McSWEENEY'S MAMMOTH TREASURY OF THRILLING TALES

New York: Vintage Books - Random House, 2003. Book. Illus. by H. J. Ward; Howard Chaykin;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First American Edition. 8vo. 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..