Blogging has taught me to love short stories. I can read one or two on any given weeknight, and finish an entire story while also whittling away at a book (that I can later review, yay!). Short stories are often dark and dangerous... which is perfect, because I still prefer small bites of horror, rather than novel-length ones. And if we're going to talk about great, fantastical short stories, Kelly Link must enter the mix. She is a master at both editing and writing tales of this size, and that's all there is to it. That's why I'm so excited for Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (EXCITED!). It will be released by Candlewick on September 9, 2014. Yay!
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 tea. Here you’ll find mercurial forms that burrow into warm fat, spectral boy toys, a Maori force of nature, a landform that claims lives, and an architect of hell on earth. Through these and a few monsters that defy categorization, some of today’s top young-adult authors explore ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders.
What books are you waiting on?
3 comments:
This sounds like some interesting stories! Thanks for sharing!
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Interesting. : )
Oh man, this sounds so good!
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