num_pages: 528
description: Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over--benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of today's finest writers of fantastic fiction for short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of world faery lore and classic faery literature. These authors, including Neil Gaiman (American Gods; Coraline), Gregory Maguire (Mirror Mirror), Patricia A. McKillip (Ombria in Shadow), Charles de Lint (The Blue Girl), Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles), and Kelly Link (Stranger Things Happen), have contributed stories and poems that are varied, unexpected, and wonderfully absorbing reading. Charles Vess's lovely decorations bring each piece to life; as an added bonus, Terri Windling provides a fascinating, thoughtful essay on the history of faery literature.This companion to the World Fantasy Award-winner and Locus best-seller The Green Man is edgy, provocative, and thoroughly magical. Like the faeries themselves.
language: English
title: The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
titlecomplete: The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
genres: Short Stories, Mythology, Fairies, Fae, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Anthologies, Urban Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 3274
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novelette for "The Faery Handbag", awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novelette for “The Faery Handbag”, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novelette for "The Faery Handbag", awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Anthology and Best Short Fiction for "The Faery Handbag", awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Short Fiction for "The Faery Handbag"
publisher: Firebird