num_pages: 480
description: 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 with - and for - their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to 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 you'll 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 today's 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.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
language: English
title: Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales
publisher: Candlewick Press