The fourth volume of the annual Unidentified Funny Objects series features the theme of dark humor.

What happens when you ask some of the genre's masters to interpret this theme? The enclosed twenty-three darkly humorous tales range from black comedy to biting satire to morbid irony and everything in between.

Inside this book you'll find Faustian bargains gone awry, time-traveling ghosts, flawed supervillains, talking hamsters, and much more.

Featuring stories by:

George R. R. Martin

Neil Gaiman

Andrew Kaye

Caroline M. Yoachim

Esther Friesner

Brent C. Smith

Laura Pearlman

Tim Pratt

Piers Anthony

Ian Creasey

Oliver Buckram

Anaea Lay

Karen Haber

Eric Kaplan

Jody Lynn Nye

Tina Gower

Zach Shephard

Mike Resnick

James Aquilone

Michael J. Martinez

Tina Connolly

Gini Koch

Jonathan Ems