McSweeneys Mammoth Treasury of Thril..., Michael Chabon
McSweeneys Mammoth Treasury of Thril..., Michael Chabon
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

Author: Michael Chabon

Narrator: Kevin Gray

Abridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2003

Categories: Fiction, Anthologies


Synopsis

A Vintage Contemporaries Original

Includes:
Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"

Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"

Dan Chaon's "The Bees"

Kelly Link's "Catskin"

Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"

Carol Emshwiller's "The General"

Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"

Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"

Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn’t Come Out"

Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"

Chris Offutt's "Chuck’s Bucket"

Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"

Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"

Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"

Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"

Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"

Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"

Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"

Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"

About Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the bestselling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Werewolves in Their Youth, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Wonder Boys, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Kavalier & Clay won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. In 2000 Wonder Boys was adapted into a critically acclaimed film.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mattia on January 06, 2016

#16 in my Top 20 Books I Read in 2015: [URL not allowed] An all-star team of super dope writers comes together to try and bring back from the dead that slender beast that is the American Genre Short Story. Some people in here did not really get what they were supposed to be writ......more

Goodreads review by Craig on April 18, 2023

This is a very nicely presented anthology of stories designed to be genre fiction with a very literary bent. Or literary stories with a lot of pulp influence. Or something, but whatever it was didn't work as they hoped and didn't thrill as advertised, I don't think. There are some nice stories, but......more

Goodreads review by Ciara on November 19, 2008

do you like genre fiction? then read this book. tragically, i dislike genre fiction. i'm sure this is a great anthology for people who do like genre fiction. by which i mean, westerns, mysteries, fantasy, old-school pulp novels, & items that can be found in the gold room at powell's in portland, ore......more

Goodreads review by Karenina on September 29, 2015

3.5 Unos cuentos me gustaron más que otros pero el libro sí está para no despegar los ojos de las páginas.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on February 17, 2022

Well, this wasn’t what I was expecting at all. From the cover I was thinking this would be “all new tales” written today in the style and subject matter of the pulps from the old pulp magazines. Thrilling Publications produced some of the best pulp stories of the 1930s-50s in magazines such as “Star......more