Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
British Fantasy Award nominee 2014.
Edited by Stephen Jones. Illustarated by Alan Lee.
The tales of the Brothers Grimm, including such classic tales as Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin, have been translated into upwards of a hundred different languages, and are known and loved throughout the world.
Now award-winning editor Stephen Jones has tasked some of the brightest and best horror writers in Britain, America and Europe with reinterpreting some of the traditional Hausmärchen, putting a decidedly darker spin on the old stories.
Likely to include such notable authors as:
Ramsey Campbell
Peter Crowther
Christopher Fowler
Neil Gaiman
Joanne Harris
Markus Heitz
Brian Hodge
Tanith Lee
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Brian Lumley
Garth Nix
Reggie Oliver
Robert Shearman
Angela Slatter
Michael Marshall Smith
Contents:
- “Introduction: Don’t Scare the children” by Stephen Jones
- “The Wilful Child”
- “Find My Name” by Ramsey Campbell
- “The Singing Bone”
- “Down to a Sunless Sea” by Neil Gaiman
- “Rapunzel”
- “Open Your Window, Golden Hair” by Tanith Lee
- “The Hare’s Bride”
- “Crossing the Line” by Garth Nix
- “Hansel and Gretel”
- “Peckish” by Robert Shearman
- “The Three Little Men in the Wood”
- “Look Inside” by Michael Marshall Smith
- “The Story of a Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”
- “Fräulein Fearnot” by Markus Heitz
- “Cinderella”
- “The Ash-Boy” by Christopher Fowler
- “The Elves #1”
- “The Changeling” by Brian Lumley
- “The Nixie of the Mill-Pond”
- “The Silken Drum” by Reggie Oliver
- “The Robber Bridegroom”
- “By the Weeping Gate” by Angela Slatter
- “Fräu Trude”
- “Anything to Me is Sweeter, Than to Cross Shock-Headed Peter” by Brian Hodge
- “The Elves #2”
- “The Artemis Line” by Peter Crowther
- “The Old Woman in the Wood”
- “The Silken People” by Joanne Harris
- “Rumpelstiltskin”
- “Come Unto Me” by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- “The Shroud”
Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones (born 1953) is an acclaimed editor of numerous award-winning horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications. Jones has edited anthologies such as the Best New Horror series, Dark Terrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes and The Conan Chronicles, 1 and The Conan Chronicles, 2 by Robert E. Howard. Jones has also been co-editor of several books with Kim Newman, such as Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books with 200 essays on seminal horror books by acclaimed writers of this genre. Jones also edited Dancing with the Dark, a collection of stories of allegedly real life encounters with the paranormal by established horror writers. Jones has been the recipient of a Hugo award and many Bram Stoker Awards.