[1] It is an anthology of short stories compiled and edited by Bruce Coville for Avon Camelot Books.

Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters includes fourteen stories about humans or other beings shapeshifting into animals, mythical creatures, and inanimate objects, as well as Bruce Coville's introduction, "What shape are your dreams?"

The book includes fourteen black-and-white illustrations by Ernie Colon and John Nyberg.

The cover of one Avon Camelot paperback printing, possibly the first, is by Ernie Colon.

That cover features an alien/robot/human from surrounded by reptilian worms and silhouetted by an orange sky.