Black swan, white raven
By: edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Contributors: Canty, Thomas
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780380786213
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Fairy tales; American Fantasy fiction; Adaptations
Description: An anthology of revisionist fairy tales, many with a feminist slant. In the tale of Snow White, the villain is not the stepmother but the stepfather and the dwarfs are wise women. A total of 19 tales.
Notes: Cover art by Thomas Canty.

First Avon Books Trade Paperback printing October 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-366).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow; title: The flounder's kiss / Michael Cadnum; title: The black fairy's curse / Karen Joy Fowler; title: Snow in dirt / Michael Blumlein; title: Riding the red / Nalo Hopkinson; title: No bigger than my thumb / Esther M. Friesner; title: In the insomniac night / Joyce Carol Oates; title: The little match girl / Steve Rasnic Tem; title: The trial of Hansel and Gretel / Garry Kilworth; title: Rapunzel / Anne Bishop; title: Sparks / Gregory Frost; title: The dog rose / Sten Westgard; title: The Reverend's wife / Midori Snyder; title: The orphan the moth and the magic / Harvey Jacobs; title: Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs / Don Webb; title: True Thomas / Bruce Glassco; title: The true story / Pat Murphy; title: Lost and abandoned / John Crowley; title: The breadcrumb trail / Nina Kiriki Hoffman; title: On Lickerish Hill / Susanna Clarke; title: Steadfast / Nancy Kress; title: Godmother death / Jane Yolen.