Faery Reel

Collection Overview

This wondrous collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Anthology Details

For this enchanting anthology—a World Fantasy Award finalist—editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling asked their contributors to reimagine Fäerie in the present day, or search its more dimly lit pathways, and the authors have responded with bountiful imagination.

Highlights

The title piece is a poem by Neil Gaiman, but most of the others are longer pieces, like shards of stories you want to hear more of.

Jeffrey Ford limns the heartbreaking tale of fairies who live in sandcastles built by young children; Ellen Steiber's Screaming for Fairies sketches the lineaments of desire.

Bruce Glassco finds a different voice for Tinkerbell and Captain Hook in Never Never.

Tanith Lee's Elvenbrood tale is eerie and chilling.

Gregory Maguire, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia A. McKillip, and Emma Bull's stories all enchant and bewitch.

Delia Sherman's CATNYP is both funny and deeply clever, warming the cockles of anyone who has ever had dealings with a research library, especially New York Public's (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Additional Information

This companion volume to The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest is a rewarding choice for those who like the traditional with a twist (Booklist).