Strange Mammals

"Jason Erik Lundberg's third collection, *Strange Mammals*, gathers 25 short stories in which literary naturalism gives way to the surreal, the absurd and the magical. […] Lundberg has the enviable talent of achieving emotionally resonant effects within just a few pages." —*The Guardian*

Strange superheroes and the magic of the quotidian; stories of piercing darkness and quirky, surreal humour; writing from the heart and soul; phantasmagorical journeys into what it means to be human.

*Strange Mammals* collects together stylish and elegant short fiction that knows no boundaries. Stories that are by turns fantastical, realist and strange, but which always move and surprise.

A breathtaking collection from an author whose writing "explores the randomness of magical occurrences" (*Green Man Review*) and "teems with imagination, location, originality, and fine writing" (Jeffrey Ford).

"Jason Erik Lundberg's stories, launched from the real world on a trajectory to the surreal, fuse the idle daydream with the desperate heart. You should read them." —John Kessel, author of *The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories*