Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765332272 ISBN 13: 9780765332271

Publisher: Tor Books, 2013

Synopsis

"Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontės, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period.

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013

About this title

About the Author:

Multiple award-winning editor ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI magazine and SciFiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies. She lives in New York City.
TERRI WINDLING is a writer, artist, and book editor interested in myth, folklore, and fairy tales. She lives in a little village at the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England.

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QUEEN VICTORIA’S BOOK OF SPELLS
Table of Contents
Preface                                                           Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling                   000
Introduction: Fantasy, Magic, and
Fairyland in Nineteenth-Century England       Terri Windling                                              000
“Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells”                  Delia Sherman                                              000
“The Fairy Enterprise”                                    Jeffrey Ford                                                  000
“From the Catalogue of the Pavilion
of the Uncanny and Marvelous,
Scheduled for Premiere at the
Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)”                  Genevieve Valentine                                     000
“The Memory Book”                                       Maureen McHugh                                          000
“La Reine d’Enfer”                                           Kathe Koja                                                    000
“For the Briar Rose”                                       Elizabeth Wein                                              000
“The Governess”                                            Elizabeth Bear                                               000
“Smithfield”                                                    James P. Blaylock                                          000
“The Unwanted Women of Surrey”                 Kaaron Warren                                             000
“Charged”                                                       Leanna Renee Hieber                                    000
“Mr. Splitfoot”                                                Dale Bailey                                                    000
“Phosphorus”                                                 Veronica Schanoes                                       000
“We Without Us Were Shadows”                     Catherynne M. Valente                                  000
“The Vital Importance of the Superficial”       Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer         000
“The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown”         Jane Yolen                                                    000
“A Few Twigs He Left Behind”                        Gregory Maguire                                           000
“Their Monstrous Minds”                               Tanith Lee                                                     000
“Estella Saves the Village”                              Theodora Goss                                             000
About the Authors                                                                                                              000
Recommended Reading                                                                                                       000

Copyright © 2013 by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0765332272
• ISBN 13: 9780765332271
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Datlow Ellen, Windling Terri