Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, Pretty Monsters is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Link is an original voice: no one else writes quite like this.

Kelly Link’s engaging and funny second collection - call it kitchen-sink magical realism - riffs on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons - and includes several new stories. They leave the reader astonished and exhilarated. These stories are at once ingenious and deeply moving. Kelly Link reconstructs modern life through an intoxicating prism, conjuring up unforgettable worlds with humor and humanity. Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Karen Russell, Neil Gaiman, and Aimee Bender, Magic for Beginners is an exquisite, dreamlike dispatch from a virtuoso storyteller who can do seemingly anything. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice’s 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Each story was written especially for you. These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers.

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics She currently lives with her husband and daughter, dog, and chickens in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Overview: Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. 4 Books by Kelly Link, Illustrated by Shaun Tan

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link