The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
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| Author | Peg Kerr |
| ISBN | 0446608475 |
This novel focuses on two outcasts on two journeys in two eras. In 1689 England, Lady Eliza Grey's 11 brothers are turned into swans. Rejected by her father, Eliza is flown to America by her brothers where she has a chance to save them--until she is accused of witchcraft. In the second story, set in 1981...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0380778726 |
""Once upon a time ..." So begin the classic fairy tales that enthralled and terrified us as children. Now, in their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring us twenty-one new stories by some...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756405548 |
Eighteen original stories that take familiar fairy tales and shift them around to give an entirely new slant.
Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when young and impressionable. They stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions or filtered...
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691000883 |
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing...
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0385486812 |
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
| Author | Gregory Frost |
| ISBN | 0765301954 |
The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth
1843 is the “last year of the world,” according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's...
| 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...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415902630 |
This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural...
| Author | Denise Little |
| ISBN | 0886778352 |
How would Little Red Riding Hood's story play if we heard it from the viewpoint of the wolf, and what's the real scuttlebutt about the seven dwarves? Whether they're told to us as bedtime treats or viewed as Disney movies, fairy tales fuel our imagination. Now fantasy's finest indulge themselves and...
| Author | Kathleen Ragan |
| ISBN | 0393320464 |
Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and...
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...
