My mother she killed me, my father he ate me Forty new fairy tales

MY MOTHER SHE KILLED ME, MY FATHER HE ATE ME Contents   Introduction by Kate Bernheimer Drawing the Curtain by Gregory Maguire Russia Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child by Joy Williams  ("Baba Yaga") Ardour by Jonathon Keats  ("Baba Yaga") I'm Here  by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ("Ivan Tsarevich") Germany The Brother and the Bird by Alissa Nutting ("The Juniper Tree," Brothers Grimm) Hansel and Gretel by Francine Prose ("Hansel & Gretel," Brothers Grimm) A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin  by Kevin Brockmeier ("Rumpelstiltskin," Brothers Grimm) With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold by Neil LaBute ("Rumpelstiltskin," Brothers Grimm)  The Swan Brothers by Shelley Jackson ("The Six Swans," Brothers Grimm)  The Warm Mouth by Joyelle McSweeney ("The Bremen Town Musicians," Brothers Grimm) Snow White, Rose Red by Lydia Millet ("Snow-White and Rose-Red," Brothers Grimm) The Erlking by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ("The Erlking," Johanne Goethe) Norway Dapplegrim by Brian Evenson ("Dapplegrim," Peter Christen Asbjornien and Jorgen Moe)  Denmark The Wild Swans by Michael Cunningham  ("The Wild Swans," Hans Christian Andersen)  Halfway People by Karen Joy Fowler  ("The Wild Swans," Hans Christian Andersen)  Green Air by Rikki Ducornet  ("The Little Match Girl," Hans Christian Andersen)  The Mermaid in the Tree by Timothy Schaffert ("The Little Mermaid," Hans Christian Andersen) What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body Is Gone by Katherine Vaz ("The Little Mermaid," Hans Christian Andersen) The Snow Queen by Karen Brennan ("The Snow Queen," Hans Christian Andersen) Eyes of Dogs by Lucy Corin ("The Tinder Box," Hans Christian Andersen) Little Pot  by Ilya Kaminsky ("The Teapot," Hans Christian Andersen) England A Bucket of Warm Spit  by Michael Martone  ("Jack and the Beanstalk," Joseph Jacobs)  Catskin by Kelly Link ("Catskin," Joseph Jacobs) Ireland Teague O'Kane and the Corpse  by Chris Adrian ("Teague O'Kane and The Corpse," William Butler Yeats) Italy Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay by Jim Shepard  ("Jump Into My Sack," Italo Calvino) Body-without-Soul by Kathryn Davis  ("Body-without-Soul," Italo Calvino) The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone by Kellie Wells ("The Story of Grandmother") My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This Is What Happened by Sabrina Orah Mark  ("The Young Slave," Giambattista Basile)  France The Color Master by Aimee Bender ("Donkeyskin," Charles Perrault)  The White Cat by Marjorie Sandor ("The White Cat," Madame d'Aulnoy) Blue-bearded Lover by Joyce Carol Oates ("Bluebeard," Charles Perrault) Bluebeard in Ireland by John Updike ("Bluebeard," Charles Perrault) A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper by Rabih Alameddine ("Sleeping Beauty," Charles Perrault)  A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility by Stacey Richter ("Cinderella," Charles Perrault)  Greece Orange by Neil Gaiman (The Odyssey, Homer ) Psyche's Dark Night by Francesca Lia Block ("Cupid and Psyche") Vietnam The Story of the Mosquito by Lily Hoang ("The Story of the Mosquito") Japan First Day of Snow by Naoko Awa ("A Kamikakushi Tale") I Am Anjuhimeko by Hiromi Itō ("Sanshō the Steward") Mexico Coyote Takes Us Home  by Michael Mejia ("Tales from Jalisco," Mexico) United States Ever After by Kim Addonizio ("Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Walt Disney) Whitework by Kate Bernheimer ("The Oval Portrait," Edgar Allen Poe) Excerpted from My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.