Stranger Things Happen
A Salon.com Best Book of 2001.
Contents
- Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
- Water Off a Black Dog's Back
- The Specialist's Hat – 1999 World Fantasy Award
- Flying Lessons
- Travels with the Snow Queen – 1997 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
- Vanishing Act
- Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party
- Shoe and Marriage
- Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water
- Louise's Ghost – 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
- The Girl Detective
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.
These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.
Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
”An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” – Salon.com
”A delightful collection.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer
”My favorite fantasy writer.” – Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
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Kelly Link
Kelly Link (born in 1969) is an American author. Her stories might be described as slipstream or magical realism: sometimes a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.
Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995 she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop.
Link and her husband Gavin Grant manage Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. They also co-edit St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series, along with Ellen Datlow. Link has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops.
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