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Tag Archives: Fairy Tales Retold
Dominic Parisien and Navah Wolfe’s The Starlight Wood: New Fairy Tales
Some books you buy for the stories within, some books you buy for the sheer joy of what they look like, such as the British edition of Charles de Lint’s Someplace To Be Flying for its cover art as I did, or … Continue reading
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Laurie Thayer penned this review. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third volume of reworked fairy tales brought to us by the editing team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. As in their previous volumes, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose, these … Continue reading
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Naomi De Bruyn penned this review. Black Heart, Ivory Bones is the sixth and final volume in the library of stories inspired by classic fairy tales. It all began in 1990 when the award-winning editors realized that they shared a love of … Continue reading
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Silver Birch, Blood Moon
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s fifth anthology of modern retelling of fairy tales, is a solid collection. Some of the authors, such as Nancy Kress, Neil Gaiman, and Robin McKinley, are already … Continue reading
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Black Thorn, White Rose
Laurie Thayer penned this review. In Black Thorn, White Rose, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling reteam to bring us a second collection of fairy tales meant for adult readers. As in their previous collection, Snow White, Blood Red, these are not the fairy … Continue reading
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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Black Swan, White Raven
Black Swan, White Raven is the fourth volume in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s fairy tale reclamation effort. Reclamation from what… you might ask? From sweetness, safety and banality, traits infused into once-dark tales to render them palatable for tender sensibilities. … Continue reading
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