Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Ellen Datlow, Howard Waldrop, Susanna Clarke, Esther Friesner, Russell Blackford, Charles de Lint, Greg Costikyan, Debra Cash, Scott Bradfield, Delia Sherman, Leah Cutter, Terri Windling, Emma Hardesty, Bryn Kanar, Severna Park, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Brian M. Stableford, Jane Yolen, Michael Cadnum, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Steiber

eBook - 2014

20 fairy tales hauntingly reimagined by some of today’s finest sci-fi and fantasy authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and more. Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories—and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not f...or children. A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots . . . Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family,... more