Black Thorn, White Rose - Softcover

Ellen Datlow; Terri Windling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380771292 ISBN 13: 9780380771295

Publisher: prime, 1995

Synopsis

A second collection by the editors of Snow White, Blood Red provides eighteen more fairy tales that are told with mature themes and includes Roger Zelazny's version of "Godfather Death" and Peter Straub's "Cinderella." Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Datlow was the fiction editor at Omnimagazine for seventeen years. She is now editor of thewebzine Event Horizon She has edited numerous successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, Little Deaths, Off Limits, Twists of the Tale, and Vanishing Acts. With Terri Windling she has edited the popular anthology series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for thirteen years. A multiple World Fantasy Award-winner, she lives in New York City.

From Kirkus Reviews:

The editors of the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror concoct a potent brew of fairy tales spiked with feminism. These intoxicating delights are not meant for children or the timid. Storm Constantine retells the princess and the pea through the voice of the widowed queen of Gordania, a narrator so wickedly charming, sinister, and intimate with the use of poisons that she brings to mind ancient Rome's Livia. In Nancy Kress's version of Rumpelstiltskin, an enchanted young woman surrenders her talent to spin gold, and ultimately her own life, to save her only son. Susan Wade presents overweight princess Ylianna who, to gain the love of a prince, uses a toxic powder to metamorphose into a raven-haired beauty. Life as a mortal is so unbearable after his rejection that Ylianna transforms her wounded spirit into the magnificent black swan. Death gains a face--and a godson--in Roger Zelazny's witty story about the grim reaper who, despite his power of death-over- life, cannot resist sparing his favorite football players. No matter which tour you take through this frightening and dark enchanted wood, Datlow and Windling again prove themselves the best guides. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: prime
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0380771292
• ISBN 13: 9780380771295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400