The bearded girl / Aimee Bender -- Those psychics on TV / Vivian Vande Velde -- The year of the rat / Danica Novgorodoff -- The mummy's daughter / Annette Curtis Klause -- When God came to Kathleen's garden / David Almond -- The shadow troupe / Shawn Cheng -- Cat calls / Cynthia Leitich Smith -- The bread box / Cecil Castellucci -- Living curiosities / Margo Lanagan -- Jargo! / Matt Phelan.
Summary:
Ten original tales by modern-day masters of the bizarre. Meet mediums and mummies, spinsters and bearded ladies, circus freaks and monsters of every sort!
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