<div>20 fairy tales hauntingly reimagined by some of today&rsquo;s finest sci-fi and fantasy authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and more. Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories&mdash;and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not for children. A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots . . . Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family, the Bears . . . An archaeologist in Victorian England is enchanted by a newly exhumed Sleeping Beauty . . . A prince of tabloid journalism is smitten by a trailer-park Rapunzel . . . A clockwork amusement park troll becomes sentient and sets out to foment an automaton revolution. These are but a few examples of the marvels that await within these pages&mdash;tales that range from the humorous to the sensuous to the haunting and horrifying, each one a treasure with a distinctly adult edge.</div>

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Black Heart, Ivory Bones

<div>Fairy tales retold&mdash;with a twist&mdash;from &ldquo;some of our best storytellers&rdquo; including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). In this &ldquo;no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative&rdquo; collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories&mdash;and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman&rsquo;s &ldquo;Troll Bridge&rdquo;; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Frog Prince&rdquo;; in Tanith Lee&rsquo;s &ldquo;Snow-Drop,&rdquo; a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem&rsquo;s &ldquo;Little Poucet,&rdquo; a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in &ldquo;Little Red.&rdquo; Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you&rsquo;ve never dared to imagine. </div>

Snow White, Blood Red

<div>This &ldquo;wondrous&rdquo; collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others &ldquo;is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). For this enchanting anthology&mdash;a World Fantasy Award finalist&mdash;editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling &ldquo;asked their contributors to reimagine F&auml;erie&rdquo; in the present day, or &ldquo;search its more dimly lit pathways,&rdquo; and the authors have responded with bountiful imagination. The title piece is a poem by Neil Gaiman, but most of the others are longer pieces, &ldquo;like shards of stories you want to hear more of.&rdquo; Jeffrey Ford &ldquo;limns the heartbreaking tale&rdquo; of fairies who live in sandcastles built by young children; Ellen Steiber&rsquo;s &lsquo;Screaming for Fairies&rsquo; &ldquo;sketches the lineaments of desire.&rdquo; Bruce Glassco &ldquo;finds a different voice for Tinkerbell and Captain Hook in &lsquo;Never Never.&rsquo;&rdquo; Tanith Lee&rsquo;s &lsquo;Elvenbrood&rsquo; tale is eerie and &ldquo;chilling.&rdquo; Gregory Maguire, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia A. McKillip, and Emma Bull&rsquo;s stories all &ldquo;enchant&rdquo; and bewitch. Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &lsquo;CATNYP&rsquo; is &ldquo;both funny and deeply clever, warming the cockles of anyone who has ever had dealings with a research library, especially New York Public&rsquo;s&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This companion volume to The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest is &ldquo;a rewarding choice for those who like the traditional with a twist&rdquo; (Booklist).</div>

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The Faery Reel

<div>Drawing on the mythology of the Green Man and the power of nature, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and others serve up &ldquo;a tasty treat for fantasy fans&rdquo; (Booklist). There are some &ldquo;genuine gems&rdquo; in this &ldquo;enticing collection&rdquo; of fifteen stories and three poems, all featuring &ldquo;diverse takes on mythical beings associated with the protection of the natural world,&rdquo; most involving a teen&rsquo;s coming-of-age. Delia Sherman &ldquo;takes readers into New York City&rsquo;s Central Park, where a teenager wins the favor of the park&rsquo;s Green Queen.&rdquo; Michael Cadnum offers a &ldquo;dynamic retelling of the Daphne story.&rdquo; Charles de Lint presents an &ldquo;eerie, heartwarming story in which a teenager resists the lure&rdquo; of the faerie world. Tanith Lee roots her tale in &ldquo;the myth of Dionysus, a god of the Wild Wood.&rdquo; Patricia A. McKillip steeps her story in &ldquo;the legend of Herne, guardian of the forest. Magic realism flavors Katherine Vaz&rsquo;s haunting story. Gregory Maguire takes on Jack and the Beanstalk, and Emma Bull looks to an unusual Green Man&mdash;a Joshua tree in the desert&rdquo; (Booklist). These enduring works of eco-fantasy by some of the genre&rsquo;s most popular authors impart &ldquo;a real sense of how powerful nature can be in its various guises&rdquo; (School Library Journal). &ldquo;A treasure trove for teens and teachers exploring themes of ecology and folklore.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;The stories are well-written and manage to speak to both the intellect and the emotions.&rdquo; &mdash;SF Site</div>

The Green Man

<div>Stories of the archetypal Trickster from Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. World Fantasy Award Finalist The mythic Trickster is both good and bad, wise and witless, sacred and profane. He appears in many different guises in world mythology, taking the form of a god in Greek legend; a coyote, raven, or rabbit in Native American lore; a meddlesome faery in English folktales; a larger-than-life human being in Germany; or the charming, seductive, and deadly kitsune of the Japanese. In true Trickster fashion, this captivating collection of stories will elicit both laughs and gasps. A Louisiana swamp girl makes a wager with a bon &agrave; rien who fiddled the devil out of hell in Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Fiddler of Bayou Teche.&rdquo; World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip introduces a pickpocket who tries to predict the future with stolen cards, but for whom fate has something else in store, in &ldquo;The Fortune-Teller.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;The Dreaming Wind&rdquo; by Jeffrey Ford, a seasonal gale causes havoc among humans and nature&mdash;but nothing compares to what happens when it fails to reappear. &ldquo;The anthology features tricksters of many cultures from all over the world. Along with Coyote, there are stories here of Loki, Legba, Hermes, Raven, the Monkey King of China, and the fox spirits of Japan. . . . Windling and Datlow have done their usual excellent job of selecting quality work.&rdquo; &mdash;Strange Horizons &ldquo;Sophisticated and well-written.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

