Pretty Monsters

Paperback | 5 July 2010

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The companion volume to the surreal collection The Wrong Grave

Weird, wicked, spooky and delightful, 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 bloodsucking ghosts are not greedy and where a boy is kidnapped by his father to wait for the aliens to return and we encounter a people-eating monster who claims to have a sense of humour.

Combining the imaginative brilliance of Jorge Luis 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.

About the Author

Kelly Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband run Small Beer Press and play ping-pong. 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.")

Industry Reviews

"Funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines." Neil Gaiman "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 "Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling." Time magazine "Wonderfully odd and original [and] very scary indeed." Sarah Waters

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