
Black Swan, White Raven
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This collection from World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling proves that fairy tales don't have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn't necessarily mean forever. Here, the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others are reimagined by some of today's finest literary talents.
Hansel and Gretel make several appearances, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The real, shocking reason for Snow White's desperate flight from her home is revealed. And the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion.
The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb's brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his "Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs." All in all, they mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold.
Includes stories by Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garry Kilworth, Anne Bishop, Gregory Frost, Sten Westgard, Midori Snyder, Harvey Jacobs, Don Webb, Bruce Glassco, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Susanna Clarke, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen.
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Persons
Terri Windling is a writer, editor, and artist specializing in fantasy literature, folklore, and mythic arts. She has published over forty books, receiving nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for her novel The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA's Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as a writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor." She writes essays on folklore and fantasy; maintains a popular blog on these subjects (Myth & Moor); and is on the board of theChichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Speculative Fiction (Chichester University). She also creates myth-inspired visual art for exhibition in the US and Europe; and she's a member of theModern Fairiesmusic-and-folklore project (Oxford & Sheffield Universities). A former New Yorker, she now lives with her British husband and family in Devon, England.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
- The Flounder's Kiss: Michael Cadnum
- The Black Fairy's Curse: Karen Joy Fowler
- Snow in Dirt: Michael Blumlein
- Riding the Red: Nalo Hopkinson
- No Bigger Than My Thumb: Esther M. Friesner
- In the Insomniac Night: Joyce Carol Oates
- The Little Match Girl: Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Trial of Hansel and Gretel: Garry Kilworth
- Rapunzel: Anne Bishop
- Sparks: Gregory Frost
- The Dog Rose: Sten Westgard
- The Reverend's Wife: Midori Snyder
- The Orphan the Moth and the Magic: Harvey Jacobs
- Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs: Don Webb
- True Thomas: Bruce Glassco
- The True Story: Pat Murphy
- Lost and Abandoned: John Crowley
- The Breadcrumb Trail: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- On Lickerish Hill: Susanna Clarke
- Steadfast: Nancy Kress
- Godmother Death: Jane Yolen
- Acknowledgments
- A Biography of Ellen Datlow
- A Biography of Terri Windling
- Copyright Page
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