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Long ago, when we were children, our dreams were inspired by the fairy tales we heard at our mothers' and grandmothers' knees—stories of princesses and princes and witches and wondrous enchantments, by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, and from the pages of
. But, as World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling remind us, these stories were often tamed and sanitized versions. The originals were frequently darker—and in
, they turn darker still.
Twenty-one modern Grimms and Andersens—masterful storytellers including Neil Gaiman, Nancy Kress, and Tanith Lee—now reinvent beloved bedtime stories for our time. The Sea Witch gets her say, relating the story of "The Little Mermaid" from her own point of view. "Thumbelina" becomes a tale of creeping horror, while a delightfully naughty spin is put on "The Emperor's New Clothes." Author Caitlín R. Kiernan transports Snow White to a dark, gritty, industrial urban setting, and Patricia Briggs details "The Price" of dealing with a royal and unrepentantly evil Rumpelstiltskin.
Rich, provocative, and unabashedly adult, each of these tales is a modern treasure, reminding us that wishes have consequences and not all genies have our best interests at heart.
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About Ellen Datlow
was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award- winning fiction area of scifi.com, for almost six years. Previously, she was fiction editor of
for over seventeen years. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Award, and the 2005 Locus Award, for her work as an editor. Sci Fiction won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Website. Datlow and Windling are the co-editors of over eleven original anthologies and of seventeen volumes of
.
Other books by Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling
is an editor, writer, painter, and passionate advocate of mythic arts. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, as well as the Mythopoeic Award for her novel
. During the last two decades she's edited over twenty-five anthologies with Ellen Datlow, as well as several other anthologies, including one called
. Her paintings, which are based on folklore and feminist themes, have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States, England, and France.
Other books by Terri Windling
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is the celebrated author of books, graphic novels, short stories, films, and television for readers of all ages. Some of his most notable titles include the highly lauded #1
bestseller
; the groundbreaking and award-winning Sandman comic series;
(the first book ever to win both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals);
, winner of many awards and recently adapted into the Emmy-nominated Starz TV series (the second season slated to air in 2019);
, which was the UK’s National Book Award 2013 Book of the Year.
, which he wrote with Terry Pratchett a very long time ago (but not quite as long ago as
) and for which Gaiman wrote the screenplay, will air on Amazon and the BBC in 2019.
Author photo by Beowulf Sheehan
Other books by Neil Gaiman
Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) was born in the United Kingdom. Although she couldn’t read until she was eight, she began writing at nine and never stopped, producing more than ninety novels and three hundred short stories. She also wrote for the BBC television series
and various BBC radio plays. After winning the 1980 British Fantasy Award for her novel
, endless awards followed. She was named a World Horror Grand Master in 2009 and honored with the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2013. Lee was married to artist and writer John Kaiine.
Other books by Tanith Lee
Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for
, a Newbery Honor for
, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for
. Her other books include the
bestseller
; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast,
and
;
, another novel-length fairy-tale retelling, of Charles Perrault’s
; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend,
. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson; three dogs (two hellhounds and one hell terror); an 1897 Steinway upright; and far too many rosebushes.
Other books by Robin McKinley
Nalo Hopkinson
<DIV><B>Nalo Hopkinson</B> was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection <I>Skin Folk</I> was selected for the 2002 <I>New York Times</I> Summer Reading List and was one of the <I>New York Times</I> Best Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author of <I>The New Moon's Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber,</I> and <I>Brown Girl in the Ring</I>. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.</DIV>
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Michael Cadnum
Michael Cadnum is the author of 35 books for adults and young adults. His work—which includes thrillers, suspense novels, historical fiction, and books about myths and legends—has been nominated for the National Book Award (
), the Edgar Award (
and
), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (
). A former National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, he is also the author of award-winning poetry.
(2012) is his most recent novel.
Michael Cadnum lives in Albany, California, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Other books by Michael Cadnum
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Caitlín R. Kiernan is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. Their novels include
and
and their prolific short fiction has been collected in numerous volumes, including
and
Kiernan is also a vertebrate paleontologist and currently a research associate at the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Tuscaloosa.
Other books by Caitlín R. Kiernan
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