Beyond the woods : fairy tales retold

Book 2016

"Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as "fairy tales" were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers at all ages. Over the years, authors have often borrowed bits and pieces from these stories, grafting them into their own writing, creating literature...

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ISBN:

9781597808385
1597808385

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Fairy tales retold

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Throwing In - Paula Guran
Tanith Lee - "Red as Blood" (Nebula Award nomination, 1980)
Gene Wolfe - "In the House of Gingerbread" (World Fantasy Award nomination, 1988)
Angela Slatter - "The Bone Mother"
Elizabeth Bear - "Follow Me Light"
Yoon Ha Lee - "Coin of Hearts Desire"
Nalo Hopkinson - "The Glass Bottle Trick"
Catherynne M. Valente - "The Maiden Tree"
Holly Black - "Coat of Stars"
Caitlin R. Kiernan - "Road of Needles"
Kelly Link - "Travels with the Snow Queen" (World Fantasy Award nomination, 1999)
Karen Joy Fowler - "Halfway People"
Margo Lanagan - "Catastrophic Disruption of the Head"
Shveta Thakrar - "Lavanya and Deepika"
Theodora Goss - "Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon"
Gardner Dozois - "Fairy Tale"
Peter S. Beagle - "The Queen Who Could Not Walk"
Priya Sharma - "Lebkuchen"
Neil Gaiman - "Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale"
Richard Bowes - "The Queen and the Cambion"
Octavia Cade - "The Mussel Eater"
Jane Yolen - "Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn"
Steve Duffy - "Bears: A Fairy Tale of 1958"
Charles de Lint -"The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep" (World Fantasy Award nomination, 1994)
Veronica Schanoes - "Rats"
Rachel Swirsky - "Beyond the Naked Eye"
Ken Liu - "Good Hunting"
Kirstyn McDermott - "The Moon's Good Grace"
Peter Straub - "The Juniper Tree"
Jeff VanderMeer - "Greensleeves"
Tanith Lee - "Beauty"
Acknowledgments

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2016012894

Control Number:

1641134

Other Authors:

Guran, Paula, editor, author

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