This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.
These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.
Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice’s 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
July 1, 2005
Kelly Link’s debut collection Stranger Things Happen is now available for as a free download in various completely open formats with no Digital Rights Management (DRM) strings attached. It is licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5) license allowing readers to share the stories with friends and generally have at them in any noncommercial manner. The book is provided below in these formats: Text file, HTML, rtf, and lo-res PDF. We encourage any and all conversions into other formats. We’ll happily host, credit, and add your conversion to the file list below. Please abide by these few rules for file-conversions:
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Send us a link to the reader for your conversion so that we can include it on the downloads page.
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No DRM. If your format of choice has a means of restricting copying, use or playback, please do not use it.
- If the book has been converted to your format of choice but the conversion doesn’t suit you, go ahead and reconvert it for your own use and distribution. We will host the first and only the first version as the few formats we have provided are pretty much all we know anything about. And we don’t know that much about those.
- Enjoy!
Downloads: To get your Free Download of Stranger Things Happen, please visit the Small Beer Press Creative Commons pages.
Hey guys,
None of the download links seem to work.
I’d love to read KL’s first collection. Is it no longer available for free?
-D
Douglas,
Whoops! Yes, the free downloads are still available from the Small Beer Press Creative Commons page, but the links have moved. Thanks for noticing! I’ve updated this page. You should be able to get to the downloads by clicking the link above.
Hi–
Just a heads up, the epub version for sale here is missing some text at the beginning of “Vanishing Act”.
Best,
Samantha
Hi Samantha, thanks for the note. We’ve posted an updated version (which will be in your Library if you are registered on the site). Looks like there were 2 words from the end of the 1st para moved to the start of the paragraph in a number of stories—sorry about that. And again, thanks for this, much appreciated.