Cursed: An Anthology
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4.0 • 9 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Sink your teeth into 20 folklore-inspired short stories with this fantasy-horror anthology featuring bestselling authors like Neil Gaiman, M.R. Carey, and Charlie Jane Anders.
ALL THE BETTER TO READ YOU WITH: Includes 12 original curses and 6 classic fairy tales!
It's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, a wedding ring or a pair of red shoes. Curses come in all shapes and sizes, and they can happen to anyone, not just those of us with unpopular stepparents . . . Here you'll find unique twists on curses—from fairy tale classics to brand-new hexes of the modern—by bestselling authors!
• NEIL GAIMAN
• JANE YOLEN
• KAREN JOY FOWLER
• M.R. CAREY
• CHRISTINA HENRY
• CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
• TIM LEBBON
• MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
• CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
• JEN WILLIAMS
• CATRIONA WARD
• JAMES BROGDEN
• MAURA McHUGH
• ANGELA SLATTER
• LILLITH SAINTCROW
• CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
• ALISON LITTLEWOOD
• MARGO LANAGAN
Expect new monsters and mythologies as well as twists on well-loved fables in this fantasy-horror anthology full of warning, monsters, and magic.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
O'Regan and Kane, who previously collaborated as editors on Wonderland, an anthology of stories inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, bring together 18 new and reimagined fairy tales in this spellbinding anthology, bookended by poems from Jane Yolen. Karen Joy Fowler's "The Black Fairy's Curse" is a dreamy, disorienting rendition of "Sleeping Beauty"; Neil Gaiman's lovely, tragic "Troll Bridge" draws from "Three Billy Goats Gruff"; and Angela Slatter's standout "New Wine" is a truly chilling modernization of "Bluebeard." While most of these stories transpose fairy tale elements into contemporary England, Lilith Saintcrow conjures a fully realized fantasy world with "Hanza and Ghana." The anthology's original stories also draw from folklore, as with the screaming skulls of Maura McHugh's "Faith and Fred" and the beguiling but dangerous fae folk of Catriona Ward's "At That Age." These stories are by turns eerie, grotesque, and delightful, ranging in tone from the broadly humorous fantasy of Charlie Jane Anders's "Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie" to the visceral body horror of James Brogden's "Skin." Readers won't have to be Brothers Grimm fans to appreciate this dark m lange.
