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Fairy Tales for Adults
Return to Fiction_L Booklists Menu September 2002 (To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
 BOOKS Asaro, Catherine Quantum Rose (Beauty and the beast) Atwood, Margaret Good Bones and Simple Murders, The Robber Bride (Robber Bridegroom) Beagle, Peter S. : The Last Unicorn Block, Francesca Lia : The Rose and the Beast Brust, Steven : The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars Byatt, A.S. : The Djinn in the nightingale's eye (Genie in the Lamp) Card, Orson Scott : Enchantment (Sleeping Beauty). Carter, Angela : Burning your boats (Mature); The bloody chamber (erotic retellings); Company of wolves Cooper, Susan : Dark is Rising series (Arthur) : The Dark is Rising; The Grey King, Silver on the Tree Coover, Robert Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) Cott, Jonathan : Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale & Fantasy (collection) Dalkey, Kara : The Nightingale; Little Sister and sequel Heavenward Path (Japanese myth) Datlow, Ellen & T. Windling, eds. : Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (annual series) ; Snow White, Blood Red ; Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears; Black Heart, Ivory Bones (and many other titles in this series). Dean, Pamela : Tam Lin (fairy court) DeLint, Charles: Jack of Kinrowan (originally Jack the Giant Killer and sequel Drink Down the Moon) ; Greenmantle ; "Our Lady of the Harbor" (Little Mermaid) (story) ; Someplace to Be Flying (Native American animal spirits) De Vos, Gail and Altmann, Anna : New Tales for Old (8 Grimms' tales) ; Tales, Then and Now (various) Donoghue, Emma : Kissing the Witch : Old Tales in New Skins Eickhoff, Randy Lee : (Ulster Cycle: Irish epics) The Raid (Tain bo Cuailnge); The Sorrows (Deidre) ; The Feast (Fled Bricriu) ; Destruction of the Inn, The (Irish epic myth) Fairy Tales for feminists series by Attic Press: Sweeping Beauties; Mad and bad fairies; Rapunzel's revenge; Ride on Rapunzel; Cinderella on the ball; Alice in Thunderland Fletcher, Susan : Shadow Spinner (Arabian Nights) Gaiman, Neil : Stardust (fairy/human baby); Neverwhere; American gods Galloway, Priscilla : Truly Grim Tales (Grimm) ; Snake Dreamer (Medusa) Gellis, Roberta : (Greek & Roman myths): Shimmering Splendor (Cupid and Psyche) ; Dazzling Brightness (Hades/Persephone story) ; Bull God (Minotaur) Geras, Adele : Watching the Roses (Sleeping Beauty) ; The Tower Room (Rapunzel in a girls' school) Goldman, William : The Princess Bride Goldstein, Lisa : Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (Arthur) Grass, Gunter The Flounder (The Fisherman and his Wife) Haddix, Margaret Peterson : Just Ella (Cinderella after the Ball) Herbert, James Once (Modern fairy tale) Hoffman, Alice : Aquamarine (Little Mermaid) Holmes, Kate Wild Swans (Sister and Swan Brothers) Hooper, Kay What Dreams May Come Jones, Diana Wynne : Fire and Hemlock (Tam Lin) ; Dogsbody (Sirius / Greek mythology) Jones, Linda Debuty and the Beast; Someone's been Sleeping in my Bed (Goldilocks); Big Bad Wolf; Cinderfella; Jackie and the Giant Kaye, M.M. : The Ordinary Princess Kerr, Peg : The Wild Swans (updated to NYC/gay culture) Kindl, Patricia : Goose Chase (Goose Girl) Kushner, Ellen Thomas the Rhymer Lackey, Mercedes Fire Rose (Beauty and the Beast); Firebird (Russian fairy tale Firebird); Serpent's Shadow (Snow White); Gates of Sleep (Sleeping Beauty) Lee, Tanith : Red as Blood : Tales from the Sisters Grimmer ; White as Snow Levine, Gail Carson : Ella Enchanted (Cinderella) ; The Princess Tales : The Princess Test ; The Fairy's Mistake ; Cinderellis and the Glass Hill ; Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep Lewis, C.S. : Till We Have Faces (Cupid and Psyche) Lickiss, Rebecca Never After (Sleeping Beauty and other tales) Maguire, Gregory : Confessions of an Ugly