Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy
By: edited by Denise Little
Contributors: C. S. Friedman; Rosemary Edghill; Phaedra M. Weldon; Leslie Claire Walker; Allan Rousselle; Greg Beatty; Loren L. Coleman; Terry Hayman; Peter Orullian; Annie Reed; Christina F. York; Nathaniel Poole; Jane Toombs; Lisa Silverthorne; Scott William Carter; Jean Rabe; Steven Mohan, Jr.; Michael Hiebert; Douglas Smith; Laura Resnick
Publisher: DAW
Published: July 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780756403690
Subjects: Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction - Fantasy; Fantasy; Fantasy - General; Fiction / Fantasy / General
First sentence: Bad girls have more fun.
Description: What kind of stories are the most entertaining ones? Well obviously the most intriguing tales feature characters that don't walk the straight and narrow, those that get into or cause trouble rather than avoid it. And now some of fantasy's most troublesome gals have their chance to shine in twenty all-original accounts of fallen goddesses, medusas and harpies, sorceresses drawn to the dark side of magic, and such well-known woeful women as Pandora and Cinderella's stepmother.  
  
      So heed their siren songs as you get caught up in the enchantment of such tales as those about: a woman who was all things to all men...four girls who formed a bewitching band and to keep it from breadking up made a bargain with Aphrodite...Lilith's encounter with a holy man and the "children" whose destiny would hand in the balance...a harpy doomed by Hera to bide on mortal Earth unless she could find a way to break the curse...a tooth fairy who just couldn't do without that dental fix...a medusa in search of a lover who wouldn't end up with a heart of stone....
Table of contents: value: Introduction by Denise Little; value: Shall We Dance? by C. S. Friedman; value: Bitter Fruit: A Tale of Crownland by Rosemary Edghill; value: The Light of Ra by Phaedra M. Weldon; value: Time and Memory by Leslie Claire Walker; value: Band of Sisters by Allan Rousselle; value: Mother of Monsters by Greg Beatty; value: Sisters of the Blade by Loren L. Coleman; value: To Ride the Serpent Once More by Terry Hayman; value: Lilith by Peter Orullian; value: Homeless by Annie Reed; value: Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth by Christina F. York; value: Tsonoqua by Nathaniel Poole; value: Banished by Jane Toombs; value: Soul Taker by Lisa Silverthorne; value: Heart of Stone by Scott William Carter; value: Black Annie by Jean Rabe; value: The Amphora by Steven Mohan, Jr.; value: Dust by Michael Hiebert; value: The Last Ride by Douglas Smith; value: Greek to Me by Laura Resnick