Contents |
Introduction / by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt -- That the machine may progress eternally / by Carrie Ryan, inspired by E.M. Forster's The machine stops -- The king of Elfland's daughter / by Charles Vess -- Losing her divinity / by Garth Nix, inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The man who would be king -- The sleeper and the spindle / by Neil Gaiman, inspired by Sleeping Beauty -- Kai Lung's golden hours / by Charles Vess -- The cold corner / by Tim Pratt, inspired by Henry James's The jolly corner -- Millcara / by Holly Black, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla -- Figures of earth / by Charles Vess -- When first we were gods / by Rick Yancey, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The birth-mark -- Sirocco / by Margaret Stohl, inspired by Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- The shaving of Shagpat / by Charles Vess -- Awakened / by Melissa Marr, inspired by Kate Chopin's The awakening -- New Chicago / by Kelley Armstrong, inspired by W.W. Jacob's The monkey's paw -- The wood beyond the world / by Charles Vess -- The soul collector / by Kami Garcia, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin -- Goblin market / by Charles Vess -- Without faith, without law, without joy / by Saladin Ahmed, inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene -- Uncaged / by Gene Wolfe, inspired by William Seabrook's The caged white werewolf of the Saraban. |
Abstract |
"In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them, the ones that have become ingrained in modern culture, and the ones that have been too long overlooked"--Dust jacket flap. |