Feeling rejected, Charlie, an artist, is drawn into a destructive new relationship with her sexy older co-worker, a "semifamous" local musician who's obviously a junkie alcoholic. But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends. After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she "like-likes" but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. YA)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Although the authors have avoided the obvious (a notable shortage of zombie tales, for example), this potent mix of horror stories, with its literary touches that range from the humorous to the horrific, will attract readers with its promising title and keep them riveted to these splendid tales. Anderson’s “The Gray Boy’s Work” depicts the aftermath of a man’s participation in the American Revolution and Holly Black’s “The Poison Eaters” depicts a venomous family in a kingdom that never was. Kelly Link’s funny “The Wrong Grave” takes a punk/gothic view of a teen poet’s reaction to his girlfriend’s death M. As should be expected, stories in this excellent grouping have a broad range of styles, themes and settings. Fantasy readers will recognize some authors-Libba Bray, Holly Black, Chris Wooding-while others’ stories will introduce whole new bodies of work.
A companion volume to the collection Gothic (2004), this impressive anthology presents original short stories spotlighting the work of ten masters of dark fantasy.
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