A monumental career retrospective

"This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The [poems and stories] span the length of Goss's career ... All approach well-known stories from unexpected angles and with deep empathy for the characters ... The abundance of pieces sometimes has the effect of a musical fugue: common motifs, places, and characters echo through the works, with each reappearance adding something fresh."

"For Goss, fairy tales are less a set of texts than a language she's become fluent in ... the result is a lyrical, resonant voice and a vision not quite like anyone else's."

PRAISE FOR THEODORA GOSS

"In the tradition of great modern fantasists like Angela Carter and Marina Warner, Theodora Goss's sublime tales are modern classics-beautiful, sly, sensual and deeply moving . . . I envy any reader encountering Goss's work for the first time."

-Elizabeth Hand

"Goss's language fits together like gems in a complex crown, a diadem of images and motifs, resting gently on the head, but with a deceptive weight."

-Catherynne M. Valente

"Theodora Goss re-fleshes and re-clothes old tales in multifarious ways. Through prose and poetry, Goss shines her unique light into the fairytale forest-and many bright eyes gleam back."

-Margo Lanagan

With cover art by Catrin Welz-Stein and interior black and white illustrations by Paula Arwen Owen.