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7 reviews
Wendy Froud, John Lawrence Jones, ...

Simon & Schuster, 2001

Magical tale
This is an extremely beautiful book. With Wendy Froud's doll making skills and Terri Windling's magical story weaving, teamed up with Brian Froud well, it sounds too good to be true. This follow up to "A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale" did not disappoint. Sneezle, our beloved hero from the first book, is again teamed up with his friend Twig for a quest to find out why Winter has not yet ...

Bordertown: Where Magic Meets Rock & Roll

1 review
Terri Windling, Mark Alan Arnold

Tor Fantasy, 1996

Superb Anthology of Urban Fantasy
This is an amazing book. Windling has created a shared universe in which Faery has returned to the modern world. However, it's not all happy elves frolicking with humans. The city/cities where Faery have appeared no longer support technology really, and the elves can be right bastards. It's gritty, realistic (for fantasy), and the stories tend to be incredibly well written. This is, in my ...

The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection/1988 (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror)

1 review
Ellen Datlow

St Martins Pr, 1989

I'm still borrowing it from my father....
My father bought this when I was a little girl new, and he read a few stories in it until i started taking an interest in it. He let me borrow it and i read most of the stories in it, read them again, read the rest of the stories, read all of them again, and again and again, well, lets just say it's been years now and i'm STILL reading it and i'm STILL borrowing it. I love all of it, especially ...

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection

1 review

St. Martin's Griffin, 1996

Expand Your Mind
This book is the only one of twelve editions that I have read. It is absolutely amazing. Not only does it question our common place world but it bends, strechtes and recreates you mind. I am looking to buy the book so I can read it all and have the stories at my finger tips. I am also going to read the next editions. Try one story, you will be hooked!

Bordertown: A Chronicle of the Borderlands

1 review
Mark Alan Arnold

Roc, 1986

GREAT READ!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first book in the bordertown series I read was a travliers guide. I was hooked after that. This book is a great urban fantasy. I makes me want to run away and just be young and care free.The introduction by Farrel Din is perfect, He is a character I alaways want to know more about. Little glimpes of his charater in other books is like torture. Danceland is like a slice of pie with the ...

The Faeries of Spring Cottage

2 reviews
Wendy Froud, Terri Windling

Simon & Schuster, 2003

Best one yet in the series
Here is the third (and in my opinion)and the best adventure yet in the Sneezle series written by Terri Windling and with beautiful artwork by the doll maker Wendy Froud. In this new adventure, Sneezlewort Rowanberry Rootmuster Boggs the Seventh, who is a tree root faery, is on his way to tell the King Oberon news about these violent twig type looking creatures that have been attacking the ...

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction

1 review
Ellen (Editor), and Windling, Terri (Editor), with Oates, Joyce Carol, and Gaiman, Neil, and Constantine, Storm, et al Datlow

Eos / Harper Collins, 2002

Marvellous! Sexy AND well-written!
Most erotica is rather sloppily written, on the theory that the people who are interested in it are not, in fact, interested in literary value, but in sexual arousal; the authors and editors of this book understand, delightfully, that there are those of us out here who enjoy an arousing story who are sufficiently literate as to be completely distracted from our arousal by poor writing, and they ...

Good Faeries, Bad Faeries: 2 Books in 1

75 reviews
Brian Froud, Terri Windling

Simon & Schuster, 1998

Fairies!
I absolutely LOVE this book, as I have his other two, "Lady Cottinigton's Pressed Fairie Book" and "Good Fairies, Bad Fairies." Froud's fairies seem more real to me than the cutsey fairies you see elsewhere, and I love his stories and descriptions. Had me giggling for hours.

The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors

8 reviews

Tor Books, 1995

Dead-serious fairy tales
I love adult fairy tales, but it seems that all too often, writers pump up the sex and violence to render the tales "adult", rather than more deeply exploring the human emotional dramas in the stories. Maybe that's why I love _The Armless Maiden_. The tales and poems here do include sex and violence, yes, but at their heart is the triumph of the human spirit. If we look carefully at fairy tales, ...

