Half-minute horrors by Holly Black and Joyce Carol Oates and Neil Gaiman and Lesley Livingston and R.L. Stine and Margaret Atwood and Adele Griffin and Melissa Marr and Nadia Aguiar and Katherine Applegate and Avi and Pseudonymous Bosch and Libba Bray and Lisa Brown and Michael Connelly and Joseph Delaney and Dan Gutman and Erin Hunter and Jonathan Lethem and Gail Carson Levine and Dean Lorey and Gregory Maguire and Sienna Mercer and Lauren Myracle and Jenny Nimmo and Kenneth Oppel and Adam Rex and Jon Scieszka and Brian Selznick and Lemony Snicket and Jerry Spinelli and Tui T. Sutherland and Sarah Weeks and Gloria Whelan and Allan Stratton and James Patterson and Angela Johnson and Susan Rich and Lane Smith