Night of the Cooters More Neat Stories 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:
Night of the Cooters (frontspiece) • interior artwork by Terry Lee;
Howard • essay by Chad Oliver;
Night of the Cooters [War of the Worlds] (1987) • shortstory, interior artwork by Terry Lee;
French Scenes (1988) • novelette, interior artwork by Janet Aulisio;
The Passing of the Western (1989) • shortstory, interior artwork by Don Maitz;
The Adventure of the Grinder's Whistle (1977) • shortfiction, interior artwork by Karen Barnes;
Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! [Wild Cards] (1987) • novelette, interior artwork by Roger Stine;
The Annotated Jetboy (1986) • essay by Howard Waldrop
Hoover's Men (1988) • shortstory, interior artwork by Arnie Fenner;
Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? (1988) • novelette, interior artwork by Janet Aulisio;
Wild, Wild Horses (1988) • shortstory, interior artwork by Terry Lee;
Fin de Cyclé (1990) • novelette, interior artwork by Jim Fanning.