Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
Author | Tanith Lee |
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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.
- 1983 short story collections
- Books with cover art by Michael Whelan
- DAW Books books
- Fantasy short story collections
- Literature based on fairy tales
- Short story collections by Tanith Lee
- Single-writer horror short story collections
- Fantasy short story stubs
- 1980s short story stubs
- Horror short story stubs