Baker, Kage / Dark Mondays
Author Baker, Kage
Title Dark Mondays
Subtitle stories
Publish Date 2006
Publisher Night Shade Books
ISBN 9781597800518
Type Fiction (Paper)
LC Call # PS3552.A4313D37 2006
Genre Fantasy fiction
Short stories
Synopsis Kage Baker, celebrated creator of the Company novels and the standout collection Mother Aegypt, now brings together pirates, primates, eldritch horrors, maritime ghosts, and much more in Dark Mondays.
This captivating new collection of fantastic short fiction is sure to cement her reputation as one of the most original storytellers working in the fantasy and speculative fiction genres today.
Whether spinning tales of the mysterious young woman and the dreadful pirate captain Henry Morgan in the original novella "The Maid on the Shore", or the tiny California beach community assaulted by Lovecraftian terrors in "Calamari Curls", or the girl menaced by a haunting photograph and a trio of aspiring vampires at the heart of "Portrait, With Flames", Kage Baker distinguishes herself throughout Dark Mondays as a storyteller extraordinaire, crafting intricately woven plots, compelling characters, and captivating setting filled with convincing detail.
As likely to shock and surprise as it is to fill you with a sense of weird wonder and delight, Dark Mondays will entrance you with its inventive prose, astound you with its action, and seduce you with its style.

Sections

1. The two old women
2. Portrait, with flames
3. Monkey Day
4. Calamari curls
5. Katherine's story
6. Oh, false young man!
7. So this guy walks into a lighthouse
8. Silent Leonardo
9. The maid on the shore