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Ellen Datlow

Snow White, Blood Red Mass Market Paperback – December 1, 1993

by Ellen Datlow (Author), Terri Windling (Author)

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Once upon a time, fairy tales
were for children . . . But no longer.

You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite -- lush and erotic, often dark and disturbing mystical journeys through a phantasmagoric landscape of distinctly adult sensibilities . . . where there is no such thing as "happily ever after."

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432 pages
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English
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Eos
Publication date

December 1, 1993
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4.19 x 1.08 x 6.75 inches
ISBN-10

0380718758
ISBN-13

978-0380718757
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Ellen Datlow was the fiction editor at Omnimagazine for seventeen years. She is now editor of thewebzine Event Horizon She has edited numerous successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, Little Deaths, Off Limits, Twists of the Tale, and Vanishing Acts. With Terri Windling she has edited the popular anthology series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for thirteen years. A multiple World Fantasy Award-winner, she lives in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eos (December 1, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0380718758
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0380718757
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1.08 x 6.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,422,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,620 in Historical Fantasy (Books)
- #133,736 in American Literature (Books)

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Terri Windling
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Terri Windling is a writer, artist, and book editor interested in myth, folklore, fairy tales, and the ways they are used in contemporary arts. She has published over 40 books (novels, children's books, and anthologies), winning nine World Fantasy Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor." Her adult novel "The Wood Wife" won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, and her collection "The Armless Maiden" was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. She has also published numerous essays on myth, fairy tales, mythic arts, and fantasy literature.
"If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as writer, as painter, as editor, as muse." - Jane Yolen
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Ellen Datlow
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I've been a short story editor for almost forty years, starting with OMNI Magazine and webzine for 17 years, then EVENT HORIZON, a webzine, and SCIFICTION, the fiction area of SCIFI.COM. I currently acquire and edit short fiction and novellas for Tor.com and I edit original and reprint anthologies. I've lived in NYC most of my life, although I travel a lot.
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Angela Capel

Not for me

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2020

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This collection was not what I expected. While there were a few gems in here, I would say that about 60% of the tales in here were about very rapey men and turned my stomach. In my mind "adult" fairy tales does not equal predatory, so this did not meet my expectations.

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Paula Harmon

Don't waste money or time on this book

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2019

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Most of the stories are awful. One is about a sexual predator grooming the mother to get to the daughter. Nasty!!! Most are depressing, violent, and/or sexual.

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tilla

Not likely to read this again

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2019

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Sorry to say but there's nothing in this book I really enjoyed. There was nothing particularly wrong with the stories, but they were all too depressing to be enjoyable.

I particularly disliked Puss, a retelling of Puss in Boots. I have cats and to think of anyone treating their kitty the way the guy treated his really ticked me off. The best part of that one was the end.

I'm sure other readers will have different opinions and probably find a great deal to interest them as the series is pretty popular. This particular volume just didn't do anything for me.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021

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The introductions were fascinating. Datlow and Windling wrote of adult fantasies and horrors to be found throughout this anthology, and did they deliver! Some of the stories were creepy beyond belief and I found it hard to lime them, but most were deliciously wicked and thought provoking. My favorites were Charles de Lint's "The Moon's Drowning While I Sleep", Elizabeth A Lynn's The Princess in the Tower", Patricia McKillip's " The Snow Queen ", Caroline Stevermer and Ryan Edmonds " The Springfield Swans" and Susan Ward's " Like Red, Red Rose". If you love your fairy tales on the darker side you'll love this collection.

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Kip

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021

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Read this book when I was a kid, forgot it existed until I remembered a story from it. Couldn't remember the name for years just knew it was by Neil Gaiman. Spent hours and hours researching, found it. I'm dumb, Good book.

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Cynthia Johnson

Good collection of well written stories but avoid if you are conservative Christian.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021

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Some stories are morally repugnant but they are almost all well written.

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Nicole Anderson

Interesting re-telling of fairy tales

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022

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Some of these really felt like original fairy tales with disturbing imagery and concepts. A lot feel like warning tales filled with foreboding.

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Holly Harris

Not So Happily Ever After

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018

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A collection of fantasy stories based on fairy tales. Most are quite dark.

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Mig Bardsley

I didn't like most of these stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2021

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The majority of them seemed to me to be trying too hard - to live up to the rather cliched idea that fairy stories were really all about horrible things. Instead of the sharpness and clarity that I like in a good short story, there was a lot of mystification and hints and suggestions. And not many of them seemed to me to be saying anything new. I did like the pied piper story (an original twist) and the last one in the book (can't remember it's title but I liked the fairy tale juxtaposed with the real life horrors). I enjoyed the Ice Queen one though that wasn't particularly new. I also found many of the intros a bit pretentious. Still, many of them were well written as you'd expect with such good writers. I guess I'm not good at understanding writing that's not clear and straightforward :)

Cthulhuhatesravioli

A book that brought me back to a memory

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2021

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I remember the first time I read this book. It gripped me like a first flush of teenage love. I remember reading it at night, surreptitiously, like a secret I wanted to hold to myself. This was a book I didn't want to share.
This book took me back to those intense emotions. It was glorious and terrifying and magical. Rather like the stories inside it. Each one is a wonder, a faberge egg of words, but one will grab you and wind itself into your thoughts and make a memory that will glow and guide you through those deep dark woods.
You will understand this review much more when you read the book.

Ryann Farmer

Tales as old as time; retold

Reviewed in Canada on November 6, 2014

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Wonderful short stories; I'd found the second instalment at a thrift store and after reading it; had to buy the first one. I love faerie tales and am always somewhat skeptical of the newer retellings but these were great! Diverse subject matter; stories range from funny to dark. "Snow-Drop" and "Little Red" were my favourites (even if the latter had me cringing and when finished I had to step away from the book for a bit) Definitely a must-get for faerie tale lovers.

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Something for everone

Reviewed in Australia on April 16, 2021

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Some interesting storiesalong with some that really do much for me. As with all Anthropologies I get to find new authors to keep an eye out for and new stories in world I've already visited.

Olivia R. Lee

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2014

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Wonderful book! I highly recommend it!

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