The multi-award-winning anthologists present a story collection of modern interpretations of classic fairy tales.Lonely and withdrawn since her father's death, "The Girl in the Attic" finds love and understanding where she least expects it in Lois Metzger's poignant reimagining of "Rapunzel."A young woman marries her neighbor to save her family from poverty—only to encounter her husband's dark "Chambers of the Heart"—in this tale of "Bluebeard" from Nina Ki...

Award-winning and New York Times –bestselling authors adapt classic fairy tales into their own fantastical visions in this short story collection.Mistreated by her stepfamily, a young woman with a kind heart learns that, when it comes to love, size doesn't matter in Jane Yolen's "Cinder Elephant."Feeling hurt and betrayed by the woman they cared for when she ran off with a prince, "The Seven Stage a Comeback" by e...

Classic fairy tale villains get to share their sides of the story in this collection from the multi-award-winning anthologists.In a bookshop in rural Maine, a good for nothing, unambitious young man finds his calling, in Delia Sherman's "Wizard's Apprentice."A wife's giant confronts a mischievous thief who dares to invade her home in Peter S. Beagle's "Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers."Garth Nix te...

From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Mira Grant, the best horror stories available.For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventeenth volum...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED's Women Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, this month we're presenting a special issue of NIGHTMARE called Women Destroy Horror!: an all-horror extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women.Here's what ...

"Enchanting, witty" fairy tales for adults from Peter Straub, Daniel Quinn, Nancy Kress, Patricia C. Wrede, and other modern-day Grimms and Andersens ( Publishers Weekly ).World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling return with another superb collection of wonders and terrors. In Black Thorn, White Rose, the magical tales we were told at bedtime have been upended, turned inside out, reshape...

The companion volume to the provocative Alien Sex anthology, Off Limits pushes boundaries with twenty stimulating tales of otherworldly encountersThis second volume of the Alien Sex anthology series brings together authors Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hand, and many others to explore the mysteries of sex, alien and human alike. From an alien spy who falls in love with one of the earthlings he's moni...

Lock your doors, hide under your covers, and prepare to be terrified by this bone-chilling anthology of twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters from legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow.**WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!A Shirley Jackson and Locus Award Finalist! A World Fantasy Award Nominee!**In Screams from the Dark, award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw...

A dangerously seductive collection of tales that—like the sirens themselves—are impossible to resistSensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ellen Kushner, and more. Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers features a vampire who falls in love with her human prey, an updated Red Riding Hood fantasy, an unsuspecting y...

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.A Most Anticipated Pick by Library Journal | Polygon | CrimeReads | Screen Rant | Book Riot | GizmodoAimless and looking for direction, Mara lands a job as a production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting, home makeover reality TV show H...

***One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018"***A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a cu...

For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the sixteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, La...