Snow White, Blood Red

Ellen Datlow · Terri Windling

Sep 2013 · Union Square & Co.

About this ebook

Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children--but not anymore. In Snow White, Blood Red, some of todays most acclaimed fantasy authors present stories that evoke the spirit of classic fairy tales, but that are decidedly for grown-ups. Here you will find magical tales of enchantment and delight, but also stories with a dark, sinister edge in which heroes and heroines are flawed and fallible, fairies and fey beings pursue their own wicked schemes, love lists toward lust, words and actions are weapons that draw blood, and not everyone lives happily ever after. Passionate, erotic, violent, and brutally honest, these stories simmer with emotions that their disarmingly charming fantasies can barely contain. Edited by award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and featuring the work of Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Gahan Wilson, Patricia A. McKillip, Steve and Melanie Tem, and fifteen other leading fantasists, Snow White, Blood Red is a connoisseurs collection of fairy tales that have outgrown the nursery.

About the author

Ellen Datlow has been editing short stories in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction fields for more than thirty years. Her numerous anthologies include The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, which she co-edited for twenty-one years, and six anthologies of modern fairy tales co-edited with Terri Windling. Terri Windling is a multiple award-winning editor, artist, folklorist, essayist, and author of books for both children and adults. She has edited over thirty anthologies and is co-director of the Endicott Studio, a transatlantic organization dedicated to mythic arts.