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Once Upon A Time . . . A seduced prince willingly fell prey to a sensuous usurper's erotic treacheries . . . a flesh-eating ogre gamboled in the footlights . . . a gingerbread man fled in terror from the baking pan to the fire . . . The award-winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red ... read more

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You hold in your hands a book of "Fairy Tales for Adults", yet you will find few fairies in these pages.

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Introduction
Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress
Stronger Than Time by Patricia C. Wrede
Somnus's Fair Maid by Ann Downer
The Frog King, or Iron Henry by Daniel Quinn
Near-Beauty by M.E. Beckett
Ogre by Michael Kandel
Can't Catch Me by Michael Cadnum
Journeybread Recipe by Lawrence Schimel
The Brown Bear of Norway by Isabel Cole
The Goose Girl by Tim Wynne-Jones
Tattercoats by Midori Snyder
Granny Rumple by Jane Yolen
The Sawing Boys by Howard Waldrop
Godson by Roger Zelazny
Ashputtle by Peter Straub
Silver and Gold by Ellen Steiber
Sweet Bruising Skin by Storm Constantine
The Black Swan by Susan Wade
Recommended Reading

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 6 in Fairy Tale Anthologies. (publisher series)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ellen Datlow (Editor)
  2. Terri Windling (Editor)

Other Contributors:

  1. Nancy Kress (Contributor) - Words Like Pale Stones
  2. Patricia C. Wrede (Contributor) - Stronger Than Time
  3. Ann Downer (Contributor) - Somnus' Fair Maid
  4. Daniel Quinn (Contributor) - The Frog King, or Iron Henry
  5. M.E. Beckett (Contributor) - Near-Beauty
  6. Michael Kandel (Contributor) - Ogre
  7. Michael Cadnum (Contributor) - Can't Catch Me
  8. Lawrence Schimel (Contributor) - Journeybread Recipe
  9. Isabel Cole (Contributor) - The Brown Bear of Norway
  10. Tim Wynne-Jones (Contributor) - The Goose Girl
  11. Midori Snyder (Contributor) - Tattercoats
  12. Jane Yolen (Contributor) - Granny Rumple
  13. Howard Waldrop (Contributor) - The Sawing Boys
  14. Roger Zelazny (Contributor) - Godson
  15. Peter Straub (Contributor) - Ashputtle
  16. Ellen Steiber (Contributor) - Silver and Gold
  17. Storm Constantine (Contributor) - Sweet Bruising Skin
  18. Susan Wade (Contributor) - The Black Swan

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Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 068813713X
Page Count: 386

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  • Library of Congress: PS648.F3B53 1994
  • Dewey: 813.0876608

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  • Silver Birch, Blood Moon
  • Black Heart, Ivory Bones

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