Excellent reinterpretations of classic fantasy and horror stories from some of the best storytellers u

Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt belong to the elite of fantasy and horror writers and writers who am running with high reliability over many showers a day back and a comforting goose bumps formed on his arms. And like most successful authors and writers are initially once very enthusiastic readers have been and so had their respective favorite stories or those that have strongly influenced in any way.

In this collection they have asked various authors, to write a story based on the classic stories that have influenced them in their work. And so Saladin Ahmed, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, Kami Garcia, Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt himself, Garth Nix, Carrie Ryan, Margaret Stohl, Gene Wolfe and Rick Yancey contributed to this collection, while Charles Vess further to six has delivered stories abstracts and illustrations. These stories come from the fantasy corner of horror literature and the field of science fiction or they put the origin story from one genre to another.

The initial stories to this collection of creations are EM Forster's The Machine Stops, Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, Snow White & The Sleeping Beauty, Henry James The Jolly Corner, JSL Fanu Carmilla, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birth-Mark, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto , Kate Chopin's The Awakening, WW Jacobs The Mankeys Paw, Rumpelstiltskin (which suits me the sound of the English version more. Rumpelstiltskin), Sir Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and William S. Seabrroks The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban that here a Catpeople -Einschlag gets.

The new stories of which at least Neil Gaiman was The Sleeper and the Spindle contribution already discussed repeatedly revolve around change of perspective (mostly to the respective monsters of history), relocation of the action in the distant future (eg New Chicago by Kelley Armstrong, the The Monkey; s Paw transferred to a post-apocalyptic America) or in a slightly offbeat present (including Tim Pratt The Cold Corner of The Jolly Corner, Margaret Stohl's Sirocco of The Castle of Otranto, or The Soul Collector of Rumpelstilskin). Immortality, God equality, the end of mankind, the spectrum is large and is by Charles Vess illustrations for The King of Elfland's Daughter, Kai Ling Goldern Hours, Figures of Earth. The Shaving of Shagpat, The Wood Beyond the World and Goblin Market expanded.

There are at any of the stories and the illustrations have a brief explanation of the authors, and the illustrator and the Beuch itself ends with brief biographies of all those involved. A nice and entertaining Hardcover with hoar-section, I can only recommend.