Black Swan, White Raven: A Modern Collection of Fairy Tales

by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Gregory Frost, Midori Snyder, Don Webb, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Jane Yolen, Harvey Jacobs, Bruce Glassco, Susanna Clarke

Overview

A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth - carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world's best-known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind "happily ever after."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781434449214
Publisher:	Wildside Press
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	400 KB

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION, by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

THE FLOUNDER’S KISS, by Michael Cadnum

THE BLACK FAIRY’S CURSE, by Karen Joy Fowler

SNOW IN DIRT, by Michael Blumlein

RIDING THE RED, by Nalo Hopkinson

NO BIGGER THAN MY THUMB, by Esther M. Friesner

IN THE INSOMNIAC NIGHT, by Joyce Carol Oates

THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by Steve Rasnic Tem

THE TRIAL OF HANSEL AND GRETEL, by Garry Kilworth

RAPUNZEL, by Anne Bishop

SPARKS, by Gregory Frost

THE DOG ROSE, by Sten Westgard

THE REVEREND’S WIFE, by Midori Snyder

THE ORPHAN, THE MOTH, AND THE MAGIC, by Harvey Jacobs

THREE DWARVES AND 2000 MANIACS, by Don Webb

TRUE THOMAS, by Bruce Glassco

THE TRUE STORY, by Pat Murphy

LOST AND ABANDONED, by John Crowley

THE BREADCRUMB TRAIL, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

ON LICKERISH HILL, by Susanna Clarke

STEADFAST, by Nancy Kress

GODMOTHER DEATH, by Jane Yolen

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