Table of Contents (alphabetical) Summations Isabel Allende, The Guggenheim Lovers Laird Barron, Proboscis Elizabeth Bear, Follow Me Light Andrew Bonia, Jolly Bonnet Chaz Brenchley, Going the Jerusalem Mile Tom Brennan, Scarecrow Jack Cady, The Souls of Drowning Mountain Jennifer Chang, Obedience, or The Lying Tale (poem) Robert Coover, The Last One Albert E. Cowdrey, Twilight […]
Locus Award Winner “Anyone worried about original coeditor Terri Windling’s replacement last year by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant should chill now. Their second year aboard this annual excursion on the high-quality seas of fantasy, light and dark, shows no decline in quality or quirkiness from their maiden voyage, though with original coeditor Datlow […]
Bram Stoker Award Winner “The proliferation of specialty fantasy publications with short runs and low profiles, combined with the growing pervasiveness of fantasy and horror in mainstream markets that elude genre enthusiasts, has made this annual culling increasingly vital for readers who seek the best in fantastic fiction. Datlow (the horror half) teams with new […]
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 […]
“Pity the poor librarians who have to slap a sticker on Kelly Link’s genre-bending, mind-blowing masterpiece of the imagination, Stranger Things Happen.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, for NPR’s You Must Read This This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and […]
“Fabulous Tales” —Washington Post Trampoline: an elastic mattress-like contrivance on which acrobats, gymnasts, &c. leap. Trampoline: an original anthology edited by Kelly Link, the award-winning author of Stranger Things Happen, and co-editor of the zine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Trampoline: twenty astounding stories by Christopher Barzak, Richard Butner, Alan DeNiro, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen […]