Stranger Things Happen

<p><b>New edition with 16 interior illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.</b></p>
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Stories from <em>Stranger Things Happen</em> have won the Nebula Tiptree and World Fantasy Award. <em>Stranger Things Happen</em> was a <em>Salon</em> Book of the Year one of the <em>Village Voice</em>‘s 25 Favorite Books and was a Firecracker Award finalist.</p>