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Half-Minute Horrors

Susan Rich

First published 2009
Publisher HarperCollins (UK)
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Bobby Chiu
Pages 141
Price £5.99
ISBN 9780007339846

The archived website from publisher Harper includes at "Contributors" a nearly complete set of links to personal websites of and alternative webpages about the writers.

Info from Archive.org copy.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Something You Ought To Know Lemony Snicket Short Fiction
3 The Chicken or the Egg Jerry Spinelli Short Fiction
4 In Hiding Kenneth Oppel Short Fiction
5 The Old Man in the Picture Richard Sala Short Fiction
7 The Babysitter Erin Hunter (I) Short Fiction
9 Grand Entrance James Patterson Short Fiction
10 Halloween Mask Sonya Sones Poem
12 Tenton Tom Genrich & Michele Perry Short Fiction
14 Nanny Angela Johnson Short Fiction
16 What's Coming Arthur Slade Short Fiction
17 An Easy Gig M. T. Anderson Short Fiction
19 Mr. Black Yvonne Prinz Short Fiction
20 The Foot Dragger M. E. Kerr Short Fiction
21 Trick Adam Rex Short Fiction
22 Hank Dean Lorey Short Fiction
24 One of a Kind Sarah Weeks Short Fiction
26 A Walk Too Far Gloria Whelan Short Fiction
27 A Very Short Story Holly Black Short Fiction
29 Deep Six Faye Kellerman Short Fiction
31 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, A Novel As Told by Lisa Brown in Fewer Than 30 Seconds Lisa Brown Short Story
33 The Attack of the Flying Mustaches Pseudonymous Bosch Short Fiction
34 Takowanda Nadia Aguiar Short Fiction
37 Heart Stopper Sienna Mercer Short Fiction
39 Up to My Elbow Jack Gantos Short Fiction
40 Four Gleams in the Moonlight Stephen Marche Short Fiction
41 The Goblin Book Brad Meltzer Short Fiction
43 Worms Lane Smith Poem
44 The Dare Carol Gorman Short Fiction
46 The Ballad of John Grepsy David Rich Poem
48 Soup Jenny Nimmo Short Fiction
49 The Creeping Hand Margaret Atwood Short Story
50 Wet Sand, Little Teeth Mariko Tamaki Short Fiction
56 Chocolate Cake Francine Prose Short Fiction
57 At the Water's Edge Ayelet Waldman Short Fiction
59 My Worst Nightmare R. L. Stine Short Fiction
61 The Beast Outside Adele Griffin Short Fiction
63 Unannounced Aliza Kellerman Short Fiction
65 Krüger's Sausage Haus Mark Crilley Short Fiction
68 There's Something Under the Bed Allan Stratton Short Fiction
69 Cat's Paw Sarah L. Thomson Short Fiction
71 Horrorku Katherine Applegate Poem
72 The Itch Avi Short Fiction
73 The New Me: A Pantoum Gail Carson Levine Poem
75 Always Eleven David Stahler, Jr. Short Fiction
77 Aloft Carson Ellis Poem
80 Skittering Tui T. Sutherland Short Fiction
82 Stuck in the Middle Abi Slone Short Fiction
83 All Finger and Thumbs Joseph Delaney Short Fiction
85 Don't Wet the Bed Alan Gratz Short Fiction
87 The Final Word Josh Greenhut Short Fiction
91 The Shadow Neil Gaiman Short Story
92 A Day at the Lake Lesley Livingston Short Story
94 Whispered Jon Scieszka Short Fiction
95 found & envisioned: a disturbing limerick Vladimir Radunsky Poem
97 Through the Veil Alison Mcghee Short Story
98 The Rash Daniel Ehrenhaft Short Story
100 Where Nightmares Walk Melissa Marr Short Story
102 On a Tuesday During That Time of Year Chris Raschka Short Story
104 Death Rides a Pink Bicycle Stacey Godenir Short Story
106 I'm Not Afraid Dan Gutman Poem
108 The Doll Alice Kuipers Short Story
109 Easy Over Frank Viva Short Story
112 Them Libba Bray Short Story
114 Tiger Kitty Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
116 Inventory Jonathan Lethem Short Story
117 Shortcut Michael Connelly Short Story
119 Strawberry Bubbles Lauren Myracle Short Story
123 We Think You Do Barry Yourgrau Short Story
125 The Prisoner of Eternia Aaron Renier Short Story
129 In Conclusion Gregory Maguire Short Story
142 Susan Rich (About the Author: Half-Minute Horrors) uncredited Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Half-Minute Horrors Cover 2009 Harper Hardcover Anthology Bobby Chiu 141
Half-Minute Horrors Cover 2011 HarperCollins Trade Paperback Anthology Bobby Chiu 160