TY - BOOK AU - Link,Kelly AU - Grant,Gavin J. TI - Monstrous affections: an anthology of beastly tales SN - 9780763664732 AV - PZ5 .M819 2014 U1 - SC MON KW - Monsters KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Short stories KW - Horror tales KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Fiction KW - Horror stories KW - Fantasy N1 - "A Junior Library Guild selection."--Back cover; Moriabe's Children / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Old souls / Cassandra Clare -- Ten rules for being an intergalactic smuggler (the successful kind) / Holly Black -- Quick hill / M.T. Anderson -- The diabolist / Nathan Ballingrud -- This whole demoning thing / Patrick Ness -- Wings in the morning / Sarah Rees Brennan -- Left foot, right / Nalo Hopkinson -- The Mercurials / G. Carl Purcell -- Kitty Capulet and the invention of underwater photography / Dylan Horrocks -- Son of abyss / Nik Houser -- A small wild magic / Kathleen Jennings -- The new boyfriend / Kelly Link -- The woods hide in plain sight / Joshua Lewis -- Mothers, lock up your daughters because they are terrifying / Alice Sola Kim; Young Adult N2 - An anthology of stories explores the intersection of fear and romance, ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders; 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. Explore ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013953536-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013953536-d.html ER -