Lubar, David. Weenies

"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."

A collection of thirty-five stories featuring such horrors as a monstrous Halloween costume, a midnight visit to a graveyard, and a hearing-impaired genie. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories

560L

Decoding demand: 89 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high)

Last Halloween -- Bed tings -- Dead won't hurt you -- Copies -- Shaping the fog -- Willard's oppositional notebook -- Tiny little piece -- La Brea toy pits -- Mr. Lambini's haunted house -- Numbskull -- Little night fishing -- Precious memories -- Baby talk -- Unseen -- Flyers -- Every autumn -- Goose eggs -- Fresh from the garden -- Covered bridge -- Buzz off -- Just desserts -- Whole nine yards -- Green Man -- Dizzy spells -- Tank -- Anything you want -- Lines -- Wandering Stu -- Tarnation -- Ten pounds of chocolate -- Boy who wouldn't talk -- Invasion of the road weenies -- We interrupt this program -- Smell of death -- Shortcut