Publication: Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things ... That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out

Publication: Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things ... That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us OutPublication Record # 326068
Editors: Eli Horowitz, Ted Thompson
Date: 2005-09-09
ISBN: 1-932416-35-8 [978-1-932416-35-0]
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Price:
$22.00^?$: US dollar
Pages: 202+[3]+[6]
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things ... That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out by Bruce Timm
Notes:
- Cover artist credited on copyright page.
- Publication date from Barnes & Noble.
- Back of dustjacket has partial story ("Snicket Starts. You Finish.") by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) which is to be finished by the purchaser and mailed in as a contest entry. Copies of the book for which the dustjacket was sent in will therefor not have this story fragment.
- Dustjacket is marked for folding and mailing.
- Contest deadline was April 1, 2006.
- Cover of book blind-stamped with "Hold me" on front and back.
- Green blob on cover of book is "Big Nazo."
- Proceeds of the book went to 826NYC to help students with writing skills.
- False title of the book reads "NO,UB&SOTTAaS,M,DoHYFALL,SC,CftS,PWDiP,aMNLF,&OOSWCQF,SMYCHUO."
- "Spoony-E & Spandy-3 vs. the Purple Hordes" is a comic story written and illustrated by Kochalka.
- One of the illustrations for "The Sixth Borough" is a three-page fold-out map bound in between pages 200 and 201.
- The "Excessively Difficult Crossword" beginning on page [304] consists of questions about the stories in the book.
- Pages [206] and [207] are author and artist biographies.
- Page [208] consists of questions and answers about the 826NYC charity and the solution to the crossword puzzle.
External IDs:
- LCCN: 2010294879
- OCLC/WorldCat: 61856702

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Anthology Title: Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things ... That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out • anthology by Eli Horowitz and Ted Thompson

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Introduction (Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary) • interior artwork by Brett Helquist
Small Country • interior artwork by David Heatley
Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband • interior artwork by Juliette Borda
Monster • interior artwork by Shelley Dick
The Contests at Cowlick • interior artwork by Jan Van Der Veken
Each Sold Separately • interior artwork by Lane Smith
Seymour's Last Wish • interior artwork by Henrik Drescher
Grimble • interior artwork by Marcel Dzama
Spoony-E & Spandy-3 vs. the Purple Hordes • interior artwork by James Kochalka
Sunbird • interior artwork by
Peter de Sève^?Peter de Seve
The ACES Phone • interior artwork by Rachell Sumpter
The Sixth Borough • interior artwork by Barry Blitt
bp • Snicket Starts. You Finish. • short story by Lemony Snicket
9 • Introduction (Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary) • essay by Lemony Snicket
13 • Small Country • novelette by Nick Hornby
37 • Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband • short story by George Saunders
47 • Monster • novelette by Kelly Link
73 • The Contests at Cowlick • (1975) • short story by Richard Kennedy
83 • Each Sold Separately • short story by Jon Scieszka
87 • Seymour's Last Wish • short story by Sam Swope
99 • Grimble • (1968) • novelette by Clement Freud
137 • Spoony-E & Spandy-3 vs. the Purple Hordes • short fiction by James Kochalka
149 • Sunbird • novelette by Neil Gaiman
177 • The ACES Phone • short story by Jeanne DuPrau
193 • The Sixth Borough • short story by Jonathan Safran Foer
[204] • Excessively Difficult Crossword • essay by David Levinson Wilk

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