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Fairy Tales
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April 1999
Compiled by Tanya Mann
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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Roger Zelazny's "Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming"
--very humourous fairy tale.
Michael Swanick's "The Iron Dragon's Daughter"
--kind of scary tale where the faires kidnap humans as slaves.
Graham Joyce's "The Tooth Fairy"
--a dark tale. (Just the kind I like!)
Patrick O'Leary's "The Gift"
--a wonderful fantasy/fairy tale, complete with a quest, dark forces, a hero, and a wonderful story.
George RR Martin "The Ice Dragon",
George Terri Windling edited the Fairy Tale series, which includes Pamela Dean's Tam Lin; Charles de Lint's Jack, the Giant Killer; Patricia Wrede's Snow White and Rose Red; etc.
Sheri Tepper, "Beauty"
Robin McKinley, "Beauty", "Deerskin"
Angela Carter and Tanith Lee
--both have done collections of modern fairy tales.
Jack Zipes "Don't Bet on the Prince"
--truly Grim Tales, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
William Goldman. "The Princess Bride "
Tad Williams, "Caliban's Hour"
-retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest from Caliban's point of view.
Jane Yolen, a collection titled "Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast."
In it she has written continuations of a number of classic fairy tales such as 'Tough Alice'(Alice returns to Wonderland and faces off with the Jabberwocky), 'The Bridge's Complaint'(the bridge from "The 3 Billy Goats Gruff" misses it's friend, the Troll), and 'Lost Girls' (a different viewpoint on Peter Pan), to name just a few.
Jane Yolen, "Briar Rose"
--the tale of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the Holocaust.
Neal Gaiman's newest "Stardust", "Neverwhen"
--is very much an urban fairy tale
Terry Pratchett, "Witches Abroad".
Peter S. Beagle "The Last Unicorn", "The Innkeeper's' Song"
James Thurber "13 Clocks", "The White Deer"
Lord Dunsany "The King of Elfand's Daughter", "The Charwoman's Shadow"
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