Let’s Get Weird: Short Story Collections You Might Have Missed
Looking for something unusual to read? Try one of these weird and wonderful short story collections.
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Add to BookshelfThe Sea Beast Takes a Lover
by Michael Andreasen
Unreal landscapes and unexpected transformations are part and parcel of Michael Andreasen’s new collection, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover. However, the themes these stories explore are universal and familiar: faith, family, love, and longing. No matter who you are in Andreasen’s world — even an amorous sea monster, or an alien abductee — there’s no escaping the need to connect with others.
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Awayland
by Ramona Ausubel
Ramona Ausubel’s stories are a map to the wildest corners of the human heart: places where loved ones slip away into nothingness, and mythical beasts plumb the internet in search of companionship. Visitors to Awayland may find it hard to return to their own world — and they may not want to it all.
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Aetherial Worlds
by Tatyana Tolstaya
These eighteen stories from one of modern Russia’s finest writers are rife with ghosts, dreamers, and travelers: disaffected souls scrabbling for meaning and fulfillment in a world reluctant to provide either. Abundant with humor, sadness, and absurdity, Aetherial Worlds is a collection not easily put aside.
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Hall of Small Mammals
by Thomas Pierce
Resurrected wooly mammoths, romantically challenged physicists, comedians, and other unusual characters populate the pages of Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals: a story collection both hilarious and strange. Processed through Pierce’s unique imagination, the everyday concerns of our lives are rendered into exotic and beautiful anomalies.
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Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
Kelly Link’s tales are like peeks into a parallel dimension, familiar yet exotic. Following a dreamlike logic of her own, Link takes us to places where fairies hide in handbags, and the threat of a zombie apocalypse is always just around the corner.
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Voices in the Night
by Steven Millhauser
Drawing inspiration from myth and fable, author Steven Millhauser explores the unlikely and impossible: a world of barely remembered dreams, secret desires, and shadowy possibilities just around the next corner. These are stories of what could have been, and what may yet be, if only we’re brave enough to stray from familiar paths.
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Three Moments of an Explosion
by China Miéville
China Miéville’s short fiction is just as captivating as his novels. A literary virtuoso and master of multiple genres, Miéville constantly surprises with the breadth and originality of his prose. Stories of machines come to life, secrets hidden in the flesh, and the environment run amok make Three Moments of an Explosion one you won’t want to miss.
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
by Helen Oyeyemi
Is a lock an obstacle or protector? Should every key be turned? These, and other questions, are explored in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: a collection of short stories from built around the theme of keys — literal and metaphorical. Hidden gardens, carefully maintained secrets, and forbidden books are all here waiting to be discovered, and Oyeyemi holds the keys.
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