Full Details
Added By: Administrator
Last Updated: valashain
Stranger Things Happen
| Author: | Kelly Link |
| Publisher: |
Subterranean Press, 2012 Small Beer Press, 2001 |
| Series: | |
|
This book does not appear to be part of a series. If this is incorrect, and you know the name of the series to which it belongs, please let us know. |
|
| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Fairytale Fantasy Weird (Fantasy) |
| Awards: | |
| Lists: | |
| Links: |
|
| Avg Member Rating: |
|
|
|
|
Synopsis
Kelly Link has been called "the most impressive writer of her generation" by Peter Straub and "a national treasure" by Neil Gaiman. Publications from Time to the Village Voice, from Locus to Salon, have lauded her as wildly talented and widely influential. In 2001, Link caused the literary world to catch its breath with Stranger Things Happen, one of the first great single-author collections of the new century. When it debuted, the book broke new ground in fantastic literature, and still reads as fresh, provocative, and dazzlingly original.
These stories are strange, quirky, smart -- and like no others. In "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose," a dead man sends letters to his living wife. In "The Specialist"s Hat," the rhymes and games of two children and their babysitter come to define, but not explain, a uniquely haunted house. In "The Girl Detective," the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers means a trip to the underworld. Among the eleven stories gathered here, readers will find dictators and extraterrestrials, an apocalyptic beauty pageant and two women named Louise.
Stories from Stranger Things Happen won Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree Awards, and the volume garnered widespread acclaim. Link continues to earn accolades and find new readers with each story she publishes.
Table of Contents:
- Stranger Things Happen - interior artwork by Kathleen Jennings
- Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose - (1998) - shortstory
- Water Off a Black Dog's Back - (1995) - shortstory
- The Specialist's Hat - (1998) - shortstory
- Flying Lessons - (1996) - novelette
- Travels with the Snow Queen - (1996) - novelette
- Vanishing Act - (1996) - shortfiction
- Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party - (1998) - shortfiction (variant of Survivor's Ball, or The Donner Party)
- Shoe and Marriage - (2000) - shortfiction
- Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water - (2001) - shortstory
- Louise's Ghost - (2001) - novelette
- The Girl Detective - (1999) - novelette
Excerpt
No excerpt currently exists for this novel.
Reviews
Images
No alternate cover images currently exist for this novel.
