Arnie Bellingham wasn't looking forward to opening his Christmas presents. They weren't what he wanted; they were what the bully up the street had demanded.
But one of them turned out to be something neither boy had asked for.
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H. P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Darrell Schweitzer, John Glasby, Michael R. Collings, Brian Stableford, Brian McNaughton, Frank Belknap Long, Stephen Mark Rainey, Jason Van Hollander, Henry Kuttner, Mark McLaughlin, Lin Carter, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Adrian Cole, Robert M. Price & John P. McCann
Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Pamela Sargent, Reginald Bretnor, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Adam-Troy Castro, Jerry Oltion, Mary A. Turzillo, Jay Lake & Samuel R. Delany
Gardner Dozois, Allen Steele, Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Donald E. Westlake, Frederik Pohl, Avram Davidson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Sheckley, Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski, Brenda W. Clough, Keith Laumer, Darrell Schweitzer, Bruce Bethke, Grania Davis, Sterling E. Lanier, James C. Stewart, Rick Raphael, Walter S. Tevis, Charles L. Fontenay, Ken Scholes, Everett B. Cole & Walter J. Sheldon
H.P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Brian Stableford, Brian McNaughton, Robert Bloch, Stephen Mark Rainey, Lin Carter, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Adrian Cole, John Gregory Betancourt & Colin Azariah-Kribbs
Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Thomas Burnett Swann, Clive Jackson, Paul Di Filippo, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard, Lawrence Watt-Evans, John Gregory Betancourt, Clark Ashton Smith, Lin Carter, E. Hoffmann Price, Darrell Schwetizer, Brian Stableford, Achmed Abdullah & Brian McNaughton
Roger Zelazny, Steven Brust, Steve Perry, Trent Zelazny, Shannon Zelazny, Kelly McCullough, Mark Rich, Jane Lindskold, Gio Clairval, Edward J. McFadden III, Gerald Hausman, Warren Lapine, Theodore Krulik, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Michael H. Hanson, Shariann Lewitt & Jay O'Connell