Pretty Monsters
- 1 Jul 2010
- 9781847677846
- £9.99
- 416 pp
- 129×198mm
- 15 Oct 2009
- 9781847678201
- £7.99
- 416 pp
In a few words
Fantastic, fantastical stories from the favourite author of a host of other authors
In a few words
Borges-meets-Buffy, or Scarlett-Thomas-meets-Coraline … for Halloween
Wonderfully odd and original [and] very scary indeed.
Sarah Waters
Intoxicating. These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits, and wrestle you to the ground. They want you and you will be theirs.
Alice Sebold
All of Link's stories are wonderfully odd and original . . . Very scary indeed.
Kelly Link is the literary descendant of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka.
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Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, Pretty Monsters is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster with a sick sense of humour.
This edition also features a brand new story, ‘The Cinderella Game’.
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Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, PRETTY MONSTERS is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night.
Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster who claims to have a sense of humour.
Combining the imaginative brilliance of Borges with the madcap escapades of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more than a pinch of macabre humour, this is writing to come back from the dead for.
Kelly Link is the literary descendant of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka.
Audrey Niffenegger
Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling.
Has plenty to tangle the imagination and leaves some endings tantalisingly hanging in the dark air.
Against a backdrop of recognisable Americana, anything might happen, and usually does.
Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling, and Link find truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch.
A new short story collection by Kelly Link ... and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving.
Intoxicating. These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits, and wrestle you to the ground. They want you and you will be theirs.
Kelly Link
View profileKelly Link is the author of two previous collections, Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners. Her stories have won three Nebula awards, a Hugo and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question, ‘Why do you want to go around the world?’ (‘Because you can’t go through it.’)
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
www.kellylink.net
Kelly Link
View profileKelly Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and publish the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She once won a free trip around the world by answering the question, ‘Why do you want to go around the world?’ (‘Because you can’t go through it.’)
