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The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts", which first appeared in 2004 in The Rose and Twelve Petals and Other Stories, released by Small Beer Press.

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ISBN-13:	9781907881183
Publisher:	Mythic Delirium Books
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	761,944
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d)

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Mind Meld: Exploring Fairy Tales with The Starlit Wood Storytellers

We asked the editors and authors of the recently released anthology The Starlit Wood from Saga Press to chat about fairy tales and their influence on modern-day storytelling. Editors Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien tackled the following question: There can often be a societal expectation that adults will outgrow fairy tales. How do you hope collections […]

Goss's collection of 16 gothic stories possesses a spare, surprising beauty, though her modern-day characters, like those in fairy tales, are constrained by the hard lessons she sets out to teach. The three linked stories, "Miss Emily Gray," "Conrad" and "Lessons with Miss Gray," turn on the character of the title, a dark Mary Poppins-like woman who exists to grant children their hearts' desires-often at a high price. Goss layers the Victorian tone and everyday magic of these tales with commentary on familial negotiations and the grave consequences for heedless behavior. Other stories consider family cohesion and snobbery, as in "Sleeping with Bears," about a Southern belle who exhibits "no originality" until she marries a bear named Trout Catcher. Her sister quickly comes to understand the attraction. In "Lily, with Clouds," a bohemian woman dying of cancer returns to her blue-blooded family in Virginia, where her conventional sister can't help judging her unusual life. Though Goss (The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories) crafts these delicate stories with tight control and wit, in toto they become something of a moral sledgehammer. (Aug.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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A young princess willingly meets her fate in "The Rose in Twelve Petals," while in "Conrad," a young man realizes his family is not what he thinks it is. The 17 tales in this collection (some original to this volume) by World Fantasy Award nominee Goss center on the mixture of the magical and the mundane, the world of today and the world of fairy tales. Gracefully written and elegantly styled, these stories are recommended for most fantasy collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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