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(4) | None | Strange California is twenty-five tales of strangeness, lavishly illustrated, that will pull you into another world, a world where migrant girls stand up to witches who live in orange groves, where trickster magpies try to steal souls from Russian sisters in the early days of Fort Bragg, where water is both currency and predator, and Gold Rush-era ghosts wander the streets of San Francisco alongside panther ladies.This anthology developed out of a love for the complexity and diversity of the state-features reflected in both the landscape and the people that inhabit them. California sprawls across a multitude of landscapes and has amassed a history full of the strange and unusual. There are secrets in the desert. Secrets in the cities. Strange and unusual happenings in the odd, dark places of the coastal state.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Gates, Jaym | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Batt, J. Daniel | Editor | main author | all editions | confirmed | Barron, Natania | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Blackwell, Laura | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Brenchley, Chaz | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dagorn, Armel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dansky, Richard | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Deeds, Marion | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Elison, Meg | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ellsworth, Spencer | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Flox, AV | Introduction | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gilman, Laura Anne | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Holder, Nancy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Languzzi, Ezzy G | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lu, S. Qiouyi | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lundy, Patricia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mamatas, Nick | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | McGuire, Seanan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Monks, Melissa | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Morgenstern, D. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Pratt, Tim | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rhoads, Loren | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rochnik, KA | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Shoeman, Lance | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tobler, E Catherine | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Van Pelt, James | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wade, Juliette | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Willis, Suzanne J. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Zunger, Yonatan | Introduction | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dara, Galen | Cover artist | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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Anthology contains: - The great Tarantula migration of 1972 / Seanan McGuire
- Unsettlers of the Yerba Buena / Armel Dagorn
- Of webs and windows in Pescadero / Natania Barron
- Guardian of the Golden Gate / Loren Rhoads
- Magpie's curse / Marion Deeds
- Vines dig deep / Laura Anne Gilman
- Tommy bones and a packet of earth / Suzanne J. Willis
- All this'll by yours / Lance Shoeman
- A sea monster in the bathtub / Tim Pratt
- The Kodiak bell / Nick Mamatas
- From something emerging / S. Qiouyi Lu
- Uncanny valley / Chaz Brenchley
- The one thing I can never tell Julie / Laura Blackwell
- The panther lady's incredible true tale of horror! / K.A. Rochnik
- #Whiteknight vs. #Megadisruptor / Richard Dansky
- Five dollars for a ticket / James Van Pelt
- If it were meant to last / Juliette Wade
- The coffin birth / Patricia Lundy
- Heartsong / D. Morgenstern
- In loving memory / Meg Elison
- Dreamcatcher / Nancy Holder
- Five tales from the aqueduct / Spencer Ellsworth
- Naranjas inmortales / Ezzy G. Languzzi
- Salt in her hollows / E. Catherine Tobler
- The hanging tree's shade / Melissa Monks
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Strange California is twenty-five tales of strangeness, lavishly illustrated, that will pull you into another world, a world where migrant girls stand up to witches who live in orange groves, where trickster magpies try to steal souls from Russian sisters in the early days of Fort Bragg, where water is both currency and predator, and Gold Rush-era ghosts wander the streets of San Francisco alongside panther ladies.This anthology developed out of a love for the complexity and diversity of the state-features reflected in both the landscape and the people that inhabit them. California sprawls across a multitude of landscapes and has amassed a history full of the strange and unusual. There are secrets in the desert. Secrets in the cities. Strange and unusual happenings in the odd, dark places of the coastal state. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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