Kelly Link
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas, 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 and her family live 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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Heart-Shaped Box
I started reading HEART-SHAPED BOX late one evening and never put it down. The house could have caught fire and I never would have noticed. Joe Hill’s debut novel is rich with moments of terror and redemption and strangeness, but it’s also that rare beast of a book that hooks you from the very first paragraph and doesn’t let go. Books as good as this book, characters as interesting and likeable as these characters, writers like Joe Hill, don’t come along very often and when they do, you feel like celebrating. But why waste time reading a blurb when you could be starting in on the first couple of pages? Bet you keep on reading.
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Magic for Beginners (0)
Best of the Decade: Salon, The A.V. Club
"If I had to pick the most powerfully original voice in fantasy today, it would be Kelly Link. Her stories begin in a world very much like our own, but then, following some mysterious alien geometry, they twist themselves into something fantastic and, frequently, horrific. …
Best American Fantasy 2 (0)
A prestigious anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.
Stranger Things Happen: Stories (0)
“An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”“—Salon.com (Best of the Year)
”A delightful collection.“—”Cleveland Plain Dealer"
“My favorite fantasy writer.”—Alan Cheuse, “All Things Considered”
"Link’s stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working …
Sympathy for the Devil (0)
The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short s…
Stranger Things Happen (Large Print 16pt) (0)
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-danc…
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (0)
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…
