"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R. R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp serials, fairy tales, and extinct species is put to good use in these sophisticated re-combinations of our pop-culture dreams. Contents: The Ugly Chickens (1980) Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen (1976) Ike at the Mike (1982) Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla (1977) "...The World as We Know't." (1982) Green Brother (1982) Mary Margaret Road-Grader (1976) Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me (1976) Horror, We Got (1979) Man-Mountain Gentian (1983) God's Hooks! (1982) Heirs of the Perisphere (1985)