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Redder Than Bloodis the follow-up to Tanith Lee's World Fantasy Award-nominated collectionRed As Blood, and includes three brand-new stories, all featuring twisted retellings of Grimm's fairy tales.
Redder Than Bloodfeatures three brand-new and sixteen previously published stories that irreverently reshape popular fairy tales, including Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Swan Lake, Beauty and the Beast, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Snow White, and more. Don't miss this newest volume of stories encompassing twenty-five years of a master fantasist's remarkable career."
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A vampiric Snow White whose pious stepmother is her only salvation....
A supernatural Cinderella who strikes at midnight, leaving behind a prince mad with desire....
A sleeping beauty never meant to be woken...
In her World Fantasy Award-nominated short story collection, Red as Blood, Tanith Lee deconstructed familiar fairy tales, recapturing their original darkness and horror in haunting new interpretations. Behind gilded words and poised princesses, she exposed a sinister world of violence, madness, and dangerous enchantments.
With Redder than Blood, Lee resumes the tradition of twisting tales. Among its nineteen tales, this volume explores unnerving variations of Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, Snow White, and other classics, including three never-before-published stories.
A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror.