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 Ted Thompson, Eli Horowitz, Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket, Nick Hornsby, George Saunders, Kelly Link, Richard Jerome Kennedy, Jon Scieszka, Clement Freud, James Kochalka, Jeanne DuPrau, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sam Swope