McSWEENEY'S MAMMOTH TREASURY OF THRILLING TALES

Chabon, Michael (editor) (Jim Shepard; Glen David Gold; Dan Chaon; Kelly Link; Elmore Leonard; Crol Emshwiller; Neil Gaiman; Nick Hornby; Stephen King; Michael Crichton; Laurie King; Chris Offutt; Michael Moorcock; Sherman Alexie; Harlan Ellison)

ISBN 10: 140003339X / ISBN 13: 9781400033393

Published by Vintage Books - Random House, New York, 2003

About this Item

479 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by H. J. Ward from the October 1940 issue of Red Star Mystery Magazine; interior line drawings by Howard Chaykin. This anthology contains: Tedford and the Megalodon by Jim Shepard; The Tears of Squonk and What Happened Thereafter by Glen David Gold; The Bees by Dan Chanon; Catskin by Kelly Link; How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman by Elmore Leonard; Closing Time by Neil Gaiman; The General by Carol Emshweiller; Otherwise Pandemonium by Nick Hornby; The Tale of Gray Dick by Stephen King; Blood Doesn't Come Out by Michael Crichton; Weaving the Dark by Laurie King; Chruck's Bucket by Chris Offutt; Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly by Dave Eggers; The Case of the Nazi Canary by Michael Moorcock; The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers by Aimee Bender; Ghost Dance by Sherman Alexie; Goodbye to All That by Harlan Ellison; Private Grave 9 by Karen Joy Fowler; The Albetine Notes - a novella by Rick Moody; and The Martian Agent - A Planetary Romance - a novelette by Michael Chabon. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: McSWEENEY'S MAMMOTH TREASURY OF THRILLING TALES
• Publisher: Vintage Books - Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140003339X
• ISBN 13: 9781400033393
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: H. J. Ward; Howard Chaykin
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A Vintage Contemporaries Original

Includes:
Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"

Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"

Dan Chaon's "The Bees"

Kelly Link's "Catskin"

Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"

Carol Emshwiller's "The General"

Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"

Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"

Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn't Come Out"

Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"

Chris Offutt's "Chuck's Bucket"

Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"

Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"

Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"

Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"

Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"

Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"

Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"

Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"

About the Author

About the Editor

Michael Chabon's works of fiction include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, and Were-wolves in Their Youth. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Playboy and in a number of anthologies, among them Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children.