A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales

Award-winning and New York Times–bestselling authors adapt classic fairy tales into their own fantastical visions in this short story collection.

Mistreated by her stepfamily, a young woman with a kind heart learns that, when it comes to love, size doesn’t matter in Jane Yolen’s “Cinder Elephant.”

Feeling hurt and betrayed by the woman they cared for when she ran off with a prince, “The Seven Stage a Comeback” by embarking on a quest in Gregory Maguire’s imagined continuation of “Snow White.”

A teenager who doesn’t quite fit in at school or at home learns that every “Ugly Duckling” eventually becomes a swan in Kathe Koja’s “Becoming Charise.”

“The Goose Girl’s Horse” helps a timid princess defeat a devious goblin—and her own insecurities—in this heartfelt tale of friendship by Nancy Farmer.

In Australia, a young man yearning for a world beyond his ordinary life discovers a lost treasure—and evidence that we are not alone—in Janeen Webb’s “Arabian Nights”-inspired “Ali Baba and the Forty Aliens.”

These stories—and eight more—reimagine folklore in clever, wondrous, and witty ways in A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales from multi-award-winning anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. 

Other contributors include: 

Michael Cadnum * Neil Gaiman * Tanith Lee * Kelly Link * Patricia A. McKillip * Garth Nix * Delia Sherman * Katherine Vaz