Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688143636 ISBN 13: 9780688143633

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1995

Synopsis

The third installment in a popular series presents contemporary retellings of such fairy tales as "Hansel and Gretel," "Beauty and the Beast," and "The Little Match Girl" by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Gahan Wilson, and Jane Yolen. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Datlow was the fiction editor at Omnimagazine for seventeen years. She is now editor of the web zine Event Horizon She has edited numerous successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, Little Deaths, Off Limits, Twists of the Tale, and Vanishing Acts. With Terri Windling she has edited the popular anthology series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for thirteen years. A multiple World Fantasy Award-winner, she lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Datlow and Windling, winners of a World Fantasy Award for their annual Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, score again with this third entry in their provocative volumes of original, updated fairy tales for adults. The collection, which gathers many impressive names from the field of dark fantasy, also contains introductory essays and extensive suggested reading lists. Highlights include Tanith Lee's "The Beast," a disturbing but all too believable vision of psychopathy and art, and a rather different take on art's worth in an even more unsettling story by Garry Kilworth ("Masterpiece"). Joyce Carol Oates offers an exceptionally surrealistic version of the Sleeping Beauty myth, while Roberta Lannes contributes an exceedingly amusing variation on "The Shoemaker and the Elves." The late John Brunner is represented by a masterful fable that employs Chinese myth, an evil emperor and all-powerful dragons, and Nancy Collins creates a wonderfully folksy atmosphere with her Kentucky-set yarn about fear and common sense. Though the collection skews slightly toward tales of damsels in distress imperiled by evil males (it's notable that only six of the 22 stories are by men), it triumphantly concludes with Delia Sherman's uplifting fable about redemption, nobility and friendship. Like its predecessors, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose, this anthology is a must for those who believe that "once upon a time" means now.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0688143636
• ISBN 13: 9780688143633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Datlow Ellen, Windling Terri