Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
How would it be if Snow White were the real villain & the wicked queen just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty should be the mistake of a lifetime--of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities? Only...
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How would it be if Snow White were the real villain & the wicked queen just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty should be the mistake of a lifetime--of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities?
Only Tanith Lee could do justice to it. In RED AS BLOOD, she displays her soaring imagination at its most fantastically mischievous. Not for nothing was the title story named as a Nebula nominee. Not for nothing was the author of THE BIRTHGRAVE & THE STORM LORD called by New York's Village Voice, "Goddess-Empress of the Hot Read."
Here are the world-famous tales of such as the Brothers Grimm as they might have been retold by the Sisters Grimmer! Fairy tales for children? Not on your life!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780879977900 (0879977906)
Publish date: January 3rd 1983
Publisher: Daw Books
Pages no: 186
Edition language: English
This collection of reworked fairy tales was fascinating and thought-provoking. They are arranged so that each story is set in a different time and different places. The Paid Piper is set in Asia in the last century B.C., Red As Blood in 14th century Europe, Thorns in 15th century Eurasia, When The ...
Retellings of classic fairytales. Lots of inversions of good and evil, twisted religious/mythological allegories, poetic imagery, and deliciously ambiguous gorgeousness. A re-read for me.
Not so keen on old stories being revamped