β Scribed by Alex Shvartsman (ed)
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The fourth volume of the annual Unidentified Funny Objects series features the theme of dark humor. What happens when you ask some of the genre's masters to interpret this theme? The enclosed twenty-three darkly humorous tales range from black comedy to biting satire to morbid irony and everything in between. Inside this book you'll find Faustian bargains gone awry, time-traveling ghosts, flawed supervillains, talking hamsters, and much more.
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FOREWORD - Alex Shvartsman
WE CAN GET THEM FOR YOU WHOLESALE - Neil Gaiman
THE TIME-TRAVELING GHOST MACHINE OF PROFESSOR JAIME PELIGROSA - Andrew Kaye
PLEASE APPROVE THE DISSERTATION RESEARCH OF ANGTOR - Caroline M. Yoachim
THE MATCH GAME - Esther Friesner
THE TRANSFORMATION OF PRINCE HUMPHREY - Brent C. Smith
IN THE END, YOU GET CLARITY - Laura Pearlman
PROJECT DISASTER - Tim Pratt
HELLO HOTEL - Piers Anthony
BOBS NO-KILL MONSTER SHELTER - Ian Creasey
BOARD MEETING MINUTES - Oliver Buckram
ARMED FOR YOU - Anaea Lay
THE UNFORTUNATE PROBLEM OF GRANDMOTHERS HEAD - Karen Haber
MY MOTHER LOVES HER ROBOT MORE THAN ME AND I FEEL BAD - Eric Kaplan
THE WORM THAT TURNED - Jody Lynn Nye
DEPARTMENT OF DEATH PREDICTIONS, FINAL NOTICE - Tina Gower
CHAMPIONS OF BREAKFAST - Zach Shephard
KEEPING AHEAD - Mike Resnick
SO YOUVE METAMORPHOSED INTO A GIANT INSECT. NOW WHAT? - James Aquilone
CONFESSIONS OF AN INTERPLANETARY ART FRAUD - Michael J. Martinez
TEXTS FROM MY MOTHER ABOUT THE ALIEN INVASION - Tina Connolly
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ALIEN - Gini Koch
CONVERSATION TOPICS TO AVOID ON A FIRST DATE WITH YOURSELF - Jonathan Ems
THE MONKEY TREATMENT - George R. R. Martin
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Featuring stories by: George R. R. Martin Neil Gaiman Andrew Kaye Caroline M. Yoachim Esther Friesner Brent C. Smith Laura Pearlman Tim Pratt Piers Anthony Ian Creasey Oliver Buckram Anaea Lay Karen Haber Eric Kaplan Jody Lynn Nye Tina Gower Zach Shephard Mike Resnick James Aquilone Michael J. Martinez Tina Connolly Gini Koch Jonathan Ems
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