Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
Author	Tanith Lee
Illustrator	Tanith Lee
Cover artist	Michael Whelan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	DAW Books
Publication date	1983
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	208 pp
ISBN	0-87997-790-6
OCLC	9146663
LC Class	CPB Box no. 2744 vol. 23

Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer is a short story collection of dark fantasy retellings of popular fairytales by British author Tanith Lee. Contrary to what the title may suggest, it not only includes retellings of fairytales by the Brothers Grimm, but also by Charles Perrault, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve or Alexander Afanasyev. The title story was nominated for a Nebula Award.

Contents[]

Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer contains the following tales:

"Paid Piper" – Asia: 1st century BC (retelling of "Pied Piper of Hamelin")
"Red as Blood" – Europe: 14th century (retelling of "Snow White")
"Thorns" – Eurasia: 15th century (retelling of Sleeping Beauty)
"When The Clock Strikes" – Europe: 16th century (retelling of "Cinderella")
"The Golden Rope" – Europe: 17th century (retelling of Rapunzel)
"The Princess And Her Future" – Asia: 18th century (retelling of "The Frog Prince")
"Wolfland" – Scandinavia: 19th century (retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood")
"Black As Ink" – Scandinavia: 20th century (retelling of Swan Lake)
"Beauty" – Earth: The future (retelling of Beauty and the Beast)

In 2014, the book was released as an expanded edition including a new story, "The Waters of Sorrow", which had been previously published in 2011 in Weird Tales.

Reception[]

Dave Langford reviewed Red as Blood for White Dwarf No. 48, and stated that "Fun: but these inversions can become repetitious, while Lee's SF 'Beauty and the Beast' founders in a morass of soggy pseudoscience."^[1]

References[]

^ Langford, Dave (December 1983). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 48. Games Workshop. p. 12.

Nickerson, Susan L. "Red as Blood (Book)." Library Journal 108.2 (Jan 15, 1983): 147.

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[WD48-1] Langford, Dave (December 1983). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 48. Games Workshop. p. 12.

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v t Works by Tanith Lee
Birthgrave series	The Birthgrave (1975)
Four-BEE series	Don't Bite the Sun (1975)
Tales From The Flat Earth	Night's Master (1978) Death's Master (1979) Delusion's Master (1981) Delirium's Mistress (1986) Night's Sorceries (1986)
S.I.L.V.E.R. series	The Silver Metal Lover (1981) Metallic Love (2005)
Secret Books of Paradys	The Book of the Damned (1988)
Unicorn series	Black Unicorn (1991) Gold Unicorn (1994) Red Unicorn (1997)
Blood Opera series	Dark Dance (1992) Personal Darkness (1993) Darkness, I (1994)
Secret Books of Venus	Venus Preserved (2003)
Claidi Journals	Law of the Wolf Tower (1998) Wolf Star Rise (2000) Queen of the Wolves (2001) Wolf Wing (2002)
Lionwolf series	The Lionwolf Series (2004-2007)
Piratica series	Piratica (2004) Piratica II (2006) Piratica III (2007)
Stand-alone novels	Electric Forest (1979) The Gods Are Thirsty (1996)
Collections	Red as Blood (1983) Dreams of Dark and Lght (1986) Women as Demons (1989) Nightshades (1993) Tempting the Gods (2009) Hunting the Shadows (2009) The Empress of Dreams (2021)
Short fiction	The Thaw (1979) Madame Two Swords (1988)