The Coyote Road

<div>2017 Aurora Awards Best of Decade Finalist In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning. At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now. "I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

The Onion Girl

<div>Charles de Lint's Newford novels, loosely linked "tales" with overlapping characters set in an imaginary modern North American city, are tales of magic and myth afoot on today's city streets. But at the center of every de Lint story is the miracle of the human heart. And at the heart of Spirits in the Wires are Saskia Madding and Christiana Tree, both of whom are tied to perennial Newford character, the writer Christy Riddell. Are either Saskia or Christiana real? Christy's girlfriend, Saskia, believes she was born in a Web site, while Christiana is Christy's "shadow-self"--all the parts of him that he cast out when he was seven years old. At a popular Newford on-line research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious "crash" occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their computers. Saskia disappears right before Christy's eyes, along with countless others. Now Christy and his companions must journey into Newford's otherworld, where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own...to rescue their missing friends and loved ones and to set this viral spirit right before it causes further harm. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Spirits in the Wires

<div>A tale of magic and murder The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police—but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Mulengro

<div>World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Onion Girl A brand-new installment in the Newford saga, the World Fantasy Award-winning series of urban fantasy fiction by a master of the form. Charles de Lint's urban fantasies, including Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, and The Onion Girl, have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction. At the heart of his work is the ongoing Newford series, of which this is the latest volume. The city of Newford could be any contemporary North American city . . . except that magic lurks in its music, in its art, in the shadows of its grittiest streets, where mythic beings walk disguised. And its people are like you and me, each looking for a bit of magic to shape their lives and transform their fate. Now, in this latest volume, we meet a bluesman hiding from the devil; a Buffalo Man at the edge of death; a murderous ghost looking for revenge; a wolf man on his first blind date; and many more. We're reunited with Jilly, Geordie, Sophie, the Crow Girls, and other characters whose lives have become part of the great Newford myth. And De Lint takes us beyond Newford's streets to the pastoral hills north of the city, where magic and music have a flavor different but powerful still. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Tapping the Dream Tree

<div> In Widdershins, fantasy author Charles de Lint has delivered one of his most accessible and moving works of his career. Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already knows: that they belong together. But they've been more clueless about how they feel for each other than the characters in When Harry Met Sally. Now in Widdershins, a stand-alone novel of fairy courts set in shopping malls and the Bohemian street scene of Newford's Crowsea area, Jilly and Geordie's story is finally being told. Before it's over, we'll find ourselves plunged into the rancorous and sometimes violent conflict between the magical North American "animal people" and the more newly-arrived fairy folk. We'll watch as Jilly is held captive in a sinister world based on her own worst memories—and Geordie, attempting to help, is sent someplace even worse. And we'll be captivated by the power of love and determination to redeem ancient hatreds and heal old magics gone sour. To walk "widdershins" is to walk counterclockwise or backwards around something. It's a classic pathway into the fairy realm. It's also the way people often back slowly into the relationships that matter, the real ones that make for a life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Widdershins

<div>From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of "Newford" stories The city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting with music, commerce, art, love, hate, and, of course magic. Magic in the sidewalk cracks, myth at the foundations of its great buildings, enchantment in the spaces between its people. In novels like Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and The Mystery of Grace, and in a series of story collections, urban fantasy master Charles de Lint has explored that magic and those spaces, bringing to life a tapestry of people from all walks of life, each looking for a spark of the miraculous to shape their lives and transform their fate. In Muse and Reverie, the fifth of the story collections, we reencounter old friends such as Jilly, Sophie, and the Crow Girls. We breathe in intimations of the world beyond death, and of magic beyond time. Longtime readers and newcomers alike will find themselves under Charles de Lint's unique spell. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Muse and Reverie

<div>On the Day of the Dead, the Solona Music Hall is jumping. That's where Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns, just two weeks too late. Altagracia – her friends call her Grace – has a tattoo of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia on her shoulder, she's got a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg, and she has grease worked so deep into her hands that it'll never wash out. Grace works at Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. A few blocks around the Alverson Arms is all her world -- from the little grocery store where she buys beans, tamales, and cigarettes ("cigarettes can kill you," they tell her, but she smokes them anyway) to the record shop, to the library where Henry, a black man confined to a wheelchair, researches the mystery of life in death – but she's got unfinished business keeping her close to home. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business – he's haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible. Like Grace in her way, John is an artist, and before their relationship can find its resolution, the two of them will have to teach each other about life and love, about hot rods and Elvis Presley, and about why it's necessary to let some things go. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

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Books By Charles de Lint (7 Books)

The Onion Girl

Spirits in the Wires

Mulengro

Tapping the Dream Tree

Widdershins

Muse and Reverie

The Mystery of Grace

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Mulengro

Tapping the Dream Tree

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Muse and Reverie

The Mystery of Grace

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