Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho's Crawford Award-winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again." A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth spirit...

They said to be careful of the monster, but they didn’t know… It was the monster that saved me.The whole city called him the monster: a troubled man with demons in him clawing to get out. His job was to ruthlessly take lives for the family. And, yet, he saved mine. Ever since, I was the one woman who could walk amongst the most powerful men within the Italian Mob—all except him. To him, I didn’t belong. And he made it clear by being the monster...