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  The Bloody Chamber

  by Angela Carter

  A reissue of a collection of short stories first published ten years ago. They include "The Company of Wolves", on which the prize-winning film of the same name was based. Angela Carter is the author of "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic Toyshop".
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  Jane Slayre

  by Sherri Browning Erwin

  “ READER, I BURIED HIM . ” A timeless tale of love,  devotion . . . and the undead.   Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new... (more)
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  Little Vampire Women

  by Lynn Messina

  "Christmas wont be Christmas without any corpses."The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much) longer lives and (much) more ravenous appetites.Marmee has taught them well, and so they live by an unprecedented moral... (more)
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  Fables

  1001 Nights of Snowfall

  by Bill Willingham

  Bill Willingham’s critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is a wickedly imaginative take on the current state of the world’s favorite characters from fable and lore. This original hardcover collection is set in the early days of Fabletown, long before the FABLES series began. Traveling in Arabia as an Ambassador from the exiled FABLES community, Snow White is captured by the local sultan who... (more)
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  Troll's Eye View

  A Book of Villainous Tales

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

  Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales--evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's new anthology for younger readers, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumplestiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Garth Nix, Holly... (more)
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  Into the Woods

  by Lyn Gardner

  One death, one life, one missing father, one weird pipe, one boy with mix matched eyes and three almost orphans...it can mean only one thing:DON'T GO INTO THE WOODS!Life changes for the Eden sisters when their barely there mother dies leaving them with a new sister and a strange pipe, when their also barely there father goes missing leaving only a note behind things get even worse. Anything, Storm and... (more)
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  Transformations

  by Anne Sexton

  These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" (C.K. Williams).
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  Shadow Spinner

  by Susan Fletcher

  Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day -- providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.... It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories -- ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, the girl is forced to... (more)
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  Snow White, Blood Red

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Jack Dann, Patricia A. McKillip

  Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children . . . But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite -- lush and erotic, often... (more)
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  Once Upon a Time

  Sunlight and Shadow

  A Retelling of The Magic Flute

  by Cameron Dokey

  A new spin on "The Magic Flute" by an acclaimed author! In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all time would they be joined together. Only the ending of the world could tear them apart. In other words, in the... (more)
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  Once Upon a Time

  The Storyteller's Daughter

  A Retelling of The Arabian Nights

  by Cameron Dokey

  How do all great stories begin? With "Once Upon A Time..." Once upon a time, there lived a king whose heart was heavy. He had been betrayed by the woman he loved. Though the queen's schemes were discoverd before she could deprive her husband of his life, her dying curse killed something deep within him: his ability to love and trust. And so he makes a terrible resolution: He will take a bride for one night... (more)
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  Kissing the Witch

  Old Tales in New Skins

  by Emma Donoghue

  Thirteentales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a... (more)
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  Briar Rose

  by Robert Coover

  Briar Rose tells of a prince trapped in the briars, a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken and who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, as the old spell-casting fairy who inhabits the princess's dreams regales her with legends of other sleeping beauties and trying to imagine the nature of human desire.
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  Black Swan, White Raven

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

  A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yearns with new golden thread. BLACK SWAN, WHITE RAVEN revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled and terrified us in our early youth--carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping... (more)
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  Enthusiasm

  by Polly Shulman

  Julie’s best friend, Ashleigh, is an enthusiast. Julie never knows what new obsession will catch Ashleigh’s fancy, but she does know she’s likely to be drawn into the madness. Ashleigh’s latest craze is Julie’s own passion, Pride and Prejudice. But Ashleigh can’t just appreciate it as a great read; she insists on emulating the novel’s heroines, in speech, dress, and the most important element of all—finding... (more)
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  Rapunzel's Revenge

  by Nathan Hale, Dean Hale, Shannon Hale

  Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother. (Or the woman she thought was her mother.) Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked... (more)
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  The Sherlockian

  by Graham Moore

  In UK published as "The Holmes Affair".In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901,... (more)
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  Marvel Fairy Tales

  by C. B. Cebulski

  Re-imagining the greatest Marvel stories through folktales, myths, and fables from across the globe! In Avengers Fairy Tales, see Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the rest of the Avengers as you've never seen them before with all-new interpretations of Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, and the Wizard of Oz. In Spider-Man Fairy Tales, Mary Jane fills the shoes of another famous red-head in this... (more)
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  Tender Morsels

  by Margo Lanagan

  Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s... (more)
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  Mira, Mirror

  by Mette Ivie Harrison

  Two sisters. One a witch and a queen. The other transformed by her sister's touch into a mirror--a mirror with voice and memory and magic, but no power to transform herself back to the girl she once was. And then, mysteriously, the queen disappears and another girl finds the mirror. This girl has troubles of her own, but she is also a means to escape and soon the girl and the mirror are on their way to... (more)