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Adult Books - Fiction - Horror Fiction
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Magic for Beginners.
Link, Kelly (author).
July 2005. 232p. Small Beer, hardcover, $24 (1-931520-15-1).
REVIEW.
First published June 1, 2005 (Booklist).
An all-night convenience store’s regular customers include zombies and a beautiful woman who drives a car full of ghost dogs. Some middle-aged guys in a basement playing cards call up one of those phone lines and listen to a little-girl’s voice tell about how one of them is being haunted by many versions, at different ages, of his ex-wife. A guy just out of prison crashes a teenagers’ drinking party and drives off with the hostess’ six-year-old brother (it’s not what you think, or doesn’t seem to be). A middle-class family moves from Manhattan to a suburban house; almost immediately, parts of the house and things that they moved into it become haunted; well, at least there are all those rabbits on guard, maybe, on the lawn. Each of these stories is much stranger than it sounds. You’d like to know what happens after they end but aren’t sure about what happened in them. Move over, Russell Edson. Link is the purest, most distinctive surrealist in America, and she doesn’t stop at prose-poem length. — Ray Olson
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