Twice Upon a Time
10 best books like Twice Upon a Time (Denise Little): Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, The Victorian Fairy Tale Book, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Enchanted Forests, Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, Once Upon a Crime, Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0879977906 |
How would it be if Snow White were the real villain & the wicked queen just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty should be the mistake of a lifetime--of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities?
Only...
| Author | Michael Patrick Hearn |
From Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahame’s Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them...
| 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,...
| Author | Katharine Kerr |
| ISBN | 0886776724 |
The enchanted forest is a place both terrifying and inviting, a region where monsters lurk and treasure may be found, a world peopled by evil witches and wise hermits, woodcutters and hunters, enchanted creatures and those of elfinkind. Here are 25 tales created especially for this volume by some of...
| Author | Louise Hawes |
| ISBN | 0618747974 |
“ . . . 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,...
| 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;...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
| 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 | 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 | M. Rickert |
| ISBN | 1930846444 |
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
| Author | Eileen Kernaghan |
| ISBN | 1894345142 |
*Winner 2001 Aurora Award for Long Form (English)
*Chosen for 2001 "Our Choice" Canadian Children's Centre literature guide
In this reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the magical worlds of Saami shamanism and the Kalevala coexist with the polite Victorian society...
| Author | P.N. Elrod |
| ISBN | 0441012132 |
Having been burnt recently by professionally promoted 'fanfiction' by well-known authors, I only jumped into this one because P. N. Elrod is among my favorite authors and I trusted her a little more than I might others.
While I cannot say I "loved" any of the stories, I was right to trust Elrod...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0886779804 |
2.5 stars. A decent collection of stories in which the "bad guy" wins. Most of the stories are just okay and quickly forgettable but there are a few standouts. "Horror Show" by Tim Waggoner about a washed up monster actor who meets his on screen character is worth reading as is "To Speak With Angels" by Michelle...
| Author | Regina Doman |
| ISBN | 0981931820 |
A novel for teens based on the popular fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
Way after midnight in New York City, a girl runs down the streets, looking for someplace to hide ... is there anywhere she can go to escape? Is there anyone who can help her... now?
This dark but fulfilling sequel to...