A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale

20 reviews
Terri Windling, Wendy Froud

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Wendy Froud the Master of Faeries
The book refers all to faeries, the story is good but what I was interested on was the art. Wendy Froud created the dolls for the story and since my interest is doll making, this was a great book full of details. She has another book named "The Winter Child" in which she uses the same dolls but there is different story line. If you are interested in books with great pictures, this is the one or ...

Elsewhere

3 reviews
Terri Windling

Ace, 1984

A Definite Keeper!
Out of the hundreds and hundreds of books I have owned, very few books make it to my 'keepers' shelf. Elsewhere is one of the few. It is absolutely one of the best collections of fantasy I have ever read and I reread it over and over again. Particular favorites of mine are Pooka's Bridge by Gillian FitzGerald; The Judgement of St. Yves by Evangeline Walton, Sweetly the Waves Call to Me by Pat ...

Borderland 1 (Signet)

3 reviews
Terri Windling, E. Arnold

Roc, 1986

Great urban fantasy geared towards a teen audience
I'm no longer a teenager, but I still really enjoyed this book, which consists of four novellas. All deal with the Borderland, a place where elves & humans coexist uneasily, where technology & magic are both unreliable, & where lots of down-on-their-luck youths gather to play great music & attempt to live their dreams. Very original, excellently written, & I think that almost everyone will ...

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

12 reviews
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Eos, 2000

Good stuff.
Out of sheer boredom and lack of something better to read, I picked up this book and began reading it (it was on the shelf of a friend of mine . . . dusty and abandoned. I think I felt sorry for it). Honestly, I had my doubts. After having read numerous versions of politically correct fairy tales, I thought this would be along the same vein and completely cliche' and overdone. Surprisingly (and ...

The Coyote Road

3 reviews
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Puffin, 2009

Tricksy
Is it just me, or do short story collections get the short end of the stick these days? With a love of child and YA novels at an all-time high, you'd think that some of that lovin' would slough off onto the other forms of fantasy out there. The shorter forms. Yet ask your average everyday kid to list their favorite collection of short stories and nine times out of then you'll find yourself ...

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Tandem Library))

2 reviews
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Topeka Bindery, 2003

strong anthology
As usual, this annual anthology serves up some of the best work, although this time around, the emphasi is more on orror than fantasy this year. The tales represent a wide panorama of the genres. Most of which are quite strong and a few are tremndous with one particular tale, "The Hunter's Wife," an incredible five star plus treat. Editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling also include their ...

The Raven Queen (Voyage of the Basset, Number 2)

3 reviews
Terri Windling, Ellen Steiber

Topeka Bindery, 1999

Magical, fun, a real treat!
My whole family has become fans of Terri Windling's writing, the kids love the adventures and magic and furry critters and my husband and I love her poetic writing. Ellen Steiber is a real find too and we plan to read more of her work. I highly recommend this book to Harry Potter-loving kids and any adults who like folklore and myth. It's a moving story, with a message at its heart about kids ...

The Wood Wife

41 reviews
Terri Windling

Legend, 1997

Fantasy meets Myth
This is one of my favourite fictional works ever! It is superbly constructed, beautifully written and rattles along at a good pace, holding your interest. It is one of those books that is best appreciated in a single sitting, exploring the theme of the magick in the land, and the spiritual creatures which inhabit it. The interaction of the characters is very strong and well-written, and it ...

Black Swan, White Raven

4 reviews
John Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates, ...

Avon Books, 1997

a brilliant series keeps getting better
The team of Datlow & Windling have put in their 4th collection of adult retellings of classic fairy tales, and this is the best yet. Strong, haunting tales that are truly not the Disney fluff we grew up on are what this collection is made of. Stories are drawn from many different cultures, not just the familiar Brothers' Grimm type; they also end up in many times/places, not just the ...

Life On The Border (Borderlands)

3 reviews

Tor Books, 1991

It Ain't Your Father's Fantasy Rags
I have just finished this book for the third time and I still find it to be as fascinating and engaging as I did when I first read it in Junior High School, and again in High School. I am now 26 and though it may be a bit simple to read at this age, it still makes me feel the same as before. Fantasy readers are romantics at heart and so is this book. Underneath its somewhat common subject ...

Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy

4 reviews

Running Press, 2006

Salon Fantastique wins World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology of 2006
Salon Fantastique won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology of 2006, given out November 4, 2007 at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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