Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy
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Douglas Smith
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780756403690 (0756403693)
Publish date: July 5th 2006
Publisher: DAW
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Is this the best collection of fairy tale retellings? No. The book is about half good and half bad. Stand out stories include:"Shall We Dance" by C. S. Friedman. This is story has a very good line about dung. Honest."Bitter Fruit" by Rosemary Edgehill. The type of spooky story you have to read...
Out of 20 short stories, only three didn't induce nausea or boredom. Rosemary Edghill's "Bitter Fruit: A Tale of Crownland" was a grown up and viscerally disturbing story about a woman who seeks justice. Scott William Carpenter's "Heart of Stone," in which a calculating Medusa experiments with wha...