Best Kelly Link Audiobooks
Kelly Link occupies a strange and singular corner of contemporary fiction — her work dissolves genre boundaries so completely that calling it fantasy or horror or literary fiction feels beside the point. Stories from White Cat, Black Dog drift between fairy tale logic and domestic realism with an eerie, dreamlike confidence, never quite explaining themselves and never needing to. Her prose is precise and strange in equal measure: each sentence lands cleanly, but the accumulated effect is deeply unsettling. The Book of Love shows her expanding that sensibility into longer form without losing the uncanny compression that makes her short fiction so memorable. Link is essential reading for anyone who finds conventional genre fiction too tidy — readers who want their stories to leave a residue of unease long after the last page.
Where to Start with Kelly Link
- Best entry point → The Book of Love
- Best standalone → Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute
- What fans keep coming back to → White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
- Highest rated by listeners → Zombies: The Recent Dead
Best Kelly Link Audiobooks
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Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute
by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu
Narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.80 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (182)More about this pick
Celebrating Bradbury's legacy, this collection features stories by Gaiman, Hill, and others, with an impressive cast including George Takei and Neil Gaiman himself reading these homages.
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White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
by Kelly Link, Shaun Tan
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, Kristen Sieh, Ish Klein, Tanya Cubric, Patton Oswalt
★ 3.75 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (7.7K) ★ 4.06 Audible (66)More about this pick
Seven narrators tackle Link's fairy tale reimaginings, where Hansel and Gretel run a restaurant and Bluebeard's story unfolds through dating apps.
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4
by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan
Narrated by Kristin James, Matt Godfrey
★ 3.59 ABR Score (436 ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (431) ★ 4 Audible (5)More about this pick
From haunted houses to mysterious green stones, this collection explores darkness in everyday places through stories by Peter Straub, Kelly Link, and other masters of the genre.
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The Book of Love
by Kelly Link
Narrated by January LaVoy
★ 3.49 ABR Score (11.3K ratings)★ 3.49 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 3.77 Audible (186)More about this pick
Three teenagers wake beneath their high school after dying, facing supernatural mysteries and varieties of love in Link's magical realist tale of friendship and family bonds.
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Zombies: The Recent Dead
by Paula Guran, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, L J Ganser, Josh Hurley, Bahni Turpin, Marc Vietor
★ 3.29 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (939) ★ 3.4 Audible (268)More about this pick
From voodoo thralls to viral victims, this massive anthology proves zombies are monumentally mutable monsters, with multiple narrators handling each imaginative interpretation.