My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
2010 anthology of fantasy stories
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales is an anthology of fantasy stories based on the idea of fairy tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith.[1] The book was published by Penguin Books on September 28, 2010. The anthology itself won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.[2]
Authoredited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy short stories
PublisherPenguin Books
Paperback edition | |
| Author | edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy short stories |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Publication date | September 28, 2010 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 608 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-311784-1 |
| OCLC | 515455953 |
Contents
- Introduction (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales), by Kate Bernheimer
- Drawing the Curtain, by Gregory Maguire
- "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child", by Joy Williams
- "Ardour", by Jonathon Keats
- "I'm Here", by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
- "The Brother and the Bird", by Alissa Nutting
- "Hansel and Gretel", by Francine Prose
- "A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin", by Kevin Brockmeier
- "With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold", by Neil LaBute
- "The Swan Brothers", by Shelley Jackson
- "The Warm Mouth", by Joyelle McSweeney
- "Snow White, Rose Red", by Lydia Millet
- "The Erlking", by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
- "Dapplegrim", by Brian Evenson
- "The Wild Swans", by Michael Cunningham
- "Halfway People", by Karen Joy Fowler
- "Green Air", by Rikki Ducornet
- "The Mermaid in the Tree", by Timothy Schaffert
- "What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body is Gone", by Katherine Vaz
- "The Snow Queen", by Karen Brennan
- "Eyes of Dogs", by Lucy Corin
- "Little Pot", by Ilya Kaminsky
- "A Bucket of Warm Spit", by Michael Martone
- "Catskin", by Kelly Link
- "Teague O'Kane and the Corpse", by Chris Adrian
- "Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay", by Jim Shepard
- "Body-Without-Soul", by Kathryn Davis
- "The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone", by Kellie Wells
- "My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This is What Happened", by Sabrina Orah Mark
- "The Color Master", by Aimee Bender
- "The White Cat", by Marjorie Sandor
- "Blue-Bearded Lover", by Joyce Carol Oates
- "Bluebeard in Ireland", by John Updike
- "A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper", by Rabih Alameddine
- "A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility", by Stacey Richter
- "Orange", by Neil Gaiman
- "Psyche's Dark Night", by Francesca Lia Block
- "The Story of the Mosquito", by Lily Hoang
- "First Day of Snow", by Naoko Awa
- "I Am Anjuhimeko", by Hiromi Ito
- "Coyote Takes Us Home", by Michael Mejia
- "Ever After", by Kim Addonizio
- "Whitework", by Kate Bernheimer
