Snow White, Blood Red

Ellen Datlow — 1993

Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children . . . But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite -- lush and erotic, often dark and disturbing mystical journeys through a phantasmagoric landscape of distinctly adult sensibilities . . . where there is no such thing as "happily ever after."

Reviews

Sans@sans

Sep 11, 2021

Started off promising. The first few stories were really good but it seemed to kind of drop off from there. That's one problem with anthologies - you usually don't like all the authors. Some of the fairy tales were interpretations of established stories, others seemed to come from out of the blue. Generally, the interpretations were not as good as the original stories in this collection. The more disappointed I got, the more I skimmed and didn't bother actually read.