StepSister (Cinderella) ; Wicked (Oz : Wicked Witch of the West) MarilIier, Juliet : Sevenwaters Trilogy (Celtic myth) : Daughter of the Forest ; Son of the Shadows ; and Child of the Prophecy Martin, George RR The Ice Dragon McCarthy, Wil ed. Once upon a Galaxy (science fiction versions) McKillip, Patricia : Winter Rose (Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer) , Tower at Stony Wood (ladies / towers / knights; selkie) McKiernan, Dennis Once upon a Winter's Night (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) McKinley, Robin : Deerskin (Perrault's Donkeyskin) ; Beauty (Beauty & the Beast) ; Rose Daughter (Beauty & the Beast) ; Spindle's End (Sleeping Beauty) ; The Blue Sword (various) ; Hero and the Crown (various); Outlaws of Sherwood (Robin Hood) ; collections: The Door in the Hedge ; A Knot in the Grain McLaren, Clemence : Greek mythology: Aphrodite's Blessing (Atalanta, Andromeda, Psyche) ; Waiting for Odysseus ; Inside the Walls of Troy Napoli, Donna Jo : The Magic Circle (Hansel & Gretel) ; Crazy Jack (Jack in the Beanstalk) ; Beast (Beauty and the Beast) ; Sirena (Siren, Odysseus myth) ; Zel (Rapunzel) ; Spinners (Rumpelstiltskin) ; Prince of the Pond and sequel, Jimmy the Pickpocket of the Palace (Frog Prince) Nelson, Gertrude Mueller : Here All Dwell Free Orgel, Doris : The Princess and the God (Cupid & Psyche) ; Ariadne, Awaken (Greek mythology) Pullman, Philip : I Was a Rat (Cinderella? as an 8 yo boy) ; His Dark Materials Series: Golden Compass, Amber Spyglass, Subtle Knife Renault, Mary : Bull from the Sea (Europa) ; The King Must Die (Theseus) Rhys, Jean : Sleep It Off, Lady (o/o print) Richardson, Bill : After Hamelin Ritter, Margaret : Simon Says Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann The Godmother (Fairy tale characters in modern Seattle); Godmother's apprentice; Godmother's web Schmidt, Gary D. : Straw into gold (Rumpelstiltskin) Springer, Nancy Fair Peril (frog prince) Stewart, Sean Nobody's Son (what happens after the hero rescues the princess and marries her) Strauss, Gwen : Trail of Stones (poetry) Sutcliff, Rosemary: Tristan and Iseult Swanick, Michael The Iron Dragon's Daughter Synge, Ursula Swan's Wing Tepper, Sheri S. : Beauty ; (various tales); Plague of angels (strong fairy tale elements); Family tree (strong fairy tale elements) Thomson, Sarah : The Dragon's Son (King Arthur/Camelot) Townley, Roderick : The Great Good Thing Valenzuela, Luisa : Symmetries Vande Veldt, Vivian : The Rumplestiltskin Problem ; Tales From the Brothers Grimm and Sisters Weird Voight, Cynthia : Orfe (Orpheus & Euridyce) Walker, Barbara G: Feminist fairy tales (Mature) Wilson, Susan Beauty (Beauty and the beast) Windling, Terri : A Wolf at the Door (younger) ; The Armless Maiden(Child abuse/Fairy tales) (Mature) (Windling's - former? - The Fairy Tale series for older teens includes: Yolen's Briar Rose, Dean's Tam Lin, Lee's White as Snow, Wrede's Snow White & Rose Red) Wrede, Patricia C. : Enchanted Forest Chronicles (unusual princess) : (Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons) ; Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia Wrede (also originally included de Lint's Jack the Giant Killer and Dean's Tam Lin) Jones, Diana Wynne Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin (fairy tale elements); Fire and Hemlock (Thomas the Rhymer) Yolen, Jane : Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty / Holocaust) Zelazny, Roger Bring me the head of Prince Charming Zipes, Jack David: (history/criticism/collections):Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves ; Don't Bet on the Prince ; Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood ; When Dreams Come True MOVIES
Cocteau's Beauty & the Beast WEBSITES
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/fairies.html Bibliography of novelizations |
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