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.

Contents:

• The Chiaroscurist by Hal Duncan
• Lyceum by Liz Williams
• Vivisepulture by David Prill
• Eczema by Clare Dudman
• Semaphore by Alex Irvine
• The Smaragdine Knot by Marly Youmans
• A Portrait in Ivory by Michael Moorcock
• The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics by Daniel Abraham
• Logorrhea by Michelle Richmond
• Pococurante by Anna Tambour
• From Around Here by Tim Pratt
• Vignette by Elizabeth Hand
• Plight of the Sycophant by Alan DeNiro
• The Last Elegy by Matthew Cheney
• Eudaemonic by Jay Caselberg
• Softer by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Crossing the Seven by Jay Lake
• Tsuris by Leslie What
• The Euonymist by Neil Williamson
• Singing of Mount Abora by Theodora Goss
• Appoggiatura by Jeff VanderMeer