Terribly Twisted Tales

10 best books like Terribly Twisted Tales (Martin H. Greenberg): Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Fantastic Alice, Waters Luminous and Deep, The Fair Folk, Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, Witch High, Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, Once Upon a Crime

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Author

Greg Ketter

Bookstores are the greatest places on earth, yet there's never been an anthology devoted just to them. Here are sixteen stories, fourteen original to this anthology, each of which includes a bookstore at its core. Science fiction, fantasy and horror. Authors included are David Bischoff, P.D. Cacek,...

The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors

Author	Terri Windling
ISBN	0312862210

I'm a big fan of Terri Windling, and make an effort to seek out her anthologies. Thus, I got this one. I'd heard rave reviews of it - people saying "This is the one that made a difference in my life!"
I was a bit quizzical about that, because for me, that was 'Bordertown.' And for me, it remains Bordertown,...

Fantastic Alice

Author	Margaret Weis
ISBN	0441002536

The bestselling coauthor of Fire Sea and The Hand of Chaos has compiled a collection of all-new, first-time-in-print adventures featuring Lewis Carroll's Alice. Now out of Wonderland, Alice is taken on journeys beyond imagination to different eras and different worlds, by a talented group of fantasy's...

Waters Luminous and Deep

Author	Meredith Ann Pierce
ISBN	0142403563

A spellbinding collection of short stories by the author of the Darkangel and Firebringer trilogies.

Meredith Ann Pierce's acclaimed novels are the proof of a remarkable imagination. Here is more proof--eight shorter works of fiction, each with a strong heroine, a tangibly imagined world,...

The Fair Folk

Author

Marvin Kaye

Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy-all with one common thread-"the fair folk." From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic.

In "The Kelpie," by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being...

Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives

Author	Justin Gustainis
ISBN	1894063481

Got vampires? Ghosts? Monsters? We can help!

Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives, is your one-stop-shop for Urban Fantasy’s finest anthology of the supernatural. 14 sleuths are gathered together for the first time in all-original tales of unusual cases which require...

The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories

Author	Tom Shippey
ISBN	0192803824

An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil,...

Witch High

Author	Denise Little
ISBN	0756405130

High school is different for everyone. For some, it’s a time to shine, and for others, a time to survive. Then there are the students who attend those special schools for the gifted. But what if there was a school that catered to those rarest of students—those who can do magic?

These fourteen...

Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	0689878370

Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar.The stories include a Rapunzel whose most confining prison is her loneliness;...

Once Upon a Crime

Author	Ed Gorman
ISBN	0425171280

There are some pleasent surprises in this little collection. There are also some duds. Thankfully, however, the gems make up for the dudes. There does seem to be a preponderence of mob stories.

The stories range from funny to touching. Now of them all really sad. Standouts include-

"After...

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy

Author	Ekaterina Sedia
ISBN	0979624606

This anthology of 21 original fantasy stories explores humanity’s most dynamic and forceful creation—the city. Featuring tales from fantasy heavyweights such as Hal Duncan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, and Barth Anderson, the collection whisks readers from dizzying rooftop perches...

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing

Author	Delia Sherman
ISBN	1931520240

Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...

The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

Author	Carl Hiaasen
ISBN	0618812652

The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year’s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.

Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful...

Murder by Magic: Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural

Author	Rosemary Edghill
ISBN	0446679623

Tales of mystery and the supernatural have long stirred the human imagination. Here are twenty original stories of diabolical crimes and magical solutions featuring some of today's top science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writers. From the Elizabethan era to the far-flung future, from the interstellar...

Misspelled

Author	Julie E. Czerneda
ISBN	0756404754

strange magic...in 17 Fascinating tales of spells gone awry

When it comes to magic, skipping the directions, changing the ingredients, or garbling the words of a spell can lead to unusual consequences-sometimes dire, sometimes comical. Included in these stories are just a few of the possible...

Quicksilver & Shadow, Volume 2: Collected Early Stories: Contemporary, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction Stories

Author	Charles de Lint
ISBN	1596060034

As the Goodreads description notes, this volume was one of a projected three that were to gather up all of de Lint's early short fiction. I read it soon after reading the companion volume, A Handful of Coppers: Collected Early Stories, Vol. 1: Heroic Fantasy, which I really liked (my review of that one...

Strip Mauled

Author	Esther M. Friesner
ISBN	1439133204

The Follow-Up to Witch Way to the Mall from the Creator of the Chicks in Chainmail Series.  It’s the Werewolves’ Turn to Howl Across the Well-Kept Lawns and Neat Picket Fences of Supernatural Suburbia. Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so they’re not the Obligatory/Iconic...

Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology

Author	James Lowder
ISBN	1569757887

THE BEAST STALKS THE NIGHT!

The change comes on with startling speed. Moonlight transforms the kindly stranger into something else--something wild, vicious and beyond the reach of reason. The curse has taken hold. From dark urban alleys and fog-shrouded heaths to unsettling futurescapes...

White Time

Author

Margo Lanagan

Posted at Shelf Inflicted

Anthologies are fun to read because they feature a wide variety of authors and styles. With their hit-or-miss qualities, however, they can also end up being disappointing. If I run into a real dud of a story, do I set the book aside and pick up something else or skip the...

From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness

Author	Thomas F. Monteleone
ISBN	0446610356

Editors Elizabeth E. and Thomas F. Monteleone have reapeatedly transformed teh landscape of the modern horror story with their acclaimed Borderlands anthologies. Now in an indispensable new collection, they present twenty-five all-original tales of terror by today's acclaimed masters and the...

Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy

Author	Jonathan Strahan
ISBN	1597801178

An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in...