Terribly twisted tales
By: edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Fantasy/DAW
Publisher: DAW Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780756405540
Subjects: Fairy tales; Adaptations
Description: "Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when we are young and impressionable children. In one way or another they stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions, or filtered through cartoon retellings. What more fun could a fantasy writer have than to take up the challenge of drawing upon this rich material and transforming it into something new... From the adventure of the witch in the gingerbread house and her close encounter with the oven..to Golda Lockes who has a very special arrangement with those well-known bears...to a murderous attack with a glass slipper...to Jack, a successful theoretical geneticist, who discovers just how perilous research can be...to a wolf detective who sets out to solve 'Grandma's' murder, here are highly inventive stories that will give you an entirely new perspective on those classic tales."--p. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Waifs / Dennis L. McKiernan; title: My great-great-grandma Golda Lockes / Annie Jones; title: Once they were seven / Chris Pierson; title: Capricious animistic tempter / Mickey Zucker Reichert; title: A charming murder / Mary Louise Eklund; title: Jack and the genetic beanstalk / Robert E. Vardeman; title: What's in a name? / Kathleen Watness; title: No good deed / Jody Lynn Nye; title: The red path / Jim C. Hines; title: Lost child / Steven D. Sullivan; title: Rapunzel strikes back / Brendan DuBois; title: Revenge of the little match girl / Paul Genesse; title: Clockwork heart / Ramsey "Tome Wyrm" Lundock; title: The hundred-year nap / Skip and Penny Williams; title: Five goats and a troll / Elizabeth A. Vaughan; title: Something about mattresses / Janet Deaver-Pack; title: Three wishes / Kelly Swails; title: The adventure of the red riding hoods / Michael A. Stackpole.