Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Hair bright as gold.… Lips red as blood.… Heart black as sin.… Truth sharp as bone.…

As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood—the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew.

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