<div>Dark and decidedly grown-up stories inspired by fairy tales&mdash;from New York Times bestsellers Karen Joy Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, Susanna Clarke, and more. This collection from World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling proves that fairy tales don&rsquo;t have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean forever. Here, the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others are reimagined by some of today&rsquo;s finest literary talents. Hansel and Gretel make several appearances, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The real, shocking reason for Snow White&rsquo;s desperate flight from her home is revealed. And the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion. The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb&rsquo;s brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his &ldquo;Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs.&rdquo; All in all, they mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold. Includes stories by Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garry Kilworth, Anne Bishop, Gregory Frost, Sten Westgard, Midori Snyder, Harvey Jacobs, Don Webb, Bruce Glassco, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Susanna Clarke, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen. </div>

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Black Swan, White Raven

<div>Finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards: A lonely teenager hides in the forest concealing his own magic&mdash;until a battle for survival makes hiding impossible. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake, a vacation community in the Oregon Cascades, and seventeen-year-old Nick Verrou would rather roam the woods than work in his father&rsquo;s general store. His curiosity and connection with nature have him dodging his job at every opportunity. When he meets mysterious vacationer Willow and her family&mdash;and their unnerving pet wolf&mdash;Nick discovers that others share the powers he has tried to suppress. But Nick soon learns that nature&rsquo;s magic can be more dangerous than he ever imagined. Now the real trick will be surviving until autumn . . . The Silent Strength of Stones is the second novel by the author of A Red Heart of Memories and other acclaimed works. &ldquo;A startling new voice in contemporary fantasy&rdquo; (Locus), Nina Kiriki Hoffman &ldquo;writes about magic creatively and with great feeling&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). The Silent Strength of Stones is the 2nd book in the Chapel Hollow Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook includes the bonus story &ldquo;Words of Farewell.&rdquo; </div>

The Silent Strength of Stones

<div>Winner of the Bram Stoker Award: Tom can see ghosts&mdash;and that&rsquo;s the least of his gifts. Now he must harness his newfound magic to save Chapel Hollow. A drifter trying to hide his extraordinary powers&mdash;and find a place where he belongs&mdash;Tom Renfield has recently settled in the small Oregon town of Arcadia. But when Laura Bolte gets into his cab, he&rsquo;s plunged deep into a world of magic he didn&rsquo;t even know existed. The pair is thrown together by supernatural forces, and Tom learns that Laura is the gifted daughter of an ancient family who lives in the nearby enclave of Chapel Hollow. But the mysterious clan has dark&mdash;and dangerous&mdash;secrets. If Tom is to have any hope of finding the kinship he&rsquo;s been looking for, he and Laura must find a way to protect the home of her ancestors and the innocent citizens of Arcadia. The debut of a Philip K. Dick Award nominee who has been called &ldquo;this generation&rsquo;s Ray Bradbury,&rdquo; The Thread That Binds the Bones is an extraordinary fantasy novel by the author of A Fistful of Sky and The Silent Strength of Stones (TheSunday Oregonian). The Thread That Binds the Bones is the 1st book in the Chapel Hollow Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook includes the bonus stories &ldquo;Lost Lives&rdquo; and &ldquo;Caretaking.&rdquo; </div>

The Thread That Binds the Bones

<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>

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>

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