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Snow White, Blood Red (Fairy Tale Anthologies) Kindle Edition

by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Contributor), Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 288 ratings

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Fairy tales retold—with a twist—from “some of our best storytellers” including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post).

In this “no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative” collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories—and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review).

A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman’s “Troll Bridge”; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson’s “The Frog Prince”; in Tanith Lee’s “Snow-Drop,” a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Little Poucet,” a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in “Little Red.” Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you’ve never dared to imagine.

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Editorial Reviews

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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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“Some of these tales are enchanting; some are horrifying; most, like the originals, offer insight into human nature.” —Publishers Weekly

“An excellent sampler of the current crop of fantasy writers; the annotated reading list is a bonus for those interested in further exploration.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Wickedly engaging fun . . . There’s plenty to enjoy here, so long as you haven’t just blundered in, looking for elves and fairies in the garden.” —Locus

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07JMZ8HFZ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (January 1, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 15942 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 359 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #52,994 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #52 in Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories (Kindle Store)
- #90 in Fairy Tales (Kindle Store)
- #130 in Fantasy Anthologies

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Ellen Datlow
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I've been a short story editor for over forty years, starting with OMNI Magazine and webzine for 17 years, then EVENT HORIZON, a webzine, and SCIFICTION, the fiction area of SCIFI.COM. I currently acquire and edit short fiction and novellas for Tor.com and I edit original and reprint anthologies. I've lived in NYC most of my life, although I travel a lot.
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Terri Windling
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Terri Windling is a writer, artist, and book editor interested in myth, folklore, fairy tales, and the ways they are used in contemporary arts. She has published over 40 books (novels, children's books, and anthologies), winning nine World Fantasy Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor." Her adult novel "The Wood Wife" won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, and her collection "The Armless Maiden" was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. She has also published numerous essays on myth, fairy tales, mythic arts, and fantasy literature.
"If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as writer, as painter, as editor, as muse." - Jane Yolen
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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021

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The introductions were fascinating. Datlow and Windling wrote of adult fantasies and horrors to be found throughout this anthology, and did they deliver! Some of the stories were creepy beyond belief and I found it hard to lime them, but most were deliciously wicked and thought provoking. My favorites were Charles de Lint's "The Moon's Drowning While I Sleep", Elizabeth A Lynn's The Princess in the Tower", Patricia McKillip's " The Snow Queen ", Caroline Stevermer and Ryan Edmonds " The Springfield Swans" and Susan Ward's " Like Red, Red Rose". If you love your fairy tales on the darker side you'll love this collection.

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smalltowncat

Grimm tales

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022

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Adult fairy tales, like the original, un-Disneyfied ones. Reminds me of the stories we studied in the college folklore class. Great read. Highly recommend.

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Nicole Anderson

Interesting re-telling of fairy tales

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022

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Some of these really felt like original fairy tales with disturbing imagery and concepts. A lot feel like warning tales filled with foreboding.

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Kip

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021

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Read this book when I was a kid, forgot it existed until I remembered a story from it. Couldn't remember the name for years just knew it was by Neil Gaiman. Spent hours and hours researching, found it. I'm dumb, Good book.

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Rodney A. Ross

Good Book

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2019

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Loved the stories in this book, they keep you on the edge!

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Holly Harris

Not So Happily Ever After

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018

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A collection of fantasy stories based on fairy tales. Most are quite dark.

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Shawnna Franklin

repurchased and still worth it.

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015

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Amazing book series. I love the reimagined stories that give a new perspective.

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tilla

Not likely to read this again

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2019

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Sorry to say but there's nothing in this book I really enjoyed. There was nothing particularly wrong with the stories, but they were all too depressing to be enjoyable.

I particularly disliked Puss, a retelling of Puss in Boots. I have cats and to think of anyone treating their kitty the way the guy treated his really ticked me off. The best part of that one was the end.

I'm sure other readers will have different opinions and probably find a great deal to interest them as the series is pretty popular. This particular volume just didn't do anything for me.

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Caroline

Short stories

Reviewed in Canada on May 25, 2024

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Like many anthologies there are mostly great stories with just a few clunkers.i enjoyed the retelling of the various fairytales.

Cthulhuhatesravioli

A book that brought me back to a memory

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2021

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I remember the first time I read this book. It gripped me like a first flush of teenage love. I remember reading it at night, surreptitiously, like a secret I wanted to hold to myself. This was a book I didn't want to share.
This book took me back to those intense emotions. It was glorious and terrifying and magical. Rather like the stories inside it. Each one is a wonder, a faberge egg of words, but one will grab you and wind itself into your thoughts and make a memory that will glow and guide you through those deep dark woods.
You will understand this review much more when you read the book.

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Something for everone

Reviewed in Australia on April 16, 2021

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Some interesting storiesalong with some that really do much for me. As with all Anthropologies I get to find new authors to keep an eye out for and new stories in world I've already visited.

Mig Bardsley

I didn't like most of these stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2021

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The majority of them seemed to me to be trying too hard - to live up to the rather cliched idea that fairy stories were really all about horrible things. Instead of the sharpness and clarity that I like in a good short story, there was a lot of mystification and hints and suggestions. And not many of them seemed to me to be saying anything new. I did like the pied piper story (an original twist) and the last one in the book (can't remember it's title but I liked the fairy tale juxtaposed with the real life horrors). I enjoyed the Ice Queen one though that wasn't particularly new. I also found many of the intros a bit pretentious. Still, many of them were well written as you'd expect with such good writers. I guess I'm not good at understanding writing that's not clear and straightforward :)

Ryann Farmer

Tales as old as time; retold

Reviewed in Canada on November 6, 2014

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Wonderful short stories; I'd found the second instalment at a thrift store and after reading it; had to buy the first one. I love faerie tales and am always somewhat skeptical of the newer retellings but these were great! Diverse subject matter; stories range from funny to dark. "Snow-Drop" and "Little Red" were my favourites (even if the latter had me cringing and when finished I had to step away from the book for a bit) Definitely a must-get for faerie tale lovers.

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