The Armless Maiden, edited by Terri Windling Original fairy tales exploring the darker themes of childhood by Patricia McKillip, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen, and many others.
Snow White and Rose Red, by Patricia C. Wrede A charming Elizabethan historical novel retelling this romantic Grimm's fairy tale.
Briar Rose, by Jane Yolen An unforgettable short novel setting the Briar Rose/ Sleeping Beauty story against the background of World War II.
Don't Bet on the Prince, edited by Jack Zipes A collection of contemporary feminist fairy tales compiled by a leading fairy-tale scholar, containing prose and poetry by Angela Carter, Joanna Russ, Jane Yolen, Tanith Lee, Margaret Atwood, Olga Broumas, and others.
The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes Presents fifteen modern fairy tales from England and the United States including works by Ernest Hemingway, A. S. Byatt, John Gardner, Jane Yolen, and Tanith Lee.
Modern Day Fairy-tale Creators The Faber Book of Modern Fairy Tales, edited by Sara and Stephen Corrin Gudgekin the Thistle Girl and Other Tales, by John Gardner Mainly by Moonlight, by Nicholas Stuart Gray Collected Stories, by Richard Kennedy Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks, by Carry Kilworth Heart of Wood, by William Kotzwinkle Five Men and a Swan, by Naomi Mitchison The White Deer and The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber Fairy Tales, by Alison Uttley Tales of Wonder, by Jane Yolen Nonfiction The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell The Erotic World of Fairy, by Maureen Duffy "Womenfolk and Fairy Tales," by Susan Cooper Essay in the New York Times Book Review, April 13, 1975 Tales from Eternity: The World of Fairy Tales and the Spiritual Search, by Rosemary Haughton Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale, by Betsy Hearne The Arabian Nights: A Companion, by Robert Irwin Woman, Earth and Spirit, by Helen M. Luke Once Upon a Time, collected essays by Alison Lurie The Classic Fairy Tales, by Iona and Peter Opie What the Bee Knows, collected essays by P. L. Travers Problems of the Feminine in Fairy Tales, by Marie-Louise von Franz Collected lectures originally presented at the C. C. Jung Institute From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers, by Marina Warner (highly recommended) Six Myths of Our Time, by Marina Warner Touch Magic, collected essays by Jane Yolen Fantasists on Fantasy, edited by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski Includes Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories," C. K. Chesterton's "Fairy Tales," and other essays Fairy Tales as Myths, by Jack Zipes Fairy-tale Source Collections Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book, edited by Angela Carter The Tales of Charles Perrault, translated by Angela Carter Italian Folktales, translated by Italo Calvino Daughters of the Moon, edited by Shahrukh Husain The Complete Hans Christian Andersen, edited by Lily Owens The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps Favorite Folk Tales from Around the World, edited by Jane Yolen The Complete Brothers Grimm, edited by Jack Zipes Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture, edited by Jack Zipes (highly recommended) (For volumes of fairy tales from individual countries-Russian fairy tales, French, African, Japanese, etc.-see the excellent Pantheon Books Fairy Tale and Folklore Library.)
ABOUT THE EDITORS.
ELLEN DATLOW.
Ellen Datlow has been fiction editor of OMNI since 1981. She has earned a reputation for encouraging and developing writers such as William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, Dan Simmons, and K. W. Jeter and for publishing Clive Barker, Stephen King, William Burroughs, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Carroll, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and Jack Cady in OMNI.
She has edited Blood is Not Enough, A Whisper of Blood, Alien Sex, Little Deaths (for which she won the 1995 World Fantasy Award), Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories, Lethal Kisses, and with Terri Windling the World Fantasy Award-winning series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Datlow has won the World Fantasy Award in the Special Award-professional category for her editing.
Datlow has taught at Clarion West, the Brockport Writers' Forum, and the Suncoast Writers' Conference.
She lives in New York City.
TERRI WINDLING.
Terri Windling, a five-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, is the author of The Wood Wife and The Green Children, as well as works of short fiction and nonfiction. She is also an artist; her paintings (incorporating fairy-tale text and imagery) have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country. She worked as a fiction editor for New York publishing companies for ten years, introducing many new writers to the fantasy field, including Charles de Lint, Steven Brust, Emma Bull, and Sheri S. Tepper. She created the Adult Fairy Tale series of books, the Borderland "punk urban fantasy" series for teenagers, and has published twenty anthologies prior to this one, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annual (coedited with Ellen Datlow) and The Armless Maiden. She now lives in Devon, England and Tucson, Arizona but continues to work as an editorial Consultant for Tor Books in New York.
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