![]() Beagle's "Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers") to the alarming (Holly Black's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf") to the not-so-villainous (Ellen Kushner's "The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces") to the distressingly creeptastic (Kelly Link's "The Cinderella Game", which closes the collection in a disconcerting way). ![]() ![]() The book is a fabulous collection of retellings, ranging from the humorous (such as Garth Nix's "An Unwelcome Guest" and Peter S. There are a total of 15 stories and poems in the collection, and it took me four days at my exceedingly moderate pace to get through it. Short stories by Holly Black, Garth Nix, Nancy Farmer, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman and more, each of which focuses on a fairy tale "villain"? Sign me up! (Seriously, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling - if you're doing another of these collections, please sign me up! But I digress.) I came home, hard at work on the Jane Project, and put it in my TBR pile, where it stayed until this week, when I fished it out and started reading a few entries at a time. Kellyrfineman When Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, appeared on the new release table last spring (as in 2009), I immediately snatched up a copy. ![]()
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