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10 best books like Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (Ellen Datlow): The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Fire, Unwelcome Bodies, Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Terribly Twisted Tales, Happily Ever After, Once Upon a Crime, Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
ISBN0618055231
Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold for the miller’s daughter? If you stop and think about it, there are some very peculiar and rather hard-to-explain components to the story.
Vivian Vande Velde...
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
AuthorSarah Monette
ISBN1607013053
Monette's diverse collection delves deeply into the mythic and reaches far beyond everyday reality. Readers cannot resist journeying with her into realms-dangerously dark or illuminatingly revelatory-they could never imagine without her as their guide. From ghost stories in the tradition of...
The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0312862210
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,...
Fire
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0399252894
5 tales set from prehistoric to present, market to dragon academy.
1 First Flight - a boy and pet unexpectedly ride a dragon
2 Hellhound - stars a mysterious dog in a graveyard showdown
3 Fireworm - a young man must defend his clan from a creature
4 Salamander Man - a slave saves his village...
Unwelcome Bodies
AuthorJennifer Pelland
ISBN0978867688
Pain. Pleasure. The sensation of touch.we feel everything through our skin, that delicate membrane separating "I" from "other," protecting the very essence of self.Until it breaks. Or changes. Or burns.What would you do if you were the one called on to save humanity, and the price you had to pay was...
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand
AuthorLouise Hawes
ISBN0618747974
“ . . . and they lived happily ever after.” Remember the fairy tales you put away after you found that no princess is as beautiful as common sense and happy endings are just the beginning?

Well, the old tales are back, and they’ve grown up! Black Pearls brings you the stories of your childhood,...
Terribly Twisted Tales
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0756405548
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...
Happily Ever After
AuthorJohn Klima
ISBN1597802204
Once Upon A Time...

...in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking...

And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land...
Once Upon a Crime
AuthorEd Gorman
ISBN0425171280
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...
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0415902630
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...
Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3]
AuthorDavid B.
ISBN2844140858
David B.'s tribulations with his brother's epilepsy, the way in which the illness determined the author's artistic vocation, with, as a backdrop, a sharply delienated parade of the chimera of the 70s, from the promise of communal living to the infatuation with macrobiotics, all combine to make of...
Get a Life
AuthorPhilippe Dupuy
ISBN1896597793
A celebration of the sophistication, wit and charm found only in the singular collaboration of French cartooning team

For twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have collaborated on every aspect—sharing both the writing and drawing—of their highly...
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
AuthorMarilyn Chin
ISBN0393331458
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.

Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
Magic in the Mirrorstone
AuthorSteve Berman
ISBN0786947322
In this anthology for teen readers, fifteen best-selling and acclaimed authors--including Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci, Cassandra Clare, Eugie Foster, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Gregory Frost--weave all-new stories filled with magic. Comic and dark, epic and entertaining, these stories will...
The Book of Ballads
AuthorCharles Vess
ISBN0765312158
In this graphic novel, Charles Vess illustrates many traditional folk ballads that have been rewritten by some fairly popular fantasy artists like Neil Gaiman or Emma Bull.

I didn't realize how many traditional ballads have negative interactions with strangers as their primary topic....
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
AuthorDelia Sherman
ISBN1931520240
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,...
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
AuthorSharyn November
ISBN0142405523
First Firebirds. Then Firebirds Rising. Now there is Firebirds Soaring, the third anthology of original stories by some of today?s finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. These authors, including Nancy Farmer (The Sea of Trolls), Ellen Klages (The Green Glass Sea), Margo Lanagan (Black Juice),...
The Wilful Eye
AuthorIsobelle Carmody
ISBN1742374409
A dozen of the most exciting and unique writers for young people have chosen fairytales as starting points for their own original stories, in this surprising and spellbinding two-volume collection

Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels), Rosie Borella, Isobelle Carmody, Richard Harland...
Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice
AuthorEugie Foster
ISBN1607620103
Enchantment, peril and romance pervade the shadowy Far East, from the elegant throne room of the emperor's palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village. In these dozen stories of adventure and magic from the Orient, a maiden encounters an "oni" demon in the forest, a bride discovers her mother-in-law...
The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763629065
Ten extraordinary authors spin hair-raising original tales collected by the anthologist of GOTHIC!

With scary stories by: M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Annette Curtis Klause, Kelly Link, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and Chris Wooding

Enter...
Tatterhood and Other Tales
AuthorEthel Johnston Phelps
ISBN0912670509
These twenty-five traditional tales come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. All the central characters are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some...
Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes
AuthorNina Berry
ISBN0985029412
In this anthology, 20 authors explore the dark and hidden meanings behind some of the most beloved Mother Goose nursery rhymes through short story retellings. The dark twists on classic tales range from exploring whether Jack truly fell or if Jill pushed him instead to why Humpty Dumpty, fragile and...
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