title: The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Horse Tales
author:  Steven D. Price 
description: A veteran writer on horses, Price (The Quotable Horse Lover) has assembled a varied collection of tales on the noble steed. Unlike Paul B. Staudohaur's Boxing's Best Short Stories (LJ 10/15/99), this work blends fiction with book excerpts, newspaper columns, and even poetry. The selections include horseracing, cowboy life, rider training, and veterinary practice. Especially appealing are an "All Things" selection by James Herriott, Alexis Podjajsky's Spanish Riding School memoir, and Maxine Kumin on girls' love of horses. Lay readers may long for Price's The Horseman's Illustrated Dictionary (LJ 12/00) for help defining some of the terms used, but this is a fine adult and YA choice for public libraries. Morey Berger, St. Joseph's Hosp. Lib., Tucson, AZ <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **Mister Slaughter**
  
   **By**
  
   **Robert McCammon**
  
   **-Contents-**  
    
  
  One
  
  Two
  
  Three
  
  Four
  
  Five
  
  Six
  
  Seven
  
  Eight
  
  Nine
  
  Ten
  
  Eleven
  
  Twelve
  
  Thirteen
  
  Fourteen
  
  Fifteen
  
  Sixteen
  
  Seventeen
  
  Eighteen
  
  Nineteen
  
  Twenty
  
  Twenty-One
  
  Twenty-Two
  
  Twenty-Three
  
  Twenty-Four
  
  Twenty-Five
  
  Twenty-Six
  
  Twenty-Seven
  
  Twenty-Eight
  
  Twenty-Nine
  
  Thirty
  
  Thirty-One
  
  Thirty-Two
  
  Thirty-Three
  
  Thirty-Four
  
  Thirty-Five
  
   **PART ONE: The Monster's Tooth**
  
   ** _One_**
  
   _Listen_! Said the October wind, as it swirled and swooped through the
  streets of New York. _I have a story to_ tell!
  
   _About change in the weather, and the whethers of men! Whether this one
  staggering past, the spindly gent, shall right himself against my onslaught
  before I take him to the wall, or whether that one there, with his prodigious
  belly, shall be fast enough to catch his tricorn as I throw it from his head!
  With a shove and a shriek I pass through the town, and what fast horse might
  ride me down?_
  
   _None_ , thought