Scare yourself with Kelly Link’s Pretty Monsters
Nominated for a 2009 World Fantasy Award, this weird, wicked, spooky and delicious book of tall tales will keep you up all night. Read one of the stories here on Bookhugger.
Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other in Pretty Monsters, 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 who claims to have a sense of humour.
Kelly Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and publish the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She 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.’)
Read extract from Pretty Monsters
