White Cat, Black Dog

I can't stop thinking about the last story in this collection, in particular. It's beautifully atmospheric.

I’m a huge Kelly Link fan, and honestly this might be my favorite collection of hers yet. Eminently haunting

What is it about folk tales that unsettles us so? If you skip past the Disney versions of fairy and folk tales (perhaps with a detour to Angela Carter, which I definitely recommend) to the original Grimm Brothers or Charles Perrault or Giambattista Basile, you’ll find stories with strange rules that twist the ordinary into the frightening or the bizarre or the surreal. Kelly Link’s collection, White Cat, Black Dog, takes inspiration from classic and lesser-known folk tales that fascinate and disturb just like their precursors...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.