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Black Swan, White Raven
| Author: | Terri Windling Ellen Datlow |
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Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 Avon, 1997 |
| Series: | Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 4 |
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1. Snow White, Blood Red |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Unforgettable stories of witches and wishes, Sleeping Beauties and Snow Whites, ingeniously twisted into darker, more grown-up shapes by fantasy fiction's most talented practitioners
Once again, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling prove that fairy tales don't have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn't necessarily mean forever. Black Swan, White Raven is Datlow and Windling's fourth collection of once-familiar and much-beloved bedtime stories reimagined by some of the finest fantasists currently plying their literary trade--acclaimed writers like Jane Yolen, John Crowley, Michael Cadnum, and Joyce Carol Oates, who give new lives and new meanings to the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and more.
Hansel and Gretel make several appearances here, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The shocking real reason for Snow White's desperate flight from her home is revealed in "The True Story," 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, the reimagined fairy tales and fables in Datlow and Windling's literary offering mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
- The Flounder's Kiss - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
- The Black Fairy's Curse - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
- Snow in Dirt - novelette by Michael Blumlein
- Riding the Red - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
- No Bigger Than My Thumb - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
- In the Insomniac Night - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Little Match Girl - poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Trial of Hansel and Gretel - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
- Rapunzel - shortstory by Anne Bishop
- Sparks - novelette by Gregory Frost
- The Dog Rose - shortstory by Sten Westgard
- The Reverend's Wife - novelette by Midori Snyder
- The Orphan the Moth and the Magic - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
- Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs - shortstory by Don Webb
- True Thomas - novelette by Bruce Glassco
- The True Story - shortstory by Pat Murphy
- Lost and Abandoned - shortstory by John Crowley
- The Breadcrumb Trail - poem by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- On Lickerish Hill - novelette by Susanna Clarke
- Steadfast - shortstory by Nancy Kress
- Godmother Death - shortstory by Jane Yolen
- Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited
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