Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales

✍ Scribed by Link, Kelly (editor); Grant, Gavin J (editor)

• Book ID: 108396415
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780763664732

✦ Synopsis

Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume. Predatory kraken that sing withand fortheir kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as 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 youll 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 todays 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.

Word Count : 131736 Page : 459