New edition with 16 interior illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.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, and was a Firecracker Award finalist.
| ISBN-13: | 9781931520003 |
| ISBN-10: | 1931520003 |
| Publisher: | Small Beer Press |
| Publication date: | 2001-07-01 |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 8.5 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.799 Pounds, Width: 0.7 Inches |
| Author: | Kelly Link |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Paperback |
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