Table of Contents:

• An Accident at the Pole
• Advice
• Ages of a Toad
• All Families Are Not the Same
• An Angry Poem by a Dragon’s Mother
• At War with Wood
• Auntie
• A Bad Cat
• Balance
• Baseball is Safer
• The Bear with One Green Ear
• Being Me
• Better Than Money
• A Beverage with Antlers
• Boogeyman
• The Cabbage Feels No Pain
• Cats in Spats
• Crime and Punishment
• A Cure for Ugly
• Dangerous Music
• Dinner with Jilly
• Do Trees Sneeze?
• Dogs and Hogs
• Fashion-Plate Fido
• The Fearful Bee
• Food Psychos
• Frankenbunny
• Handyman
• Head Number Two
• Horse Thief
• I Don’t Share
• If I Were a Potato
• Insults
• An Interesting Fact About Dogs
• Listen to the Wind
• A Long Day of Rhyming
• Lucky Skunk
• The Man With Four Eyes
• Mary Thinks She Wants a Puppy
• The Monstrous Broccoli Excuse
• My Words
• The Paper Doorway
• Peace Through Hopping
• Peg-Leg Zeg
• The Pig with Pride
• Plurals
• Poem by My Dog
• The Prettiest Butterfly I Will Ever See
• Princess with a Tail
• Rain
• Red Hair
• The Reliable Bunny
• Rocks
• Rumor
• Safe Household Accidents
• The Seasons of a Toad
• The Shark in the Park
• A Short Trip
• Sick
• Silly
• A Skeleton’s Hotel
• Snowland
• So There
• Stars, Mars, and Chocolate Bars
• A Strange Day on the Farm
• Them and Us
• Thinking About Me
• Those Weird Guys in Nursery Rhymes
• The Threat
• Toast and Jam
• Up
• Wally the Werewolf
• The Wart
• What Will We Do, What Will We Do?
• What I Like
• Why?
• Why Good Manners Matter
• Why I Find It So Hard to Learn
• Why Most People Prefer Cats and Dogs
• Wishes
• The Woggle Wrangler
• You Get the Pickle You Ask For
• The Young Musician – Or Maybe Thug

From The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones
Carroll & Graf, 2002, p3:
”One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz had 500,000 copies in print after three printings. It involved a woman on a quest to save a disabled child from the girl’s strange stepfather, who believed that she would be taken away by aliens before her tenth birthday. The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse was a young-adult poetry collection by Koontz, illustrated by Phil Parks. In Britain, Headline published a paperback omnibus of Koontz’s Watchers/Mr. Murder.”