Snow White, Blood Red
-
-
3.8 • 10 Ratings
-
-
- $6.99
-
- $6.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
First Volume in the Fairy Tale Anthologies Series
“Snow White, Blood Red” is the first volume in the Fairy Tale Anthologies Series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. This collection features fantasy, dark fantasy, and sometimes horror fiction by modern authors that are based on or inspired by classic fairy tales. Some of the fairy tales that are retold here are very familiar, like Snow White, or Rapunzel. Others were more obscure, at least to me, like “Little Poucet.”
The short stories that are collected are by a variety of modern authors, such as Neil Gaiman, Charles De Lint, Tainth Lee, Nancy Kress, Gahan Wilson, Patricia A.McKillip, and others. There’s even a poem by Jane Yolen. These are very different tales, some are very modern, some are set in antiquity, some are dark, some are bright, almost all of them are very good. I only found a couple that I didn’t care for.
It’s a good collection, put together by one of the best editing teams in the business. There’s six other volumes in the series, the second of which is “Black Thorn, White Rose,” and I have put it on my “Want to Read List.”