Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xi, 356 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316212946 (hardcover edition), 0316212946 (hardcover edition)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An anthology of reimagined classic tales by best-selling and award-winning young adult authors applies unique spins to old favorites, from Saladin Ahmed's interpretation of Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene to Neil Gaiman's twisted adaptation of "Sleeping Beauty."
CONTENTS
Introduction /
by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt -- That the machine may progress eternally /
by Carrie Ryan, inspired by E.M. Forster's The machine stops -- Losing her divinity /
by Garth Nix, inspired by The man who would be king -- Sleeper and the spindle /
by Neil Gaiman, inspired by Sleeping Beauty -- Cold corner /
by Tim Pratt, inspired by Henry James' The jolly corner -- Millcara /
by Holly Black, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla -- When first we were gods /
by Rick Yancey, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The birthmark -- Sirocco /
by Margaret Stohl, inspired by Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- Awakened /
by Melissa Marr, inspired by Kate Chopin's The awakening -- New Chicago /
by Kelley Armstrong, inspired by W.W. Jacob's The monkey's paw -- Soul collector /
by Kami Garcia, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin -- Without faith, without law, without joy /
by Saladin Ahmed, inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Uncaged /
by Gene Wolf, inspired by William Seabrook's "The caged white werewolf of the Saraban"