Snow White, Blood Red

Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling, edited by

ISBN 10: 0688109136 / ISBN 13: 9780688109134

Published by AvoNova / William Morrow, New York, 1993

About this Item

First Morrow AvoNova printing: January 1993, stated; full number line. Signed by co-editor Datlow on the title page. The book is unmarked; heavy spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $22.00); edgewear at spine ends and corners; an "Autographed / Doubleday Book Shops" sticker on the front panel; Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 011850

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snow White, Blood Red
• Publisher: AvoNova / William Morrow, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688109136
• ISBN 13: 9780688109134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of charming childhood stories featuring such fairy tale characters as Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Puss in Boots takes on a darker, more sinister edge at the hands of such writers as Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Jane Yolen.

Reviews

The dark and shadowed aspects of well-known folk stories and fairy tales are explored in updated retellings by such writers as Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen and Leonard Rysdyk in this anthology by the team that also compiles The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror volumes. In Esther M. Freisner's "Puss," one of the finest contributions, an ancient being dons boots with his feline guise to discharge a blood debt to a hated and brutal master. Patricia A. McKillip's "The Snow Queen" tells of a young woman who finds her real identity while her bored husband and their sophisticated friends nearly lose their souls to the eponymous enchantress. In a lighter vein, Caroline Stevermer and Ryan Edmonds write about an irritated stepmother who turns a baseball-mad family of boys into "The Springfield Swans." Blanche, a witch's daughter raised in isolation in Susan Wade's "Like a Red, Red Rose," finds tragedy when she reaches out for love. In "I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Woods," Kathe Koja shows what Little Red Riding Hood really was doing on her way to her grandmother's. Some of these tales are enchanting; some are horrifying; most, like the originals, offer insight into human nature.
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