The tooth fairy

The tooth fairy in this riveting coming-of-age story (which won the British World Fantasy Award in 1997) is not the winged fae who leaves coins under a child's pillow, but rather a monstrous, cruel, sexually-charged entity who hovers on the edge of one boy's shifting reality. And this fairy doesn't just take teeth . . . it bites. Pubescence is always painful, but never quite this literally. As in many of the best, most affecting supernatural stories, The Tooth Fairy plays with our sense of reality—is the creature real, or is it a figment of a tortured adolescent imagination run amok? You'll have to read it to find out.