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Title: The Thing in the Back Yard

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Title: The Thing in the Back Yard Title Record # 1770515
Author: David Gerrold
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: As usual, our narrator is tricked into accepting a Bad Thing. In this case letting a half troll live in the back yard. The half troll digs a cave, smells, yells and grows, and the neighbours complain, and the police demand to see a licence. It's hard to find a way out of this situation.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2014 2014-09-00 ed. Gordon Van Gelder Spilogale, Inc.  
$7.99?$: US dollar
260
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Bryn Barnard Checkmark
Entanglements and Terrors 2015-09-22 David Gerrold DG Media (DG Media Banner Edition) 978-1-939888-16-7
$20.00?$: US dollar
216
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll David Gerrold , Glenn Hauman  
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