Coming March 2023 Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today’s finest short story writers—MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, […]
Paperback edition: February 9, 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction “A collection of short stories in which a writer with a fertile and often fabulist imagination explores inner lies and odd corners of reality.” Indies Choice Book of the Year Finalist Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction of 2015 · NPR 2015 Great Reads · Slate […]
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers: Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny […]
Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume. Predatory kraken that sing with — and for — their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as repel. Welcome to a world where humans […]
This special chapbook edition of “Stone Animals” from Madras Press comes with a letterpressed cover (in a choice of blue or brown) and is illustrated by a number of authors, artists, critics, and fans, including Lisa Brown, Lilli Carré, Anthony Doerr, Lev Grossman, Daniel Handler, Paul Hornschemeier, Ursula K. Le Guin, Laura Miller, Audrey Niffenegger, […]
Locus Award finalist. Orphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their lives. A girl confronts the Grand Technomancer, Most Mighty Mechanician and Highest of the High Artificier Adepts. Another girl, who might be from another universe, stuns everyone when she pulls out her handmade Reality Gun. Welcome to fourteen steampunk […]
* “The 40 selections in this exemplary anthology from Link and Grant (the fantasy half) and Datlow (the horror half) reflect virtually every hue of the fantasy/horror palette. . . . The front matter’s snapshot summaries of the past year’s yield in fantasy, horror, comics, mixed media and music are a small and invaluable book […]
Pretty Monsters is part of the new list of books included the Big Read program. Listen to Kelly chat with Josephine Reed on the NEA’s Artworks podcast. Pretty Monsters is Kelly’s first collection of stories for readers of all ages: THIS BOOK CONTAINS TEN SHORT STORIES And: A phone booth in Las Vegas ~ Aliens […]
Random House re-released Magic for Beginners with a newly designed cover and an added conversation between Joe Hill and Kelly Link. 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. Kelly Link reconstructs modern […]
For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, […]