Stranger Things Happen

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-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.

Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice’s 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.

Contents:
– Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1998)
– Water Off a Black Dog’s Back (1995)
– The Specialist’s Hat (1998)
– Flying Lessons (1995)
– Travels with the Snow Queen (1996/1997)
– Vanishing Act (1996)
– Survivor’s Ball, or, The Donner Party (1998)
– Shoe and Marriage (2000)
– Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water (2001)
– Louise’s Ghost (2001)
– The Girl Detective (1999)

Cover painting by Shelley Jackson