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Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
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Include books by the same authorAngela 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.
Black Swan, White Raven
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling · 368 pages
An anthology of revisionist fairy tales, many with a feminist slant. In the tale of Snow White, the villain is not the stepmother but the stepfather and the dwarfs are wise women. A total of 19 tales.
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
Kathleen Ragan · 480 pages
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
The Red Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 330 pages
Twenty-nine fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, including The Golden Goose, The Story of Sigurd, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
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
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Carmen Gimenez Smith · 543 pages
The founder of the literary journal "Fairy Tale Review" collects stories inspired by classic fairy tales and written by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Francine Prose, Kevin Brockmeier, and Shelley Jackson.
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
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
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Joanna Cole · 792 pages
Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
John Joseph Adams, Douglas Cohen · 380 pages
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.
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Nikita Gill · 176 pages
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie · 266 pages
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
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 405 pages
Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.
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
Sisters of The Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 352 pages
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
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
The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Franz Xaver von Schonwerth · 264 pages