Kelly Link Books in Order

A collection of stories brings supernatural disturbances into ordinary relationships, weaving zombies, witches, haunted shops, and inexplicable events through domestic life. Familiar anxieties about marriage, connection, and belonging become inseparable from the increasingly strange worlds surrounding the characters.

Fran introduces her friend Ophelia to the mysterious house of the rarely seen summer people. As Fran’s stories about its inhabitants become more extraordinary, their experiences blur the boundary between imagination, obligation, and an increasingly unsettling reality.

Seven stories reshape traditional fairy tales through contemporary lives, from a billionaire’s inheritance tests to a mysterious house-sitting assignment. Their characters seek affection, purpose, and escape in worlds where the strange and the everyday repeatedly intrude on each other.

Three teenagers believed dead return to their Massachusetts hometown under a bargain requiring them to perform magical tasks. As supernatural rivals converge and their families struggle to understand, they must uncover the truth about their deaths and protect their community.

These stories follow young people through worlds where ghosts, monsters, magic, and ordinary anxieties overlap. A grandmother’s impossible handbag, an unsettling television show, and a boy’s visit to a grave turn familiar questions of belonging into stranger adventures.

Eleven stories place fragile relationships and everyday desires in unsettling worlds of ghosts, strange transformations, and impossible encounters. Detectives, lovers, newlyweds, and grieving people move through tales that borrow from folklore while questioning how their own lives work.