David Wisniewski

Five stories offer comical rewrites of well-known horror movies.

When an evil toy store owner brings crime to the city of Tokyo, only a mysterious, and large, hero is able to defeat the villain.

When his friend Chips is snatched and chewed, Tough Cookie sets out from the bottom of the jar to stop Fingers.

A humorous revelation of the real reasons why adults tell children to do things, such as "Eat your vegetables," "Comb your hair," and "Don't blow bubbles in your milk."

Kchokeen, a Tlingit princess, is rescued from drowning by a guardian spirit that later enables Kchokeen to summon a great wave and save her people from hostile strangers.

A retelling in comic strip form of the African epic in which an ugly, crippled child grows up to become the liberator and founder of the great empire of old Mali.

A Mayan boy must defeat the Rain God in a ball game to save his people from disaster.

Although born blind because of a curse cast on her family by an evil enemy, Elfwyn finds a way to erase the curse with the help of the Hidden Folk.

An emperor gives his twin sons, one a warrior and one a wise man, a quest to see which will rule his kingdom.

"It began with fragmentary, incoherent psychic messages -- Earth had been found by the inhabitants of not one, but two alternate realities. Before long representatives from both of them had arrived in the suburbs of Washington DC, hoping to recruit aid in their own battles. One world was a world of magic; the other reality was a universe of spaceships and rayguns. A handful of ordinary Americans -- housewives, lawyers, interior decorators, and the like -- found themselves caught up in the transdimensional conflict. But these are not the harmless, happy-ending lands of film and fable. The sweat and blood was real, and the horrors they faced genuinely dangerous. They had little hope of triumph, or even survival ..."--Jacket.

A boastful strong man learns a lesson harder than his muscles when he encounters one of Nigeria's superheroes in this Hausa tale which explains the origin of thunder.

A group of children on an inner-city council estate encounter a computer in which the characters of a new game come to life. These "golems" eventually help the children combat the evil owner of a multinational corporation, who, bent on world domination, is using the game to send subliminal messages.