Things that Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Original Stories

Jane Yolen, Martin Harry Greenberg

Harper & Row, 1989 - Fantastic fiction, American - 280 pages

A collection of original stories about the noises, dreams, and shadows of the night that frighten and beguile the imagination.

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• Things That Go Grump in the Night: 25
• by Leigh Ann Hussey: 38

About the author

Jane Yolen was born February 11, 1939 in New York City. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. After college, she became an editor in New York City and wrote during her lunch break. She sold her first children's book, Pirates in Petticoats, at the age of 22. Since then, she has written over 300 books for children, young adults, and adults. Her other works include the Emperor and the Kite, Owl Moon, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and The Devil's Arithmetic. She has won numerous awards including the Kerlan Award, the Regina Medal, the Keene State Children's Literature Award, the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award. Martin H. Greenberg was born in 1942. He received a doctorate in Political Science in 1969 and was a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin until 1995. Over the course of his long and prolific career, Greenberg has published around 1000 anthologies and has worked with numerous best-selling authors including Isaac Asimov, Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Anne McCaffrey, Sue Grafton, Scott Turow and Dean Koontz. He has won numerous awards including the Horror Guild Award in 1994, the Deathrealm Award in 1996, the Bram Stoker Award in 1998, and the Prometheus Special Award in 2005. He also received The Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing and the Milford Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction editing.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Things that Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Original Stories
• Editors: Jane Yolen, Martin Harry Greenberg
• Illustrated by: Jane Yolen
• Publisher: Harper & Row, 1989
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 24, 2011
• ISBN: 0060268034, 9780060268039
• Length: 280 pages