Twisted Fairy Tales

by Shannon Connor Winward, Alison Littlewood, Jaidis Shaw

Fairy Tales are a part of everyone's life-from childhood sitting in bed while mom reads to the days when you become the parent reading to your children. These are NOT your average Fairy Tales, these are for grown-ups. These nineteen stories take you behind the scenes of classics and show you the other side. Stories included by: Jocelyn Adams, Shannon Connor Winward, Michael Andre-Driussi, Rachel Ayers, Shiloh Carroll, Tony Peak, L.M. Magalas, Lawrence Vernon, Heather Whittington, Ashley Hendricks, Sylvia Hiven, P.L. Dugand, Arthur Bangs, Sally Anne Croft, William Knight, Sarah Penny-Flynn, Jadis Shaw, Alison J. Littlewood, and Justin A. Williams.

Genres: Fairy Tales, Anthologies

300 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2011

About the author

Shannon Connor Winward is an American author of literary and speculative fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared widely in such venues as Pedestal Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Strange Horizons, Illumen, Ideomancer, Silver Blade Magazine, NewMyths.com, Star*Line, Hip Mama and PANK, as well as in genre anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Shannon recently earned Honorable Mention as an emerging artist by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Shannon is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a Rhysling Award nominee. She lives and writes in Newark, Delaware. For a full list of publications, or to read her accounts of writing, witchery, mommyhood and general sassiness, visit her website: www.ShannonConnorWinward.com

Reviews

[Shanda Kinkade · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed many of the short stories contained in this book. They were all twists on what we've come to recognize as classic fairy tales. My personal favorites were "The Tower" by Jaidis Shaw, "Hope and Appleseeds" by Jocelyn Adams, "Souls of the Ocean" by Rachel Ayers, and "Gretal" by Ashley Hendricks.

If you like fairy tales, especially those with a twist or those that are completely twisted, check out this book. Very worth the read.

[Shannon Winward · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been pouring through the Twisted Fairy Tales: Volume Two anthology, which came into being through the hard work and fierce determination of my darling Isabelle Rose. My favorites so far are "Pru and the Gunslinger", by L.M. Magalas (a Wild West retelling of Rumpelstiltskin), "Gretel", by Ashley Hendricks (haunting, aching, beautiful prose) "Soul of the Ocean", by Rachel Ayers (mystic, compelling, perfectly-crafted - forget Disney's Little Mermaid), and "Plain Sister Pretty" by Heather Whittington (the Dancing Princesses gender-bended and transplanted into feudal Japan).

(12/5/11)

[Vanessa Ricci-Thode · Rating 3 out of 5]

The individual stories themselves are all good, some better than others, but none of them terrible. However, I didn't think there was a wide enough variety between tales in this anthology. Hansel and Gretal, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White made too many appearances, often not different enough from each other or their original tales for my liking. Still some of them were fascinating and ingenious and overall this anthology was a good read.