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Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks, Hansel and Gretel, and other storybook icons are ingeniously reimagined in this stunning collection of updated adult fairy tales from some of today's finest fantasists

For many of us, the fairy tale was our first exposure to the written word and the power of storytelling. These wondrous works of magic and morality enthralled us, enchanted us, sometimes terrified us, and remain in our hearts and memories still. Once again, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have compiled an extraordinary collection of reimagined tales conceived by some of today's most acclaimed contemporary purveyors of literary fantasy, science fiction, and horror, including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, and others.

Remarkable things lurk in these dark and magical woods. Here Beauty confronts a serial-killer Beast, Hansel and Gretel's witch resides not in a gingerbread house but in a luxurious resort, and Rumpelstiltskin is truly the devil demanding his due, rightfully or otherwise. The hilarious "Roach in Loafers" ingeniously combines the classic "Elves and the Shoemaker" tale with "Puss in Boots" and adds an insectile twist, while in a modern fable that blends The Wizard of Oz and Hans Christian Andersen, Dorothy is set adrift in Hollywoodland, ruby slippers and all. These are not the fairy stories you remember from childhood.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1995) - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
• Ruby Slippers - (1995) - shortstory by Susan Wade
• The Beast - (1995) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Masterpiece - (1995) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• Summer Wind - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea - (1995) - poem by Farida S. T. Shapiro
• The Crossing - (1995) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• Roach in Loafers - (1995) - shortstory by Roberta Lannes
• Naked Little Men - (1995) - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
• Brother Bear - (1995) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon - (1995) - shortstory by John Brunner
• Billy Fearless - (1995) - novelette by Nancy A. Collins
• The Death of Koshchei the Deathless (a tale of old Russia) - (1995) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Real Princess - (1995) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• The Huntsman's Story - (1995) - shortstory by Milbre Burch
• After Push Comes to Shove - (1995) - poem by Milbre Burch
• Hansel and Grettel - (1995) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• Match Girl - (1995) - novelette by Anne Bishop
• Waking the Prince - (1995) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• The Fox Wife - (1995) - novella by Ellen Steiber
• The White Road - (1995) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• The Traveler and the Tale - (1995) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• The Printer's Daughter - (1995) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Recommended Reading - (1995) - essay by uncredited

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