Pretty Monsters

Kelly Link

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847678201
• Print ISBN:
  9781847677846

Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, PRETTY MONSTERS is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night.

Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, 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.

Combining the imaginative brilliance of Borges with the madcap escapades of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more than a pinch of macabre humour, this is writing to come back from the dead for.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• About the Author
• Also by Kelly Link
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Wrong Grave
• The Wizards of Perfil
• Magic for Beginners
• The Faery Handbag
• The Specialist’s Hat
• Monster
• The Surfer
• The Constable of Abal
• Pretty Monsters
• The Cinderella Game
• Acknowledgments