The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over&150benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of...
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Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over&150benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of today's best fantasists for short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of world faery lore and classic faery literature, and update the old tales, or shine a bold new light on the old. This companion to the World Fantasy Finalist The Green Man is unique, provocative, and thoroughly magical-like the faeries themselves
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670059140 (0670059145)
Publish date: August 3rd 2004
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Series: Mythic Fiction (#2)
Being an anthology there's something for everyone in here. While several of the stories are very typical Western/British faeries, there are plenty of stories that take fairie-like creatures from other cultural lore and form stories around them, ranging from Japanese, Brazilian, Filipino... It was a ...
Uno de los primeros audiolibros que puedo escuchar de principio a fin. Confieso que llegué a él por ciertos autores, pero me llevé una grata sorpresa con el resto. Lo mejorcito para mi fueron las historias de Gregory Maguire, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford y Tanith Lee, pero lo ...
I actually found the forwards to be of more interest than the stories. The overview of the literary history of folklore and fairytales was very interesting, but most of the stories themselves did not catch my fancy.
So many wonderful stories! I love the feel of fairy tales set in modern times...it makes one wonder if there really are fae folk wandering about...
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