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Cursed

by Marie O'Regan
Paul Kane
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Twenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, Christina Henry, M.R. Carey, and Charlie Jane Anders.

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It's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, a wedding ring, or a pair of red shoes. Curses come in all shapes and sizes, and they can happen to anyone, not just those of us with unpopular stepparents ...

Here you'll find unique twists on curses, from fairy tale classics to brand-new hexes of the modern world—expect new monsters and mythologies as well as twists on well-loved fables. Stories to shock and stories of warning, stories of monsters and stories of magic.

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  • Release date

    July 7, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781094180281
      • File size: 277701 KB
      • Duration: 09:38:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An ensemble of eight narrators returns listeners to scenes of childhood--and the feeling of awe children experience when listening to a new fairy tale. Twenty authors, including Neil Gaiman and M.R. Carey, contribute to this anthology designed to amuse, instruct, and (yes) terrify listeners. The audiobook offers listeners modern tales told from the perspectives of the cursed. Each narrator lures listeners with the soothing rhythms of a bedtime story, only to surprise them with a sudden bite of malice--just as the plot takes a detour off the highway of happy endings. Only "Hated" by Christopher Fowler veers off track with highly inappropriate choices in narration. CURSED is not appropriate for children, but welcome for children at heart--especially those who occasionally harbor sympathies for the wicked witch. G.P. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 9, 2019
      O’Regan and Kane, who previously collaborated as editors on Wonderland, an anthology of stories inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, bring together 18 new and reimagined fairy tales in this spellbinding anthology, bookended by poems from Jane Yolen. Karen Joy Fowler’s “The Black Fairy’s Curse” is a dreamy, disorienting rendition of “Sleeping Beauty”; Neil Gaiman’s lovely, tragic “Troll Bridge” draws from “Three Billy Goats Gruff”; and Angela Slatter’s standout “New Wine” is a truly chilling modernization of “Bluebeard.” While most of these stories transpose fairy tale elements into contemporary England, Lilith Saintcrow conjures a fully realized fantasy world with “Hanza and Ghana.” The anthology’s original stories also draw from folklore, as with the screaming skulls of Maura McHugh’s “Faith and Fred” and the beguiling but dangerous fae folk of Catriona Ward’s “At That Age.” These stories are by turns eerie, grotesque, and delightful, ranging in tone from the broadly humorous fantasy of Charlie Jane Anders’s “Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie” to the visceral body horror of James Brogden’s “Skin.” Readers won’t have to be Brothers Grimm fans to appreciate this dark mélange.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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