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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury Of Thrilling Tales - edited by Michael Chabon

The second story in this anthology is "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter," written by Glen David Gold. It's an interesting tale, but most importantly to fans of East Tennessee lore, it has the following notation on the last page:

"Note: This story could only have been written with the aid of The Day They Hung The Elephant by Charles Edwin Price."

It's a pretty good collection of stories, unique in some of the authors represented - Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Nick Hornby, Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman, and Harlan Ellison, among many others. Definitely worth a read.