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Silver birch, blood moon / edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
Van Pelt Library PS648.F3 S58 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Fantasy fiction, English.
- Fairy tales--Adaptations.
- Fairy tales.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Fantasy fiction, English.
- Fiction.
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 371 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Avon Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- The Brothers Grimm ... Charles Perrault ... Hans Christian Andersen ... Their deceptively simple bedtime stories of myth and magic stirred the dreams -- and the nightmares -- of the children we once were. All the enchantment of these timeless tales still slumbers in our grown-up imaginations ... waiting for an awakening kiss.
- The four previous volumes in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's anthology series of fairy tales retold with a distinctly modern edge have been hailed by reviewers as "brilliant, " "provocative, " and "disturbing." In this triumphant new collection of original fiction, twenty-one of today's leading writers spin the cherished fables of childhood into glittering gold -- offering magical tales for adults, as seductive as they are sophisticated.
- A jealous prince plots the destruction of his hated brother's wedding by inventing a "magic" suit of clothing visible only to the pure at heart ... A young girl's strange fairy tale obsession results in a brutal murder ... An embittered mother cares for her slowly dying son who is trapped in a thicket that guards a sleeping beauty ... In a bleak and desolate industrial wasteland, a group of violent outcasts lays the tattered myths of one Millennium to rest, and gives terrifying birth to those of the next.
- Erotic, compelling, witty, and altogether extraordinary, these stories lay bare our innermost demons and desires -- imaginatively transforming our youthful fantasies into things darker, slyer, and more delightfully subversive.
- Notes:
- Contains 21 stories by different authors.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [362]-371).
- ISBN:
- 0380786222
- OCLC:
- 40489333
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