Pretty Monsters

Fantastic, fantastical stories from the favourite author of a host of other authors

Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, Pretty Monsters is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster with a sick sense of humour.

This edition also features a brand new story, 'The Cinderella Game'.

Winner of Locus Awards: Novella 2009 (United States) Short-listed for World Fantasy Award 2008 (United States)

• Wonderfully odd and original [and] very scary indeed. -- Sarah Waters 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 Kelly Link is the literary descendant of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. -- Audrey Niffenegger 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 Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling. Time Has plenty to tangle the imagination and leaves some endings tantalisingly hanging in the dark air. Daily Mail Against a backdrop of recognisable Americana, anything might happen, and usually does. The Observer brimming with singular observations and arresting takes on veryday lives, characters and situations...it's a rollercoaster read Books for Keeps

Kelly Link is the author of two previous collections, Stranger things Happen and Magic for Beginners. Her stories have won three Hebula awards, a hugo and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and 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.') Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.

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