
Seven fairy tales retold in Link's sideways style, starting with a rich old man, his three sons and a cannabis farm in the Vermont hills run by cats.
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Stories set in a world one step to the side of this one: a convenience store that zombies visit at night, a handbag with a whole village inside it, and a group of friends obsessed with a pirate TV show that may be watching them back.

Nine stories in which ordinary people meet the uncanny, from a girl who keeps house for the uncanny summer people up the hill to a fading star of vampire movies filming a ghost-hunting show.

Harriet Lee, whose family gingerbread recipe has a history, tells her teenage daughter about growing up in Druhástrana, a country that may not appear on any map, and the friend she lost there.

A 1930s novelist who keeps killing off his heroines is challenged by his muse, Mary Foxe, to a game in which they take turns telling stories, while his wife grows suspicious.

Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.

Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.

Cursed at her name-day by a wicked fairy, the infant princess is spirited away to a remote village by a young fairy, Katriona, who raises her as an ordinary girl called Rosie, who can talk to animals.

Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.

Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.

Debut stories populated by werewolf-girl boarding schools, Minotaur cowboys, and sleep-disordered children in Florida swamps.

Andersen's stories, from 'The Little Mermaid' and 'The Snow Queen' to 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'The Little Match Girl', fairy tales with a melancholy edge that the Grimms never had.

To stave off her execution, Scheherazade tells the king a new story every night, and her nested tales of jinn, merchants and voyagers become a monument to the power of storytelling.