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Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged)
Black Heart Ivory Bones - Audio MP3 CD - Unabridged Author:Terri Windling (Editor), Ellen Datlow (Editor), Kara Bartell (Narrator) 20 fairy tales hauntingly reimagined by some of today’s finest sci-fi and fantasy authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and more. — Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. Wo... more »rld Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories—and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not for children.
A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots . . . Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family, the Bears . . . An archaeologist in Victorian England is enchanted by a newly exhumed Sleeping Beauty . . . A prince of tabloid journalism is smitten by a trailer-park Rapunzel . . . A clockwork amusement park troll becomes sentient and sets out to foment an automaton revolution. These are but a few examples of the marvels that await within these pages—tales that range from the humorous to the sensuous to the haunting and horrifying, each one a treasure with a distinctly adult edge.
Rapunzel / Tanith Lee --
The crone / Delia Sherman --
Big hair / Esther Friesner --
The king with three daughters / Russell Blackford --
Boys and girls together / Neil Gaiman --
And still she sleeps / Greg Costikyan --
Snow in summer / Jane Yolen --
Briar Rose and witch / Debra Cash --
Chanterelle / Brian Stableford --
Bear it away / Michael Cadnum --
Goldilocks tells all / Scott Bradfield --
My life as a bird / Charles de Lint --
The red boots / Leah Cutter --
Rosie's dance / Emma Hardesty --
You, little match-girl / Joyce Carol Oates --
Dreaming among men / Bryn Kanar --
The cats of San Martino / Ellen Steiber --
The golem / Severna Park --
Our mortal span / Howard Waldrop --
Mr. Simonelli or the fairy widower / Susanna Clarke
Performed by Kara Bartell. 1 audio MPO3 disc (15 hr., 24 min.)« less