Contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT NOTICE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. BOOK ONE
  5. WOBBLING
  6. PART I: THE LAY OF THE LAND
  7. CHAPTER ONE A Marmot and a Mysterious Woman
  8. CHAPTER TWO Three Peculiar Doors and a Weirder Map
  9. CHAPTER THREE Damn the Czechs, Damn the English
  10. CHAPTER FOUR Awoken by Bird-Children—and a Phantom Mansion
  11. CHAPTER FIVE War Planning in the Catacombs (Not an Ossuary)
  12. CHAPTER SIX A Bloody Disaster Area
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN A Plant in a Map
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT A Tiki Bar Trap, with Wobble
  15. CHAPTER NINE Flowers for a Plant
  16. CHAPTER TEN A Potato and a Carrot Hold Hands
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN The Inventor Stashed in the Basement
  18. PART II: QUICKSAND
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE The Tea Tray in the Tower
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Garbage in the Cause of Liberty (Hold the Goat)
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN No Bells Are Ringing, but All the Bells Are Ringing
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN A Well-Maintained Lawn Is an Utter Horror
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Neither Ghost Bears nor Wraiths Shall Love Thee
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A Giant Earthworm Shall Lay Waste to Your Cities
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Too Many Hamsters, Not Enough Faith
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN Loons Appreciate Fireflies
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY Not a Marble
  28. PART III: THE LEAP
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE A Rogue Sister-Blister
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Damn That Speck!
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE If You Don’t Jump, I Push You, I Push You Hard
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Bound to a Madman by a Giant Worm
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Flutter Blood Baby
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Up a Tree, in the Boonies, West of Nowhere
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN My Home Is a Giant War Elephant
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Flying Deer and Shadowy Watchers
  37. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Please Die on Our Fine Selection of Dragons
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY Comets and Campfires
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE I Shall Make Your Hand Eat Your Face
  40. PART IV: THE FALL
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO A Monstrous Schoolmarm
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Jaw-Palm Graw-Mar
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR One Head Is Better Than None
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Fun Ickular
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Snailmate Along the Northern Front
  46. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Please, Sir, No More Puffin’ Trail
  47. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Death Piggies and the Celestial Beast
  48. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE Dead Leaves Walking
  49. CHAPTER FORTY All the Way Down
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE He Who He Who He Who He
  51. EPILOGUE Roadside Pickup
  52. The Wobble Book Club Questions
  53. INTERLUDE An Excerpt from A Short History of the Builders
  54. BOOK TWO
  55. THE MARMOT’S SHADOW
  56. PART V: A HIGHER POWER
  57. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Falling, Be–Sotto Voice
  58. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE New Bodies and Old Busy Bodies
  59. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR A Soft Landing in a Hard Place
  60. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE Fabled Mouse Salamander, Now with River Shanty
  61. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX Jaunty and Disturbing Meadow Talk
  62. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN A Speck of Uncommon Sense
  63. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT The Alpine Meadows Research Institute
  64. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE The Supernal Burgh, the Fairy-Tale Rot
  65. CHAPTER FIFTY Return of a King
  66. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE Marmot Carpet, Pouch and Release
  67. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO Burning but Not Burning Up
  68. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE That Unicorn Is Just a Common Terrier
  69. PART VI: A LOWER POWER
  70. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR Sark and Jaunty Blue
  71. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE Underground Never Found
  72. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX Making a House a Home with a Moat and Fade Pens
  73. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN A Nice, Quiet Night at Home, with Trust Issues
  74. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT The Fester Growley Book Club
  75. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE The Two Powers
  76. CHAPTER SIXTY Beyond the Dark Sea
  77. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE Spare a Gold Coin for a Down-and-Out Gill-Lad?
  78. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO Wither Wander; Neither a Burrower nor a Dirigible Be?
  79. PART VII: LOST IN THE MIST
  80. CHAPTER SIXTY-HIC-FOUR Not a Mark, Not a Happy Man
  81. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE-ISH I Laugh When I Cry and I Criesh Whens I Laughsh
  82. DAPP CHAPP SIXTY-SIXTY OR SIXTY-SEVEN??! The Great Truth Offensive
  83. CHAPPER OH I FEEL FUNNY SIXTY-SEVEN Fellowship of the Thing
  84. CHAP SHIXTY-SOMETHIN’ A Duel or a Fool, with a Blasted Tree in the Way
  85. CHAP (ASHPRIN, PLEASH) SIXTY-NINE I Am a Mountain with Flowers on Top
  86. CHAPTER (ASPIRIN, PLEASE) SEVENTY Mothballs and Headaches
  87. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE The Château Peppermint Blonkers
  88. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO The House on the Ridge and a Mysterious Woman
  89. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE A Parliament of Crows
  90. EPILOGUE Clarity, Now with Hellscape
  91. The Comet Man Book Club Questions
  92. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  93. ABJECT THANKS
  94. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  95. COPYRIGHT