Faery Reel : Tales from the Twilight Realm

This ';wondrous' collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others ';is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). For this enchanting anthologya World Fantasy Award finalisteditors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling ';asked their contributors to reimagine Ferie' in the present day, or ';search its more dimly lit pathways,' and the authors have responded with bountiful imagination. The title piece is a poem by Neil Gaiman, but most of the others are longer pieces, ';like shards of stories you want to hear more of.' Jeffrey Ford ';limns the heartbreaking tale' of fairies who live in sandcastles built by young children; Ellen Steiber's ';Screaming for Fairies' ';sketches the lineaments of desire.' Bruce Glassco ';finds a different voice for Tinkerbell and Captain Hook in ';Never Never.'' Tanith Lee's ';Elvenbrood' tale is eerie and ';chilling.' Gregory Maguire, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia A. McKillip, and Emma Bull's stories all ';enchant' and bewitch. Delia Sherman's ';CATNYP' is ';both funny and deeply clever, warming the cockles of anyone who has ever had dealings with a research library, especially New York Public's' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This companion volume to The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest is ';a rewarding choice for those who like the traditional with a twist' (Booklist).