Rags & bones: new twists on timeless tales

Introduction / by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt --

That the machine may progress eternally / by Carrie Ryan, inspired by E.M. Forster's The machine stops --

The King of Elfland's daughter / by Charles Vess --

Losing her divinity / by Garth Nix, inspired by The man who would be king --

The sleeper and the spindle / by Neil Gaiman, inspired by Sleeping Beauty --

Kai Lung's golden hours / by Charles Vess --

The cold corner / by Tim Pratt, inspired by Henry James' The jolly corner --

Millcara / by Holly Black, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla --

Figures of earth / by Charles Vess --

When first we were gods / by Rick Yancey, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The birthmark --

Sirocco / by Margaret Stohl, inspired by Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto --

The shaving of Shagpat / by Charles Vess --

Awakened / by Melissa Marr, inspired by Kate Chopin's The awakening --

New Chicago / by Kelley Armstrong, inspired by W.W. Jacob's The monkey's paw --

The wood beyond the world / by Charles Vess --

The soul collector / by Kami Garcia, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin --

Without faith, without law, without joy / by Saladin Ahmed, inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene --

Goblin market / by Charles Vess --

Uncaged / by Gene Wolf, inspired by William Seabrook's The caged white werewolf.