Snow White, Blood Red

Fairy tales retoldwith a twistfrom ';some of our best storytellers' including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). In this ';no holds barred ... nightmarish ... provocative' collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime storiesand give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman's ';Troll Bridge'; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson's ';The Frog Prince'; in Tanith Lee's ';Snow-Drop,' a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem's ';Little Poucet,' a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in ';Little Red.' Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you've never dared to imagine.