num_pages: 256
description: An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” — The New York Times Book ReviewLike Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form.Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
language: English
title: Little Black Book of Stories
titlecomplete: Little Black Book of Stories
genres: Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 2683
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: O. Henry Award
category: 'The Thing in The Forest', awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
publisher: Vintage