Silver Birch Blood Moon - Audio MP3 CD - Unabridged Author:Terri Windling (Editor), Ellen Datlow (Editor), Jo Howarth (Narrator) The four previous volumes in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's anthology series of fairly tales retold with a distinctively modern edge have been hailded by reviewers as "brilliant", "provocative," and "disturbing". In this triumphant new collection of original fiction, 21 of today's leading writers spin the... more » cherished fables of childhood into glittering gold -- offering magical tales for adults, as seductive as they are sophisticated.
A jealous prince plots the destruction of his hated brother's wedding by inventing a "magic" suit of clothing visible only to the pure at heart.... A young girl's strange fairy-tale obsession results in a brutal murder.... An embittered mother cares for her dying son, who is trapped in a thicket that guards a sleeping beauty.... In a bleak and desolate industrial wasteland, a group of violent outcasts lays the tattered myths of one millennium to rest and gives terrifying birth to those of the next.
Erotic, compelling, witty, and altogether extraordinary, these stories lay bare our innermost demons and desires, imaginatively transforming our youthful fantasies into things darker, slyer, and more delightfully subversive.
Kiss kiss / Tanith Lee --
Carabosse / Delia Sherman --
The price / Patricia Briggs --
Glass coffin / Caitlin R. Kiernam --
The vanishing virgin / Harvey Jacobs --
Clad in gossamer / Nancy Kress --
Precious / Nalo Hopkinson --
The sea hag / Melissa Lee Shaw --
The frog chauffeur / Garry Kilworth --
Dybbuk in the bottle / Russell William Asplund --
The shell box / Karawynn Long --
Ivory bones / Susan Wade --
The wild heart / Anne Bishop --
You wandered off like a foolish child to break your heart and mine / Pat York --
Arabian phoenix / India Edghill --
Toad-Rich / Michael Cadnum --
Skin so green and fine / Wendy Wheeler --
The willful child, the black dog, and the beanstalk / Melanie Tem --
Locks / Neil Gaiman --
Marsh-Magic / Robin McKinley --
Toad / Patricia A. McKillip
Performed by Jo Howarth. 1 audio MP3 disc (12 hr., 31 min.) « less