The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken

A channel tunnel, which allows wolves into England, has been constructed. Almost none of her many adult novels contain explicit fantasy content, though some have supernatural implications of these titles, Castle Barebane ( 1976) is a streamlined Gothic and The Haunting of Lamb House (coll of linked stories 1991), set in the actual Lamb House in Rye, exposes two of its real-life inhabitants – Henry James (1843-1916) and E F Benson – to the ghost of an eighteenth-century child who has had to endure the breakup of his family.Īiken was never strongly drawn to the writing of sf, though her most famous sequence – the Wolves Chronicles, also variously referred to as the Willoughby Chase, Alternate England, Dido Twite or James III series, beginning with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase ( 1962) and ending with The Witch of Clatteringshaws ( 2005) – is set in a genuine (if at times pixillated) Alternate History version of Britain where the Stuart dynasty has survived (James III has acceded in 1832), though Hanoverian plots against the throne abound (directly reversing the historical record). Visit her online at: UK author, daughter of Conrad Aiken, stepdaughter of Martin Armstrong, and sister of John Aiken best known as a highly prolific author of fantasy for children and Young Adult readers. She went on to write for Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, Argosy, Women's Own, and many others. After her first husband's death, she supported her family by copyediting at Argosy magazine and an advertising agency before turning to fiction. Best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (1924-2004) wrote over a hundred books and won the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards. This hugely imaginative collection includes introductions by Aiken as well as by her daughter, Lizza Aiken. After his death, a large, black, argumentative cat makes an appearance.

or is the village itself the story? There's an English vicar who declares on his deathbed that he might have lived an entirely different life. Here you'll find the story of a village for sale. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym Nicholas Dee.

They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary.

Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years.

The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken