Series
Fairy Tale Anthologies
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling & Ellen Steiber · 1 novella · 6 anthologies · 1993–2000
Fairy Tale Anthologies gathers Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's series of adult short-fiction anthologies retelling classic fairy tales, beginning with Snow White, Blood Red (1993) and continuing through Black Thorn, White Rose, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears and further volumes. Each book commissions new stories from a rotating set of authors reworking familiar tales, often into darker, more adult territory than their source material. The volumes are linked by editorial concept and theme rather than a continuing plot or cast.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Fairy Tale Anthologies at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Black Swan, White Ravendarkest · calmest
- The Fox Wifebrightest
- Ruby Slippers, Golden Tearsmost intense