Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional anew treasures--as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft-told tales.As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. Black Heart, Ivory Bones showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child-that-was and the adult-that-is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Contents:
• Rapunzel by Tanith Lee
• The Crone by Delia Sherman
• Big Hair by Esther 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 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 by Susanna Clarke