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Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales

Link, Kelly

| 2014

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Predatory kraken that sing with--and for--their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side-by-side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling, to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you'll find mercurial forms that burrow into warm fat, spectral boy toys, a Maori force of nature, a landform that claims lives, and an architect of hell on earth. Through these, and a few monsters that defy categorization, some of today's top young-adult authors explore ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders.As in their acclaimed and award-winning anthology Steampunk , Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have brought together fifteen of the premier voices in speculative fiction to...

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