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Italian Folktales

Italo Calvino · 763 pages

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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

Hamilton Wright Mabie · 266 pages

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The Crimson Fairy Book

Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 250 pages

Twenty four fairy tales from the folklore of Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Serbia, Tunis, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily.

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Once Upon a Curse: Stories and Fairy Tales for Adult Readers

Patricia C. Wrede, Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Cindy Lynn Speer, Siobhan Carroll, Imogen Howson, Lucy A. Snyder · 262 pages

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The Golden Book of Fairy Tales

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Segur · 160 pages

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Once Upon a Dream

Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, Marianne Willman · 382 pages

The four ladies who brought us Once upon a Castle and Once upon a Star are at it again with this latest anthology, Once upon a Dream. These stories revolve around the magic and dreams that draw our heroes and heroines together.

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Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales

Neil Gaiman, Carrie Ryan, Gene Wolfe, Kelley Armstrong, Rick Yancey, Kami Garcia, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Margaret Stohl, Saladin Ahmed · 368 pages

An anthology of reimagined classic tales 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." This anthology of reimagined classic tales are written by best-selling and award-winning young adult authors such as Carrie Ryan, Charles Vess, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, Tim Pratt, Ho

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Black Thorn, White Rose

Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling · 317 pages

Collects 18 stories of darkness and dread from Roger Zelansky's tale of Death's disobedient godson to Peter Straub's blood-chilling examination of a gargantuan Cinderella and her terrible twisted art.

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From the Stories of Old: A Collection of Fairy Tale Retellings

Heather Hayden, B.C. Marine, Renee Harvey, Allie May, Kelsie Engen, Corinne Morier, Lynden Wade, J. L. Bernard, Louise Ross, Mckayla Eaton, Katelyn Barbee, Matthew Dewar, J.E. Klimov · 382 pages

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Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales

Yasmine Galenorn, Alethea Kontis, Annie Bellet, Anthea Sharp, Phaedra Weldon, Christine Pope, Jennifer Blackstream, Donna Augustine, C. Gockel, Audrey Faye, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson · 414 pages

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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

Franz Xaver von Schonwerth · 264 pages

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Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A.G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige, Carrie Ryan, Megan Shepherd, Nova Ren Suma, McCormick Templeman, Cat Winters · 400 pages

A host of the smartest young adult authors come together in this collection of scary stories and psychological thrillers curated by *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea*'s April Genevieve Tucholke. Each story draws from a classic tale or two—sometimes of the horror genre, sometimes not—to inspire something new and fresh and terrifying. There are no superficial scares here; these are stories

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Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond

John Joseph Adams, Douglas Cohen · 380 pages

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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Neil Gaiman · 352 pages

"En las manos maestras de Neil Gaiman, la magia es mucho más que un mero juego de engaños. La destreza y el poder de invención de este gran fabulador transforman el entorno cotidiano en un mundo hechizado por sucesos sombríos y extraños, en el que una anciana puede comprar el Santo Grial en una tienda de segunda mano, unos asesinos se anuncian en los clasificados de un periódico bajo la rúbrica ±C

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Tales of the Peculiar

Ransom Riggs · 165 pages

Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.

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Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

Renee Ahdieh, Soman Chainani, Susan Dennard, Sarah Enni, Marissa Meyer, Cindy Pon, Victoria Schwab, Samantha Shannon, Adam Silvera, Andrew Smith, April Genevieve Tucholke, Nicola Yoon, Sasha Alsberg, Whitney Atkinson, Tina Burke, Catriona Feeney, Jesse George, Zoe Herdt, Samantha Lane, Sophia Lee, R · 353 pages

**LEAVE IT TO THE HEROES TO SAVE THE WORLD--VILLAINS JUST WANT TO *RULE* THE WORLD.** In this unique anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors team up with thirteen influential booktubers to reimagine the origin stories of the villains we love to hate--infamous foes from fairy tales, mythology, and brand-new worlds. Based on comic book-inspired enemies in pop culture and classics su

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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde · 1,216 pages

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter · 486 pages

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories, from countries all around the world from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones, crafty women and bad girls, enchantresses and midwives, rascal aunts and odd sisters.

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