Dark Mondays
Dark Mondays brings together pirates, primates, eldritch horrors, maritime ghosts, and much more. This captivating new collection of fantastic short fiction is sure to cement her reputation as one of the most original storytellers working in the fantasy and speculative fiction genres today.
Whether spinning tales of the mysterious young woman and the dreadful pirate captain Henry Morgan in the original novella The Maid on the Shore, the tiny California beach community assaulted by Lovecraftian terrors in Calamari Curls, or the girl menaced by a haunting photograph and a trio of aspiring vampires at the heart of Portrait, With Flames, Kage Baker distinguishes herself throughoutDark Mondays as a storyteller extraordinaire, crafting intricately-woven plots, compelling characters, and captivating settings filled with convincing detail.
As likely to shock and surprise as it is to fill you with a sense of weird wonder and delight, Dark Mondays will entrance you with its inventive prose, astound you with its action, and seduce you with its style.
Contents:
- Two Old Women
- Portrait, With Flames
- Monkey Day
- Calamari Curls
- Katherine's Story
- Oh, False Young Man!
- So This Guy Walks Into a Lighthouse
- Silent Leonardo
- The Maid On the Shore
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Kage Baker
Kage Baker (1952–2010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Kage Baker was born in Hollywood, California and lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language.
Kage Baker is best known for her "Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1997, and her first novel, In The Garden of Iden, by Hodder & Stoughton in the same year. Other notable works include Mendoza in Hollywood (novel, 2000) and "The Empress of Mars" (novella, 2003), which was nominated for a Hugo Award.
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