About this ebook
In a bookshop in rural Maine, a good for nothing, unambitious young man finds his calling, in Delia Sherman's "Wizard's Apprentice."
A wife's giant confronts a mischievous thief who dares to invade her home in Peter S. Beagle's "Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers."
Garth Nix tells the tale of a runaway girl with extremely long hair who becomes "An Unwelcome Guest" for a witch and her familiar.
A newlywed bride moves into "Castle Othello" and uncovers the Moorish Prince's shocking secret in Nancy Farmer's "Bluebeard"-inspired story.
Sugar and spice—but not everything nice—are the ingredients that make up one of fairy tale's most infamous baddies in Catherynne M. Valente's "A Delicate Architecture."
These monstrous and misunderstood antagonists—and ten more—reveal their motives in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, featuring award-winning and New York Times–bestselling authors.
Other contributors include:
Holly Black * Michael Cadnum * Wendy Froud * Neil Gaiman * Nina Kiriki Hoffman * Ellen Kushner * Kelly Link * Midori Snyder * Joseph Stanton * Jane Yolen
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About the author
Ellen Datlow was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award- winning fiction area of scifi.com, for almost six years. Previously, she was fiction editor of Omni for over seventeen years. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Award, and the 2005 Locus Award, for her work as an editor. Sci Fiction won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Website. Datlow and Windling are the co-editors of over eleven original anthologies and of seventeen volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Terri Windling is an editor, writer, painter, and passionate advocate of mythic arts. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, as well as the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. During the last two decades she's edited over twenty-five anthologies with Ellen Datlow, as well as several other anthologies, including one called Faery. Her paintings, which are based on folklore and feminist themes, have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States, England, and France.
