"Behind the Mask is a multi-author collection with stories by award-winning authors Kelly Link, Cat Rambo, Carrie Vaughn, Seanan McGuire, Lavie Tidhar, Sarah Pinsker, Keith Rosson, Kate Marshall, Chris Large and others. It is partially a prose nod to the comic world - the bombast, the larger-than-life, the save-the-worlds and the calls-to-adventure. But it’s also a spotlight on the more intimate side of the genre. The hopes and dreams of ..."
"Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume.Predatory kraken that sing with — and for — their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side by side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling to an eight-legged alien who makes ..."
Pretty Monsters(Main ed) Stories (Main ed) by KellyLink, Howard Hughes Paperback, 404 Pages, Published 2010 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-784-6, ISBN: 1-84767-784-3
"- Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imagination for millennia and fascinate us now more than ever. No longer confined to the image of a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, tough modern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly domestic spellcasters, darkly domineering, sexy enchantresses, ancient sorceresses, modern Wiccans, empowered or persecuted, possessors of superna ..."
"Imagine an altrnate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered a ..."
"For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, the most original-in short, the best fantasy and horror. The current collection, ..."
"From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel. The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets t ..."
"A hardback collection of all eight Ghosts of the Shadow Market stories, along with two brand new ones, about characters from Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling Shadowhunters series.The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, ..."
"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 ..."
Pretty Monsters Tall Tales To Keep You Up All Night by KellyLink Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Walker Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4063-3029-8, ISBN: 1-4063-3029-9
"Boiling up a brew of fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags. This title presents Kelly Link's tales."
"Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, the shockingly good Karen Russell, the unnerving James Sallis, and dozens of uncanny others, as well as useful lists of many kinds and straight-shooting advice from Aunt ..."
"For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by M. T. Anderson, Laird Barron, Simon Bestwick, Simon Brown, Stepan Chapman, Douglas Clegg, D. Ellis Dickerson, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jean Esteve, John Farris, Mélanie Fazi, Jeffrey Fo ..."
"For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field-- nearly four dozen stories, ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from ..."
""Among the stories collected in this omnibus, are some of the very first Joan Aiken stories that I ever fell in love with, starting with the title story 'The People in the Castle, ' which is a variation on the classic tales of fairy wives."--Kelly Link "[A] haunting and wondrous book."--Emily Nordling, Tor.com "This short story collection, edited by Aiken's daughter Lizza and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist Kelly Link, co ..."
Dread and Delight(1st Edition) Fairy Tales in an Anxious World by Emily Stamey, KellyLink Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2018 by Weatherspoon Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-890949-17-4, ISBN: 1-890949-17-5
"Published by the Weatherspoon Art MuseumDread and Delight features the work of contemporary artists using canonical fairy tales to examine the complexities of postmodern life. In the history of art, the widespread use of fairy tales is new—a phenomenon of the late twentieth century that continues to gain traction. Surveying some forty years of artistic production, this is the first book to consider why artists have turned to fairy tales ..."
"A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaima ..."
The Summer People by KellyLink 64 Pages, Published 2015 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-698-1, ISBN: 1-78211-698-2
". . The Summer People is a bite-sized sample of Link's incomparable writing, telling the story of Fran, her friend Ophelia, and their adventures at the house belonging to the mysterious and rarely glimpsed 'summer people'."
Get in Trouble Stories by KellyLink Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Random House, New York, Ny ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-7971-3, ISBN: 0-8041-7971-9
"Thanks to the editors that I've had the good fortune to work with, among them
Ellen Datlow, Rob Spillman, Brigid Hughes, Francis Bickmore, Stephanie Perkins
, Gwenda Bond,Yuka Igarishi, and Deborah Noyes.Thanks to Taryn Fagerness.
Thanks to Renée Zuckerbrot, who is the best agent in the world, and to Molly
Bean, the best dachshund. Thanks to my fantastic editor, Noah Eaker, for his care
, his insight, and his enthusiasm.Thanks to Cai ..."
Monstrous Affections An Anthology of Beastly Tales by KellyLink, Gavin J. Grant 480 Pages, Published 2014 by Candlewick Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-7085-6, ISBN: 0-7636-7085-5
"B. ehind the shopping center is the parking lot; and behind the parking lot is the
drainage ditch; and behind the drainage ditch, before the back lawns of the
housing development, are the woods. The woods are narrow and ugly, their
borders uninviting. On one side the random refuse of commerce: the cigarette
butts of cashiers on break, empty foil potato chip bags faded to sooty pastels,
cardboard boxes rain-soaked to ink-stained pul ..."