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Title: The Specialist's Hat Title Record # 92823
Author: Kelly Link
Date: 1998-11-15
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: podcastle.org
Language: English
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Current Tags: horror (1), ghosts (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
2006 Hungarian A hívó kalapja
2008Translated by Michelle Charrier
French
Le chapeau du spécialiste?Le chapeau du specialiste
2011Translated by Maia Figueroa Evans
Spanish El gorro del especialista

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Win 1999 World Fantasy Best Short Fiction

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Event Horizon, November 15, 1998 1998-11-15 ed. Ellen Datlow Pamela Weintraub      
webzine?Used for Internet-based periodical publications which are otherwise not downloadable as an "ebook".
mag  
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection 1999-08-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Press 0-312-20962-2
$29.95?$: US dollar
cx+
497
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Thomas Canty Checkmark
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection 1999-08-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-20686-0
$17.95?$: US dollar
cx+
497
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Thomas Canty Checkmark
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection 1999-09-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Press / SFBC 03374
$14.98?$: US dollar
cx+
496
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Thomas Canty Checkmark
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten 1999-10-00 ed. Stephen Jones Robinson 1-84119-064-0
£6.99?£: UK pound
xv+
489
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Joe Roberts  
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten 1999-11-00 ed. Stephen Jones Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0690-2
$10.95?$: US dollar
xv+
489
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Joe Roberts Checkmark
Stranger Things Happen 2001-07-00 Kelly Link Jelly Ink / Small Beer Press 1-931520-00-3
$16.00?$: US dollar
266
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Shelley Jackson Checkmark
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic 2004-08-00 ed. F. Brett Cox, Andy Duncan Tor 0-765-30813-4
$24.95?$: US dollar
380
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Howard Grossman Checkmark
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic 2005-07-00 ed. F. Brett Cox, Andy Duncan Tor 0-765-30814-2
$15.95?$: US dollar
384
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Howard Grossman  
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology 2006-06-00 ed. James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel Tachyon Publications 978-1-892391-35-3
$14.95?$: US dollar
xv+
288
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Isabelle Rozenbaum Checkmark
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology 2008-05-22 ed. James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel Paw Prints 978-1-4352-8257-5
$23.95?$: US dollar
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Pretty Monsters 2008-10-02 Kelly Link Viking 978-0-670-01090-5
$19.99?$: US dollar
389
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Will Staehle Checkmark
Pretty Monsters 2008-10-02 Kelly Link Speak / Penguin Books (US) 978-1-101-21542-5
$9.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Wrong Grave [subset 1 of 2] 2009-08-31 Kelly Link Text Publishing 978-1-921520-73-0
A$19.95?A$: Australian dollar
202
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Shaun Tan  
Pretty Monsters 2009-10-01 Kelly Link Canongate Books 978-1-84767-783-9
£12.99?£: UK pound
389
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Will Staehle Checkmark
Pretty Monsters 2009-10-04 Kelly Link Canongate Books 978-1-84767-820-1
£7.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Will Staehle  
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010-03-00 ed. Ellen Datlow Tachyon Publications 978-1-892391-95-7
$15.95?$: US dollar
470
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Ann Monn Checkmark
Pretty Monsters 2010-06-10 Kelly Link Speak / Penguin Books (US) 978-0-14-241672-3
$9.99?$: US dollar
404
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Will Staehle  
Pretty Monsters 2010-06-10 Kelly Link Turtleback Books 978-0-606-15009-5
$23.30?$: US dollar
416
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Will Staehle  
Pretty Monsters 2010-07-01 Kelly Link Canongate Books 978-1-84767-784-6
£8.99?£: UK pound
416
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Will Staehle  
Pretty Monsters 2010-07-05 Kelly Link Walker Books (UK) 978-1-4063-3029-8
£7.99?£: UK pound
416
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2011-10-31 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Corvus 978-0-85789-487-8
£25.00?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2012-05-08 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tor 978-0-7653-3360-5
$39.99?$: US dollar
xx+
1126
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2012-05-08 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tor / SFBC 1356431
$22.99?$: US dollar
xx+
1126
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2012-05-08 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tor 978-0-7653-3362-9
$29.99?$: US dollar
xx+
1126
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
Stranger Things Happen 2012-11-30 Kelly Link Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-521-5
$75.00?$: US dollar
228
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Kathleen Jennings Checkmark
PodCastle, #357 2015-03-31 ed. Anna Schwind, Dave Thompson Escape Artists, Inc.  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
mag Checkmark
Ghostly 2015-09-24 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Vintage (UK) (Vintage Classics) 978-1-78487-008-9
£14.99?£: UK pound
464
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Audrey Niffenegger  
Ghostly 2015-09-24 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Vintage (UK) (Vintage Classics) 978-1-78487-006-5
£14.99?£: UK pound
xii+
450
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Audrey Niffenegger  
Ghostly 2015-09-29 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Knopf Canada 978-0-345-81031-1
C$32.95?C$: Canadian dollar
464
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Audrey Niffenegger  
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories 2015-10-00 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Scribner 978-1-5011-1119-8
$28.00?$: US dollar
x+
449+
[3]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Audrey Niffenegger Checkmark
Ghostly 2015-10-06 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Scribner 978-1-5011-1121-1
$14.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Audrey Niffenegger  
Ghostly 2018-09-06 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Vintage (UK) 978-1-78487-007-2
£9.99?£: UK pound
464
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Audrey Niffenegger  
Ghostly 2023-10-03 ed. Audrey Niffenegger Scribner 978-1-5011-1120-4
$20.00?$: US dollar
x+
449
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Audrey Niffenegger  
Stranger Things Happen date unknown Kelly Link Jelly Ink / Small Beer Press 978-1-931520-00-3
$16.00?$: US dollar
266
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Shelley Jackson Checkmark
Stranger Things Happen date unknown Kelly Link Jelly Ink / Small Beer Press 978-1-931520-00-3
$16.00?$: US dollar
266
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Shelley Jackson Checkmark
Stranger Things Happen date unknown Kelly Link Jelly Ink / Small Beer Press 978-1-931520-99-7
$5.59?$: US dollar
276
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Shelley Jackson  
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