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

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