Logorrhea: Good Words Make Stories

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 —a veritable dictionary of the weird, the fantastic, the haunting, and the indefinable that will have you spellbound from the very first page. Including twenty-one stories and the inscrutable words that inspired them: “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