copyright © 2011 by Rachel Swirsky

“1963: The Argument Against Louis Pasteur” copyright © 2011 by Mur Lafferty

“1972: The Lichenologist's Visit” copyright © 2011 by Ekaterina Sedia

“1995: Kneel” copyright © 2011 by Brian Evenson

“2000: Dr. Lambshead’s Dark Room” copyright © 2011 by S. J. Chambers

“2003: The Pea” copyright © 2011 by Gio Clairval

The flash fictions in “A Brief Catalog of Additional Items” are copyright © 2011 to the writer noted in parentheses at the end of each entry: Hugh Alter, Charlie Jane Anders, Julie Andrews, Christopher Begley, Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Nickolas Brienza, Tucker Cummings, Kaolin Imago Fire, Jess Gulbranson, Jennifer Harwood-Smith, Willow Holser, Rhys Hughes, Incognitum (aka Reza Negarestani), Paul Kirsch, Michael J. Larson, Graham Lowther, Claire Massey, Tony Mileman, Adam Mills, Annalee Newitz, Ignacio Sanz, Steven M. Schmidt, Grant Stone, Norman Taber (aka Dr. Galubrious), Brian Thill, Nick Tramdack, Nicholas Troy, Tom Underberg, Horia Ursu, William T. Vandemark, Kali Wallace, Tracie Welser, Amy Willats, Nadine Wilson, Ben Woodard.

Other Books by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Best American Fantasy 1

(with Matthew Cheney)

Best American Fantasy 2

(with Matthew Cheney)

The New Weird

Steampunk

Fast Ships, Black Sails

Last Drink Bird Head:

Flash Fiction for Literacy

The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals

Steampunk Reloaded

The Weird

Books by Jeff VanderMeer

FICTION

Dradin, in Love

The Book of Lost Places

Veniss Underground

City of Saints & Madmen

Secret Life

Shriek: An Afterword

The Situation

Secret Lives

Predator: South China Sea

Finch

The Third Bear

The Three Quests of the

Wizard Sarnod

NONFICTION AND

ANTHOLOGIES

Leviathan 1 (with Luke O’Grady)

Leviathan 2 (with Rose Secrest)

Leviathan 3 (with Forrest Aguirre)

Album Zutique

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide

to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

(with Mark Roberts)

Why Should I Cut Your Throat?

Booklife: Strategies & Survival Tips

for the 21st Century Writer

Monstrous Creatures: Explorations

of Fantasy

The Steampunk Bible

(with S. J. Chambers)

Copyright

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD CABINET OF CURIOSITIES. Collection copyright © 2011 by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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