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Lonely and withdrawn since her father's death, "The Girl in the Attic" finds love and understanding where she least expects it in Lois Metzger's poignant reimagining of "Rapunzel."
A young woman marries her neighbor to save her family from poverty—only to encounter her husband's dark "Chambers of the Heart"—in this tale of "Bluebeard" from Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
Inspired by the old British folk ballad "Cruel Sister," Gregory Frost's "The Harp That Sang" tells a story of jealousy, greed, murder, and spiritual vengeance between two sisters.
"Tom Thumb" is born in a laboratory—and discovers he is not the only product of unusual experiments—in "A Life in Miniature" by Bruce Coville.
In Katherine Vaz's "My Swan Sister," a family learns the value of sharing love in the time allotted to them in this beautiful retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans."
From editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling comes Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, which collects these stories and eight more from New York Times–bestselling, award-winning, and fan favorite authors sharing their own unique visions of folklore.
Other contributors include:
Neil Gaiman * Kathe Koja * Tanith Lee * Christopher Rowe * Will Shetterly * Midori Snyder * Jane Yolen * Pat York
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About the author
Ellen Datlow was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award- winning fiction area of scifi.com, for almost six years. Previously, she was fiction editor of Omni for over seventeen years. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Award, and the 2005 Locus Award, for her work as an editor. Sci Fiction won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Website. Datlow and Windling are the co-editors of over eleven original anthologies and of seventeen volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Terri Windling is an editor, writer, painter, and passionate advocate of mythic arts. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, as well as the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. During the last two decades she's edited over twenty-five anthologies with Ellen Datlow, as well as several other anthologies, including one called Faery. Her paintings, which are based on folklore and feminist themes, have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States, England, and France.
