provocative” collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories-and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). Summary Fairy tales retold-with a twist-from “some of our best storytellers” including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy If you find it, or any of its successors, buy it, read it, keep it.READ Snow White Blood Red Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling Or not, chances are pretty darned good you'll want to read these repeatedly.Ī keeper, in other words.

So, if you have both, read this one first. The only problem, if any, is that several of these stories were also printed in The Year's 'Best Fantasy and Horror'-also, not coincidentally, edited by Windling and Datlow. It's a concept that's been explored before, perhaps, but it's fertile enough ground, so much so that editors Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow have done several volumes of similar material since. In short, it's a collection of short stories based on, or inspired by, the fairy tales you enjoyed (or were frightened by) as a child. Even if you don't, you can look at them on your shelves and think, 'my, that was good…I remember…' Keepers…well, those are the ones you hold on to, on the off-chance you'll read them again. Books are the ones you enjoy but don't have any problem trading away at the used book store. There are books, and then there are keepers. McKillip, Steve and Melanie Tem, and fifteen other leading fantasists, Snow White, Blood Red is a connoisseurs collection of fairy tales that have outgrown the nursery. Passionate, erotic, violent, and brutally honest, these stories simmer with emotions that their disarmingly charming fantasies can barely contain.Įdited by award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and featuring the work of Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Gahan Wilson, Patricia A.

Here you will find magical tales of enchantment and delight, but also stories with a dark, sinister edge in which heroes and heroines are flawed and fallible, fairies and fey beings pursue their own wicked schemes, love lists toward lust, words and actions are weapons that draw blood, and not everyone lives happily ever after. In Snow White, Blood Red, some of todays most acclaimed fantasy authors present stories that evoke the spirit of classic fairy tales, but that are decidedly for grown-ups. Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children-but not anymore.

Snow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow