Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Author: | Ellen Datlow Terri Windling |
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Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 Avon, 2000 |
Series: | Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 6 |
1. Snow White, Blood Red |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Favorite fairy tales are updated and hauntingly reimagined by twenty of today's finest writers of fiction and fantasy
Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories--and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not for children.
A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots... Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family, the Bears... An archaeologist in Victorian England is enchanted by a newly exhumed Sleeping Beauty... A prince of tabloid journalism is smitten by a trailer-park Rapunzel... A clockwork amusement park troll becomes sentient and sets out to foment an automaton revolution. These are but a few examples of the marvels that await within these pages--tales that range from the humorous to the sensuous to the haunting and horrifying, each one a treasure with a distinctly adult edge.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
- Rapunzel - shortstory by Tanith Lee
- The Crone - poem by Delia Sherman
- Big Hair - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
- The King with Three Daughters - novelette by Russell Blackford
- Boys and Girls Together - poem by Neil Gaiman
- And Still She Sleeps - novelette by Greg Costikyan
- Snow in Summer - shortstory by Jane Yolen
- Briar Rose - poem by Debra Cash
- Witch - poem by Debra Cash
- Chanterelle - novelette by Brian Stableford
- Bear It Away - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
- Goldilocks Tells All - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
- My Life as a Bird - (1996) - novelette by Charles de Lint
- The Red Boots - shortstory by Leah Cutter
- Rosie's Dance - shortstory by Emma Hardesty
- You, Little Match-Girl - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
- Dreaming Among Men - shortstory by Bryn Kanar
- The Cats of San Martino - novelette by Ellen Steiber
- The Golem - shortstory by Severna Park
- Our Mortal Span - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
- Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower - novella by Susanna Clarke
- Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited
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