Happily ever after
By: edited by John Klima
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781597802208
Subjects: Fairy tales; Adaptations
Description: Collects thrity-three retellings of famous fairy tales from some of the biggest names in today's fantasy fiction, including Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Gregory Maguire, and Nancy Kress.
Table of contents: title: The seven stage a comeback  -- Gregory Maguire; title: And in their glad rags  -- Genevieie Valentine; title: The sawing boys  -- Howard Waldrop; title: Bear it away  -- Michael Cadnum; title: Mr. Simonelli or the fairy widower  -- Susanna Clarke; title: The Black Fairy's curse  -- Karen Joy Fowler; title: My life as a bird  -- Charles de Lint; title: The night market  -- Holly Black; title: The rose in twelve petals  -- Theodora Goss; title: The red path  -- Jim C. Hines; title: Blood and water  -- Alethea Kontis; title: Hansel's eyes  -- Garth Nix; title: He died that day, in thirty years  -- Wil McCarthy; title: Snow in summer  -- Jane Yolen; title: The rose garden  -- Michelle West; title: The little magic shop  -- Bruce Sterling; title: Black feather  -- K. Tempest Bradford; title: Fifi's tail  -- Alan Rodgers; title: The faery handbag  -- Kelly Link; title: Ashputtle  -- Peter Straub; title: The emperor's new (and improved) clothes  -- Leslie What; title: Pinocchio's diary  -- Robert J. Howe; title: Little Red  -- Wendy Wheeler; title: The troll bridge  -- Neil Gaiman; title: The price  -- Patricia Briggs; title: Ailoura  -- Paul Di Fillippo; title: The farmer's cat  -- Jeff VanderMeer; title: The root of the matter  -- Gregory Frost; title: Like a red, red rose  -- Susan Wade; title: Chasing America  -- Josh Rountree; title: Stalking beans  -- Nancy Kress; title: Big hair  -- Esther Friesner; title: The return of the dark children -- Robert Coover.