In this Book
- Museum of the Weird
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
Winner of FC2’s American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
A stunning collection of stories that reveal wondrous play and surreal humor
A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate—a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray’s stunning collection of stories: Museum of the Weird.
Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amidst the humor. Characters find their footing in these bizarre scenarios and manage to fall into redemption and rebirth. Museum of the Weird invites you into its hallways, then beguiles, bewitches, and reveals a writer who has discovered a manner of storytelling all her own.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-9
- Unsolved Mystery
- pp. 23-26
- A Javelina Story
- pp. 31-34
- The Darkness
- pp. 35-38
- The Cottage Cheese Diet
- pp. 39-40
- Death of a Beast
- pp. 41-44
- Thoughts While Strolling
- pp. 45-54
- Code of Operation: Snake Farm
- pp. 59-62
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- pp. 63-66
- There Will Be Sense
- pp. 79-92
- Diary of the Blockage
- pp. 93-106
- Love, Mortar
- pp. 111-114
- This Quiet Complex
- pp. 115-118
- The Picture Window
- pp. 149-152
- The Vanished
- pp. 153-156
- The Suitcase
- pp. 157-164
- The Movement
- pp. 165-171
Additional Information
Copyright
2010