Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

An eclectic collection of sharp, genre-bending short stories that mix fairy-tale eeriness, urban surrealism, and pop-culture hauntings. The tales shift between whimsy and dread, following characters—often young people and families—as ordinary domestic life collides with impossible, uncanny intrusions, exploring memory, desire, and the strange rules of storytelling itself. Witty, inventive, and emotionally resonant, the writing turns small, familiar moments into unsettling, luminous fables.

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