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Pretty Monsters
2010
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
269
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A lonely boy in bungalow 6 is taunted by the other kids on camp. Then he meets a monster in the snow, a monster with a sense of humour. He is the only one to talk to it, but only after it has eaten the rest of bungalow 6. Dorn misses his soccer match when his father kidnaps him to be held in quarantine under machine-gun guard in Costa Rica-while they wait for the aliens to return. Zilla, a ghost, is not greedy. She does not bleed her clients dry; she milks them. After all, there is only so much blood a grown woman and a smallish girl have to spare. The world is full of things and nobody ever sees them! Nobody except for you and me. And you will see the things that nobody sees...inside Pretty Monsters the companion volume to The Wrong Grave, from the highly acclaimed sorceress of fantasy stories, Kelly Link. Librarian note: Despite having the same title, this edition contains only half of stories from the original "Pretty Monsters", with the other half available in "The Wrong Grave".

Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
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Author

Kelly Link
Kelly Link
Author · 31 books

Kelly Link is an American author best known for her short stories, which span a wide variety of genres - most notably magic realism, fantasy and horror. She is a graduate of Columbia University. Her stories have been collected in four books - Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and most recently, Get in Trouble. She has won several awards for her short stories, including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for "The Specialist's Hat", and the Nebula Award both in 2001 and 2005 for "Louise's Ghost" and "Magic for Beginners". Link also works as an editor, and is the founder of independant publishing company, Small Beer Press, along with her husband, Gavin Grant.

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