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Now We Are Sick: An Anthology of Nasty Verse (1991)
Edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones
(a) DreamHaven Books, USA • hc • $20.00
ISBN 0-9630944-1-6
Illustrated by Andrew Smith and Clive Barker
(b) DreamHaven Books, USA • hc (limited, signed edition) • $50.00
ISBN 0-9630944-0-8
Illustrated by Andrew Smith and Clive Barker
(a) DreamHaven Books, USA • hc • $20.00
ISBN 0-9630944-1-6
Illustrated by Andrew Smith and Clive Barker
(b) DreamHaven Books, USA • hc (limited, signed edition) • $50.00
ISBN 0-9630944-0-8
Illustrated by Andrew Smith and Clive Barker
[Note: A chapbook "sampler" was produced in February 1986 for prospective contributors. Illustrated by Alan Hunter and limited to 150 copies, it included an Introducton by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones, plus poems by The Editors, Diana Wynne Jones, Alan Moore, Ramsey Campbell, Jo Fletcher, Gene Wolfe and John M. Ford.]
Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones have gathered together a unique collection of funny, frivolous and frightening poems by thirty of the world’s best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror authors. You are guaranteed to scream with laughter and chuckle in fear as you enter the warped imaginations of these masters of the macabre, for better or verse. If for children you mistook
The rhymes and poems in this book,
We must at once aplogize
And open up your blinkered eyes.
Please do not feel sad or lonely
When we warn: FOR ADULTS ONLY!
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(c) DreamHaven Books, USA • tpb • $11.95 • (1994) ISBN 0-9630944-4-0 Illustrated by Andrew Smith and Clive Barker
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(d) DreamHaven Books, USA • tpb • $9.95 • (2005) ISBN 1-892058-10-3 Illustrated by Andrew Smith and Clive Barker
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(e) as TOUS MALADES! UN RECUEIL DE SALES POÈMES Bragelonne, France • hc • €15 • (2006) ISBN 2-35294-007-9 ISBN13 978-2-35294-007-4 Illustrated by Clive Barker, Boulet, Melaka and Reno
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(f) as ΑΡΡΟΕΤΗΜΕΑ ΜΥΑΛΑ Jemma Press, Greece (2009) • hc ISBN 978-960-6732-20-1 Illustrated by Georgios Dimitriou and Clive Barker
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(g) as NOW WE ARE SICK: UNA ANTOLOGIA DE VERSOS ESPANTOSOS 23 Escalones, Spain • tp • € 22 • (2011) ISBN: 978-84-15104-79-7 Illustrated by Irene León Guijarro Prólogo de Ángel Luis Sucasas [Note: "Edición bilingüe e ilustrada" / "Edición Limitada"]
NOW WE ARE SICK | The Editors |
NASTY HABITS | |
A SLICE OF LIFE | Diana Wynne Jones |
AUNTIE ETHEL | Richard Hill |
YOU ALWAYS EAT THE ONE YOU LOVE | Kim Newman |
CHOCOLATE AND WORMS | David Garnett |
THE DANGERS OF COLOUR TV | Simon Ian Childer |
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR | Alan Moore |
RADIO NASTY | Stephen Gallagher |
SOMETHING CAME OUT OF THE TOILET | Harry Adam Knight |
THE SECRET BOOK OF THE DEAD | Terry Pratchett |
MUMMY’S BLOCKED THE LAV AGAIN | John Grant |
IN LOVING MEMORY | |
RICE PUDDING | Brian Aldiss |
ABOARD THE GOOD SHIP ‘REVENGER’ | Galad Elflandsson |
THE DREAM OF OMAR K. YAM | David Sutton |
YOU’RE DECEASED, FATHER WILLIAM | Colin Greenland |
LESS WELCOME TENANTS | |
A LANDLADY’S LAMENT | Ramsey Campbell |
THE BORGIA BRATS | Garry Kilworth |
ANOTHER CURSED HOUSE STORY | John M. Ford |
WAITING . . . | James Herbert |
THE THING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS | Sharon Baker |
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT | Ian Pemble |
NIGHT FEARS | |
IN THE DARK | Storm Constantine |
LIGHTS OUT | Alex Stewart |
A MOTHER’S TENDER LOVE | Jo Fletcher |
CATCAWLS | Samantha Lee |
THE HAUNTED HENHOUSE | Jessica Amanda Salmonson |
WHEN THE MUSIC BREAKS | R.A. Lafferty |
ADULTS ONLY | |
NASTY SNOW | Jody Scott |
WHY PRIVATE WAR | Gene Wolfe |
THE ANSWERING MACHINE | S.P. Somtow |
EPILOGUE | |
WARNING: DEATH MAY BE INJURIOUS TO YOUR HEALTH | Robert Bloch |
Reviews
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“(Now We Are Sick) is the long awaited sicko poetry anthology for kids with weird taste and their elders.”
—THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR -
“A delightful anthology of gruesome rhyme.”
—Stan Nicholls
THE DARK SIDE, July 1992 -
“Slick, gross, humorous, wry, slanted, poignant, moving, vomit-inducing and great, great fun . . . If you have the same warped sense of black humour as I do, then this is a definite must.”
—David Howe
STARBURST No.166, June 1992 -
“A very morbid, very funny collection. Fantasy readers with a taste for dark humor should enjoy it.”
—John Betancourt
AMAZING STORIES, February 1992 -
“An ideal gift for a child you love-or perhaps for one you hate.”
—John Grant
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