Night of the Cooters Author:Howard Waldrop A short story collection which takes "What if..." ideas and twists them around until the reader says, "What the HELL?!?!" Stories that will A) knock you back in your seat with the sheer g-force of imaginative acceleration; and B) make you wonder how or where a top-notch writing-engineer like Waldrop receives his divinel... more »y insane ideas. Waldrop's fiction is a smorgasboard of delightful details. It activates circuits in your brain you didn't realize you had: alternate history, pure fantasy, plain old daily drive of weird, this collection's got it.
Contents:
Howard (1990) • essay by Chad Oliver;
Night of the Cooters [War of the Worlds] (1987) • Introduction & shortstory;
French Scenes (1988) • Introduction & novelette;
The Passing of the Western Night (1989) • Introduction & shortstory;
The Adventure of the Grinder's Whistle (1977) • Introduction & shortstory by Howard Waldrop [as by Edward Malone];