My mother she killed me, my father he ate me : forty new fairy tales / edited by Kate Bernheimer ; with Carmen Giménez Smith ; foreword by Gregory Maguire.

Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2010.

ISBN: 9780143117841 (pbk.)
014311784X (pbk.)

Description: xxxi, 543 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Fairy tales United States.
Fairy tales Great Britain.
Short stories.

Contents: Drawing the curtain / by Gregory Maguire -- Baba Iaga and the pelican child / Joy Williams -- Ardour / Jonathon Keats -- I'm here / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya -- The brother and the bird / Alissa Nutting -- Hansel and Gretel / Francine Prose -- A day in the life of half of Rumpelstiltskin -- With hair of spun gold / LaBute, Neil -- The Swan brothers / Shelley Jackson -- The warm mouth / McSweeney, Joyelle -- Snow White, Rose Red / Lydia Millet -- The Erlking / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Dapplegrim / Brian Evenson -- The wild swans / Michal Cunningham -- Halfway people / Karen Joy Fowler -- The mermaid / Timothy Schaffert -- What the conch shell sings when the body is gone / Katherine Vaz -- The Snow Queen / Karen Brennan -- Eyes of dogs / Lucy Corin -- t Little pot / ?r Ilya Kaminsky -- ?t A bucket of warm spit / ?r Michael Marone -- Catskin / Kelly Link -- Teague O'Kane and the corpse / Chris Adrian -- Pleasure boating in Lituya Bay / Jim Shepard -- Body-without-soul / Kathryn Davis
The girl, the wolf, the crone / Kellie Wells -- My brother Gary made a movie and this is what happened / Sabrina Orah Mark -- The color master / Aimee Bender -- The white cat / Marjorie Sandor -- Blue-bearded lover / Joyce Carol Oates -- Bluebeard in Ireland / John Updike -- A kiss to wake the sleeper / Rabih Alameddine -- A case study of emergency room procedure and risk management by hospital staff members in the urban facility / Stacey Richter -- Orange / Neil Gaiman -- Psyche's dark night / Francesca Lia Block -- The story of the mosquito / Lily Hoang -- First day of snow / Naoko Awa -- I am Anjuhimeko / Hiromi Itō -- Coyote takes us home / Micha el Mejia -- Ever after / Kim Addonizio -- Whitework / Kate Bernheimer.