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 tells the tale of a runaway girl with extremely long hair who becomes "An Unwelcome Guest" for a witch and her familiar.
A newlywed bride moves into "Castle Othello" and uncovers the Moorish Prince's shocking secret in Nancy Farmer's "Bluebeard"-inspired story.
Sugar and spice-but not everything nice-are the ingredients that make up one of fairy tale's most infamous baddies in Catherynne M. Valente's "A Delicate Architecture."
These monstrous and misunderstood antagonists-and ten more-reveal their motives in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's
Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, featuring award-winning and
New York Times-bestselling authors.
Other contributors include:
Holly Black * Michael Cadnum * Wendy Froud * Neil Gaiman * Nina Kiriki Hoffman * Ellen Kushner * Kelly Link * Midori Snyder * Joseph Stanton * Jane Yolen
