A stellar assembly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yearns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled and terrified us in our early youth--carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by tweny-one superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world's best-known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind "happily ever after."

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Contents:
• 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 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 by Susanna Clarke
• Steadfast by Nancy Kress
• Godmother Death by Jane Yolen