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10 best books like Trampoline: An Anthology (Kelly Link): The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010, Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder, Thirst, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes, A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish, Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, The Apex Book of World SF 2, Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
AuthorPaula Guran
ISBN1607012332
Darkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys,...
Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN0486432017
Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878–1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote:...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
AuthorRuss Kick
ISBN1609803809
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"

The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
AuthorMark Crick
ISBN0151012830
I needed a table at Maxim’s, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner’s handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was...
A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish
AuthorGeorge Saunders
A quick seven stories/essays, some of which are contained in "The Braindead Megaphone." Saunders is hilarious throughout, and I especially love "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" where Saunders proposes flooding the entirety of nations into one another for a period of time,...
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN0312863500
Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered here in this volume...
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
AuthorDelia Sherman
ISBN1931520240
Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...
The Apex Book of World SF 2
AuthorLavie Tidhar
An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist...
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
AuthorMaureen F. McHugh
ISBN1931520194
In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.

Contents:
Ancestor...
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
ISBN1892389541
From Delusions of Universal Grandeur to Twentieth Century Chronoshock, this amusing pocket guide to concocted diseases - designed and illustrated by John Coulthart - features an anthology of slightly morbid, darkly humorous ailments and prognosis srved up by such renowned luminaries as Neil Gaiman,...
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic
AuthorEduardo Jiménez Mayo
ISBN1931520313
A huge, energetic, and ambitious groundbreaking anthology from emerging and established Mexican authors which showcases all-new supernatural folktales, alien incursions, ghost stories, apocalyptic narratives, and more. Stereotypes of Mexican identities and fictions are identified and...
Lord Tophet
AuthorGregory Frost
ISBN0345497597
Daughter of the legendary shadow-puppeteer Bardsham, Leodora has inherited her father’s skills . . . and his enemies. Together with her manager–Soter, keeper of her father’s darkest secrets, and a gifted young musician named Diverus, Leodora has traveled from span to span, her masked performances...
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers...
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists
AuthorBradford Morrow
ISBN0941964558
For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their connections to the genres they have been radically redefining...
Best New Horror 15
AuthorStephen Jones
ISBN0786714263
This edition of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror comes with another generous sampling of the past year's best horror fiction, earning acclamations from the likes of Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. With contributions from such favorites as Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, along with the talented...
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801623
To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true...

In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies...
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology
AuthorGordon Van Gelder
ISBN1892391910
Collecting more than two dozen stories that originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the premiere speculative fiction magazine—this extraordinary anthology celebrates 60 years of top-notch genre fiction.

This retrospective volume includes "All Summer...
This Shape We're In
AuthorJonathan Lethem
ISBN0970335520
The novella is about a former General with a drinking problem sent by his shrewish wife to rescue their son from chanting as a cultist for something called the Third Eye. Oh yes, and they're all microscopic humanish creatures living inside a horse. So the general travels to the eye where his son is and along...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0312341946
For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by M. T. Anderson, Laird Barron, Simon Bestwick,...
McSweeney's #28
AuthorDave Eggers
In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case, McSweeney’s 28 explores the state of the fable—those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn’t see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can’t...
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic
AuthorAlberto Manguel
ISBN0517575590
Contents
The Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson ·
It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby ·
The Door · E. B. White ·
Mysterious Kôr · Elizabeth Bowen ·
Nights at Serampore · Mircea Eliade ·
The Dead Fiddler · Isaac Bashevis Singer ·
The Phoenix · Sylvia Townsend...
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