Datlow, Ellen (ed) - Fairy Tale Anthologies / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Серия антологий "Волшебные сказки" [2011-2014, EPUB, ENG]

Introduction: White as Snow: Fairy Tales and Fantasy by Terri Windling Introduction: Red as Blood: Fairy Tales and Horror by Ellen Datlow Like a Red, Red Rose by Susan Wade The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep / Луна тонет, пока я сплю by Charles de Lint The Frog Prince by Gahan Wilson Stalking Beans by Nancy Kress Snow-Drop by Tanith Lee Little Red by Wendy Wheeler I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Wood by Kathe Koja The Root of the Matter by Gregory Frost The Princess in the Tower by Elizabeth A. Lynn Persimmon by Harvey Jacobs Little Poucet by Steve Rasnic Tem The Changelings by Melanie Tem The Springfield Swans by Caroline Stevermer and Ryan Edmonds Troll-Bridge / Троллев мост by Neil Gaiman A Sound, Like Angels Singing by Leonard Rysdyk Puss by Esther M. Friesner The Glass Casket by Jack Dann Knives by Jane Yolen The Snow Queen by Patricia A. McKillip Breadcrumbs and Stones by Lisa Goldstein

Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress Stronger Than Time by Patricia C. Wrede Somnus's Fair Maid by Ann Downer The Frog King, or Iron Henry by Daniel Quinn Near-Beauty by M. E. Beckett Ogre by Michael Kandel Can't Catch Me by Michael Cadnum Journeybread Recipe by Lawrence Schimel The Brown Bear of Norway by Isabel Cole The Goose Girl by Tim Wynne-Jones Tattercoats by Midori Snyder Granny Rumple by Jane Yolen The Sawing Boys by Howard Waldrop Godson / Крестник by Roger Zelazny Ashputtle / Золушка by Peter Straub Silver and Gold by Ellen Steiber Sweet Bruising Skin by Storm Constantine The Black Swan by Susan Wade

Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow Ruby Slippers by Susan Wade The Beast / Чудовище by Tanith Lee Masterpiece by Garry Kilworth Summer Wind by Nancy Kress This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea by Farida S. T. Shapiro The Crossing / Железнодорожный переезд by Joyce Carol Oates Roach in Loafers by Roberta Lannes Naked Little Men by Michael Cadnum Brother Bear by Lisa Goldstein The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon by John Brunner Billy Fearless by Nancy A. Collins The Death of Koshchei the Deathless (a tale of old Russia) by Gene Wolfe The Real Princess by Susan Palwick The Huntsman's Story by Milbre Burch After Push Comes to Shove by Milbre Burch Hansel and Grettel by Gahan Wilson Match Girl by Anne Bishop Waking the Prince by Kathe Koja The Fox Wife by Ellen Steiber The White Road / Белая дорога by Neil Gaiman The Traveler and the Tale by Jane Yolen The Printer's Daughter by Delia Sherman

Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow The Flounder's Kiss by Michael Cadnum The Black Fairy's Curse by Karen Joy Fowler Snow in Dirt by Michael Blumlein Riding the Red by Nalo Hopkinson No Bigger Than My Thumb by Esther M. Friesner In the Insomniac Night by Joyce Carol Oates The Little Match Girl by Steve Rasnic Tem The Trial of Hansel and Gretel by Garry Kilworth Rapunzel by Anne Bishop Sparks by Gregory Frost The Dog Rose by Sten Westgard The Reverend's Wife by Midori Snyder The Orphan the Moth and the Magic by Harvey Jacobs Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs by Don Webb True Thomas / Честный Томас by Bruce Glassco The True Story by Pat Murphy Lost and Abandoned by John Crowley The Breadcrumb Trail by Nina Kiriki Hoffman On Lickerish Hill / На Гиблом холме by Susanna Clarke Steadfast by Nancy Kress Godmother Death by Jane Yolen

Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow Kiss Kiss by Tanith Lee Carabosse by Delia Sherman The Price by Patricia Briggs Glass Coffin by Caitlin R. Kiernan The Vanishing Virgin by Harvey Jacobs Clad in Gossamer by Nancy Kress Precious by Nalo Hopkinson The Sea Hag by Melissa Lee Shaw The Frog Chauffeur by Garry Kilworth The Dybbuk in the Bottle / Диббук в бутылке by Russell W. Asplund The Shell Box by Karawynn Long Ivory Bones by Susan Wade The Wild Heart by Anne Bishop You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child to Break Your Heart and Mine by Pat York Arabian Phoenix by India Edghill Toad-Rich / Обильная жабами by Michael Cadnum Skin So Green and Fine by Wendy Wheeler The Willful Child, the Black Dog, and the Beanstalk by Melanie Tem Locks / Замки by Neil Gaiman Marsh-Magic by Robin McKinley Toad by Patricia A. McKillip

Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow Rapunzel by Tanith Lee The Crone by Delia Sherman Big Hair by Esther M. Friesner The King with Three Daughters by Russell Blackford Boys and Girls Together by Neil Gaiman And Still She Sleeps by Greg Costikyan Snow in Summer by Jane Yolen Briar Rose by Debra Cash Witch by Debra Cash Chanterelle by Brian Stableford Bear It Away by Michael Cadnum Goldilocks Tells All by Scott Bradfield My Life as a Bird / «Моя жизнь, как птица» by Charles de Lint The Red Boots by Leah Cutter Rosie's Dance by Emma Hardesty You, Little Match-Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Dreaming Among Men by Bryn Kanar The Cats of San Martino by Ellen Steiber The Golem by Severna Park Our Mortal Span by Howard Waldrop Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower / Мистер Симонелли, или Эльф-вдовец by Susanna Clarke

 

They stood together without touching, watching the snow fall. The sudden storm prolonging winter had surprised the city; little moved in the broad streets below them. Ancient filigreed lamps left from another century threw patterned wheels of light into the darkness, illuminating the deep white silence crusting the world. Gerda, not hearing the silence, spoke. “They look like white rose petals endlessly falling.” Kay said nothing. He glanced at his watch, then at the mirror across the room. The torchieres gilded them: a lovely couple, the mirror said. In the gentle light Gerda’s sunny hair looked like polished bronze; his own, shades paler, seemed almost white. Some trick of shadow flattened Gerda’s face, erased its familiar hollows. Her petalfilled eyes were summer blues. His own face, with sharp bones at cheek and jaw, dark eyes beneath pale brows, looked, he thought, wild and austere: a monk’s face, a wizard’s face. He searched for some subtlety in Gerda’s, but it would not yield to shadow. She wore a short black dress; on her it seemed incongruous, like a black flower. He commented finally, “Every time you speak, flowers fall from your mouth.” . . .

Not for the first time, a son knew himself to be older than his father. Urlenn was thinking about this, their disparate maturities, as he rode down through the forests. It was May-Month, and the trees were drenched in fresh young green. If he had been coming from anywhere but a war, he might have felt instinctively alert, and anticipatory; happy, nearly. But killing others was not a favorite pastime. Also, the two slices he had got in return were still raw, probably inflamed. He was mostly disgusted. It was the prospect of going home. The castle, despite its luxuries, did not appeal. For there would be his father (a king), the two elder sons, and all the noble cronies. They would sit Urlenn up past midnight, less to hear of his exploits than to go over their own or their ancestors’: the capture of a fabulous city, a hundred men dispatched by ten, the wonderful prophecy of some ancient crone, even, once, a dragon. There may have been dragons centuries ago, Urlenn judiciously concluded, but if so, they were thin on the ground by now. One more horror, besides, was there in the castle. His betrothed, the inescapable Princess Madzia. The king had chosen Madzia for Urlenn not for her fine blood, but because her grandmother had been (so they said) a fairy. Madzia had thick black hair to her waist, and threw thick black tempers. After the battle, Urlenn let his men off at the first friendly town. The deserved a junket, and their captains would look out for them. He was going home this way. This long way home. With luck, he might make it last a week. . . .