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    Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition
    Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition
    Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition
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    Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition

    By Tanith Lee

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    What if Snow White were the real villain and the "wicked queen" just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening Sleeping Beauty would be the mistake of a lifetime -- of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities?  Only Tanith Lee -- "Goddess-Empress of the Hot Read" (Village Voice) could retell the world-famous tales of the Brothers Grimm (and others) as they might have been told by the Sisters Grimmer! This special edition, put together for the 30th anniversary of the original edition, adds a new Grimmer fairy tale written especially for this volume!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateSep 22, 2014
    ISBN9781479403745
    Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition
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    Tanith Lee

    Tanith Lee (1947–2015) was a legend in science fiction and fantasy writing. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards, a British Fantasy Society Derleth Award, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror.

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    • 4/5
      These are lovely other-worldly fairy tales that give fresh twists to tales already long known. The tones are quiet enough, and the atmospheres generally similar enough, that I wouldn't recommend reading all of these stories straight through. I'd enjoy them most when I read one occasionally, having been away from the book for a while. This would be a five star collection for me, except that at times I wanted a bit more suspense to pull me along, whereas generally these are more like relaxing bedtime stories for adults (NOT for children, for the most part). Regardless, I'd recommend it to fans of re-imagined fairy tales and legends, or for fans of fantasy-based short stories.
    • 5/5
      Retellings of classic fairytales. Lots of inversions of good and evil, twisted religious/mythological allegories, poetic imagery, and deliciously ambiguous gorgeousness. A re-read for me.
    • 5/5
      I'm so in love with Lee's writing, there were numerous phrases that I paused at, savouring. And darkly retold fairy tales are something that I always love, I've had this on my to-read list for years. Glad that I finally got to it, I loved it. Especially the ones that didn't have a happy ending. :)
    • 5/5
      The first Tanith Lee I read, this collection of retold fairytales sparked in me a love for the story turned on its head, the tale told from a different point of view, or the reinterpretation of the familiar. It's also fun, in that way real, gruesome, bloody folk tales are fun.
    • 2/5
      Godliness is next to more Godliness, apparently. This collection of fairy tale re-imaginings could have been good--a lot of her ideas are excellent and I'd love to see them in the hands of a better writer--but I only got through about half the stories in this collection. And of those six or so, five were varying degrees of allegory, usually of the "wicked person worships SATAN and GOD won't save you then." A little too much in the Christian tradition for me, particularly when the stories were set in distinctly non-Christian eras/places. Any more ham-handed and it would need mittens of bread and mustard.
    • 5/5
      I had to hunt this one down after the Cinderella story was included in a college anthology of Children's Lit. The stories are so rich and vivid you can practically taste them. Lee's version of 'The Frog Prince' is particularly remarkable and a little terrifying at the end. Well worse the hassle it took me to get my hands on a copy.
    • 5/5
      Tanith Lee turns these tales around- the heroines are often the bad guys and though the elements of the tale stay the same, the message is often completely different. The tales are often completely different sometimes in ways I didn't like. My favorite of the tales was "Beauty," a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" the futuristic setting was the perfect landscape for the tale's surprise- this tale gets the essence of Lee's most fantastic work.
    • 3/5
      Some of the stories are good and a few didn't keep my interest. I loved Wolflans the best.
    • 4/5
      LMAO, I really liked all of these.

      It should probably be renamed "Princesses Behaving Badly by Dabbling in the Dark Arts and Worshiping Satan".

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