Category Archives: short stories

Ghastly Ever After: Twisted Myths for teens and up

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 by

At our final stop on this frightful journey through Faerie Land, the bloody-footed mermaid at the door gives us three collections of terrifying tales rated Teen-and-up.  These are tales of blood-thirsty gods, angels of death, and demonic Cinderellas.  Tales of … Continue reading →

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An ode to the Meet Cute: a short story month post

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

May is Short Story Month, so a few weeks ago, I checked my library catalog for recent(ish) Juv/YA short story collections and discovered these two:                          One is a … Continue reading →

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Screaming for Fairies: a conflicted story review

Posted on Jan 23, 2018 by

It’s been a month of raising the dead, hasn’t it?  I’ve been resurrecting my old Insatiable Booksluts posts, and now I’ve decided to delete my LiveJournal account.  Apparently, they’ve been bought by a Russian company and now require users to … Continue reading →

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Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London

Posted on Jan 13, 2018 by

Here’s another post from my time at Insatiable Booksluts.  In this one, I reviewed Marshland, a collection of trippy, meta, even mythic stories and essays about the East London wilderness, a haunting world of demons and zombies and bear men and … Continue reading →

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Ghastly stories for the biggest scare-seekers

Posted on Oct 19, 2017 by

Do you keep a night light on on Halloween, just in case?  Do thoughts of the undead keep you unrested?  Or are you all about the vampire bats and the plague-haunted castles and the vengeful murder victims come back to … Continue reading →

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“Don’t you love the cold forest? Doesn’t the howl of the wolf thrill you through with fearful delight?”

Posted on Mar 2, 2017 by

I found this awesome reading list on an online syllabus for “Fairy Tales Then and Now,” a course at Rutgers.  The first two units focus on versions of Little Red Riding Hood and disobedience tales like Bluebeard, in versions from Charles … Continue reading →

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Poisoned apples, twisted tales, and mer-lore

Posted on Mar 18, 2016 by

  Yep, it’s time for more re-worked fairy tale collections, including another Windling/Datlow book!  Hey, I’ll keep reviewing them as long as I keep finding ’em 🙂 Christine Heppermann. Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2014. This … Continue reading →

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More Datlow/Windling anthologies

Posted on Jan 6, 2016 by

First, my favorite tales from two young adult anthologies: The Green Man – a collection focused on the mythical spirit(s) of the forest – and The Coyote Road – a collection of trickster tales. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. … Continue reading →

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2015 Favorites

Posted on Dec 21, 2015 by

It’s time once again for the year-end review!  Since I’ve been reading a lot of short stories this year, I’ve given them their own section. Favorite Books –  Click each cover to see my review.                       Select Favorite … Continue reading →

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Fairy tale anthologies by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Posted on Nov 25, 2015 by

I’ve been reading a lot of short stories lately, haven’t I? Most recently, I’ve been going through the anthologies of re-imagined folk and fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. These are my favorite stories: Ellen Datlow and Terri … Continue reading →

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