Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome

British Fantasy Award nominee 2014.

Edited by Stephen Jones. Illustarated by Alan Lee.

The tales of the Brothers Grimm, including such classic tales as Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin, have been translated into upwards of a hundred different languages, and are known and loved throughout the world.

Now award-winning editor Stephen Jones has tasked some of the brightest and best horror writers in Britain, America and Europe with reinterpreting some of the traditional Hausmärchen, putting a decidedly darker spin on the old stories.

Likely to include such notable authors as:

Ramsey Campbell
Peter Crowther
Christopher Fowler
Neil Gaiman
Joanne Harris
Markus Heitz
Brian Hodge
Tanith Lee
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Brian Lumley
Garth Nix
Reggie Oliver
Robert Shearman
Angela Slatter
Michael Marshall Smith

Contents:

• “Introduction: Don’t Scare the children” by Stephen Jones
• “The Wilful Child”
• “Find My Name” by Ramsey Campbell
• “The Singing Bone”
• “Down to a Sunless Sea” by Neil Gaiman
• “Rapunzel”
• “Open Your Window, Golden Hair” by Tanith Lee
• “The Hare’s Bride”
• “Crossing the Line” by Garth Nix
• “Hansel and Gretel”
• “Peckish” by Robert Shearman
• “The Three Little Men in the Wood”
• “Look Inside” by Michael Marshall Smith
• “The Story of a Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”
• “Fräulein Fearnot” by Markus Heitz
• “Cinderella”
• “The Ash-Boy” by Christopher Fowler
• “The Elves #1”
• “The Changeling” by Brian Lumley
• “The Nixie of the Mill-Pond”
• “The Silken Drum” by Reggie Oliver
• “The Robber Bridegroom”
• “By the Weeping Gate” by Angela Slatter
• “Fräu Trude”
• “Anything to Me is Sweeter, Than to Cross Shock-Headed Peter” by Brian Hodge
• “The Elves #2”
• “The Artemis Line” by Peter Crowther
• “The Old Woman in the Wood”
• “The Silken People” by Joanne Harris
• “Rumpelstiltskin”
• “Come Unto Me” by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• “The Shroud”