Black Thorn, White Rose |
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| Contribution by:
| Wrede, Patricia C.
Kandel, Michael
Straub, Peter
Yolen, Jane
Cadnum, Michael
Zelazny, Roger
Steiber, Ellen
Waldrop, Howard
Downer, Ann
Quinn, Daniel
Beckett, M. E.
Kress, Nancy
Schimel, Lawrence
Wade, Susan
Cole, Isabel
Wynne-Jones, Tim
Snyder, Midori
Constantine, Storm |
| Editor:
| Datlow, Ellen
Windling, Terri |
| Series title: | Fairy Tale Anthologies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4976-6859-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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"Enchanting, witty" fairy tales for adults from Peter Straub, Daniel Quinn, Nancy Kress, Patricia C. Wrede, and other modern-day Grimms and Andersens (Publishers Weekly). World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling return with another superb collection of wonders and terrors. In
Black Thorn, White Rose, the magical tales we were told at bedtime have been upended, turned inside out, reshaped, and given a keen,...
More Description "Enchanting, witty" fairy tales for adults from Peter Straub, Daniel Quinn, Nancy Kress, Patricia C. Wrede, and other modern-day Grimms and Andersens (Publishers Weekly).
World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling return with another superb collection of wonders and terrors. In Black Thorn, White Rose, the magical tales we were told at bedtime have been upended, turned inside out, reshaped, and given a keen, distinctly adult edge by eighteen of the most acclaimed storytellers ever to reinvent a fairy tale. Our favorite characters, from Sleeping Beauty to Rumpelstiltskin to the Gingerbread Man, are here but in different guises, brought to new life by such masters as Nancy Kress, Jane Yolen, Storm Constantine, and the late, great Roger Zelazny.
These breathtaking tales of dark enchantments range from the tragic and poignant to the humorous to the horrifying to the simply astonishing. The story of an aging woodcutter persuaded to help a desperate prince make his way through the brambles to save a sleeping beauty twists ingeniously around like the thorny wall that impedes them. The fable of an all-controlling queen mother who faces her most fearsome adversary in a sensitive princess who appears mysteriously during a storm is a dark, disturbing masterpiece. And readers will long remember the exquisite tale of Death, his godson, football, and MTV.
Anyone who has ever loved or even feared the old tales of witches and trolls and remarkable transformations will find much to admire in this extraordinary collection--happily ever after or not.