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These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories

10 best books like These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories (Jim Knipfel): The Bird of the River, Animals, Baaa, Daddy's, Attic Clowns, The Stupids Have a Ball, 1000 Tattoos, Return of the Dapper Men, Ghosts by Gaslight, Villains Victorious

The Bird of the River
AuthorKage Baker
In this new story set in the world of The Anvil of the World and The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their addict mother is drowned. The girl and her half-breed younger brother try to make the barge their new home. As the great boat proceeds up the long river, we see a...
Animals
AuthorDon LePan
ISBN9781550632
Animals is set in an indeterminate future in which virtually all the species that humans have for millennia used as food have become extinct; the world this change creates is at once eerily foreign and disturbingly familiar. In the sharp-edged poignancy of the ethical questions it poses, in the strikingly...
Baaa
AuthorDavid Macaulay
ISBN0395395887


where humans have gone extinct, sheep begin to take our places.

Sadly, for them, they adopt all our nasty habits - even the really DIRTY stuff like banking and politics!

(How this is all accomplished without opposable thumbs is anyone's guess . . .)

As you might imagine,...
Daddy's
AuthorLindsay Hunter
ISBN0982580800
Lindsay Hunter tells the stories no one else will in ways no one else can. In this down and dirty debut she draws vivid portraits of bad people in worse places. A woman struggles to survive her boyfriend's terror preparations. A wife finds that the key to her sex life lies in her dog’s electric collar....
Attic Clowns
AuthorJeremy C. Shipp
ISBN0984751912
BEWARE THE CLOWNS IN THE ATTIC—LEST YOU BECOME ONE YOURSELF!

Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap—all of them trapped...
The Stupids Have a Ball
AuthorHarry Allard
ISBN0808534998
A is for Allard
The Stupids Have a Ball by Harry Allard and James Marshall, as reinterpreted by Betty Lou from Circulation
Beware, Thar be... you know what? Forget it. Onward!
The book begins with a scathing indictment of the national education system as well as parenting as both children...
1000 Tattoos
AuthorHenk Schiffmacher
ISBN3822841072
An exploration of tattoos past and present Whether you’re thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This special 25th anniversary edition of Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs...
Return of the Dapper Men
AuthorJim McCann
ISBN1932386904
Welcome to Anorev, a world in between time, where children have played so long it’s almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time. This is how this land has remained, until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky and...
Ghosts by Gaslight
AuthorJack Dann
ISBN0061999717
Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!

Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts...
Villains Victorious
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0886779804
2.5 stars. A decent collection of stories in which the "bad guy" wins. Most of the stories are just okay and quickly forgettable but there are a few standouts. "Horror Show" by Tim Waggoner about a washed up monster actor who meets his on screen character is worth reading as is "To Speak With Angels" by Michelle...
Where the Money Went
AuthorKevin Canty
ISBN0385525850
Kevin Canty is a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. In Where the Money Went, he surprises us with stories about love and the desertion of love, all written from a man’s point of view. Rarely is a man so revealing.

A narrator...
Do They Know I'm Running?
AuthorDavid Corbett
ISBN0812977556
From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.

Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he’s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran...
Alone With You
AuthorMarisa Silver
ISBN1416590293
Eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself.

Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her critically acclaimed The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as “a...
The Cabal and Other Stories
AuthorEllen Gilchrist
ISBN0316169226
The collection was good in total, the stories appear to put the backstory in play with The Cabal. I felt somewhat let down, with The Cabal, it seemed like everyone in the story was so concerned with the Psychiatrist who had all the vices on everyone. I felt it was perfect for the breakdown of the Psychiatrist...
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
AuthorBen Loory
ISBN0143119508
Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and jocular octopi–who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments...
How to Mellify a Corpse: and Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition
AuthorVicki León
ISBN0802717020
In How to Mellify a Corpse, Vicki León brings her particular hybrid of history and humor to the entwined subjects of science and superstition in the ancient world, from Athens and Rome to Mesopotamia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Carthage. León covers subjects as diverse as astronomy and astrology,...
The Mammoth Book of Tattoos
AuthorLal Hardy
There's no history or analysis here, just short bios of various artists, along with examples of their art.

Some standouts:

George Bardadim's truly gorgeous black and grey work.

Big Gus' stunning black and grey Native American piece that I believe may be based on "Hiawatha"?

Steve...
The Patterns of Paper Monsters
AuthorEmma Rathbone
Jacob Higgins's teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he's indifferent to school and his friends--though a little less casual about girls and marijuana. His antics have landed him in a North Virginia...
Go, Mutants!
AuthorLarry Doyle
ISBN0061686557
Larry Doyle, the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, returns with Go, Mutants!, a hilariously outrageous novel of teenage angst and restlessness, populated with heroes and villains straight out of the classic sci-fi and teen movies of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal...
Vampire a Go-Go
AuthorVictor Gischler
ISBN1416552278
Victor Gischler is a master of the class-act literary spoof, and his work has drawn comparison to that of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon.
Now, Gischler turns his attention to werewolves, alchemists, ghosts, witches, and gun-toting Jesuit priests in Vampire a Go-Go, a hilarious...
Why I Fight: The Belt Is Just an Accessory
AuthorB.J. Penn
ISBN0061803650
Claiming that “the belt is just an accessory,” Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Champion B.J. Penn explains Why I Fight in this honest, intimate, and fascinating memoir. Written with David Weintraub, Why I Fight is an unforgettable portrait of one of the top and most recognizable...
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure
AuthorJack Pendarvis
ISBN1596920548
Laugh-out-loud funny and dripping with style, this debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd. From the self-appointed historian of the title piece to the wage slaves of ?Our Spring Catalog? and ?The Pipe, ? these are characters...
The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
AuthorRick Beyer
ISBN0060760176
Search the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved the Byzantine Empire. The World War I battle that was halted so a soccer game could be played. The scientist who invented a pigeon-guided missile in 1943....
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