Product Description

This first collection 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-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.

These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13282 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

Salon.com
"An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

The New York Times Book Review
She embraces fantasy in its fullest sense and in doing so transcends all considerations of genre.

The Washington Post
Stranger Things Happen is a tremendously appealing book...

Customer Reviews

queen of the new weird.
Kelly Link's stories have a playful aproach to genre, structure and plot but to center in this is utterly missleading. They are worth reading because of a stunnig gift for character. They touch a nerve, some basic human concerns we all share : love, lust, loneliness you pick your choice.
On the other hand, stories in this collection has won all the major awards in genre fiction.
So these tales feature both the human heart and all its contradiction and some of the best gosth stories you are ever going to read.