Amelia Gray is the author of AM/PM. Her writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, DIAGRAM, and Caketrain, among others. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she is the founder and co-host of the reading and music show Five Things.
"Amelia Gray's Museum of the Weird is a cabinet of curiosities--a
talking armadillo, a serial killer named God, a woman who amputates
her toes for dinner, a man married to a paring knife--this
collection of stories is so good and funny and wondrous that I
couldn't look away from her dark and curious imagination."
--Michael Kimball, author ofDear Everybody
"To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hilariously inventive hallows of
Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book
is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself,
wrought of magic equally surprising, wicked, giddy, and loaded with
a megaton of Boom." --Blake Butler, author of Scorch Atlas and
Ever
"The opening sentence of Amelia Gray's Museum of the Weird--'One
morning, I woke to discover I had given birth overnight'--could
serve as a metaphor for the creation of a certain type of story.
While many stories come into being through intense authorial
diligence and cogitation, others spring into existence in an
instant, discharging themselves onto the page almost by magic.
"Experienced writers know to approach these latter specimens with
skepticism. Inspiration has a seductive power: it wants you to
believe that its products are profound and important. Sometimes,
miraculously, they are. I don't know what kind of process Gray
employed to write the 24 uncategorizable stories in her eccentric
and intermittently arresting new collection, but they bear the
signs of having been born overnight. They feel inspired, and embody
all the weird energy that word implies, even as they struggle under
its burdens. "[The] best stories in Museum of the Weird register as
leaps of faith, brave excursions into the realms of the unreal --
and convince me that Gray may yet prove an important voice in
experimental writing."--New York Times Book Review
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