Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
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Overview
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year
An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors including Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked.
"Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period.
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic.
Includes short stories by Delia Sherman, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Valentine, Maureen McHugh, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Wein, Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock, Kaaron Warren, Leanna Renee Hieber, Dale Bailey, Veronica Schanoes, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer, Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Theodora Goss.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781429960915 |
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Publisher: | Tor Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 03/19/2013 |
Sold by: | Macmillan |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 352 |
Sales rank: | 568,140 |
File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
Multiple award-winning editor ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI magazine and SciFiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies. She lives in New York City.
TERRI WINDLING is a writer, artist, and book editor interested in myth, folklore, and fairy tales. She lives in a little village at the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England.
ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep, Echoes, Final Cuts, Body Shocks, and When Things Get Dark.
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar.
Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. She has won six World Fantasy awards for her editorial work and the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. She has edited over thirty anthologies, many in collaboration with Ellen Datlow--including the Snow White, Blood Red adult fairy-tale series, The Armless Maiden, Sirens, The Green Man, and Swan Sister. She has also written children's books and articles on myth and folklore, and she edits the Endicott Studio Online Journal of Mythic Arts website. She divides her time between homes in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.
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QUEEN VICTORIA’S BOOK OF SPELLS
Table of Contents
Preface Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling 000
Introduction: Fantasy, Magic, and
Fairyland in Nineteenth-Century England Terri Windling 000
“Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells” Delia Sherman 000
“The Fairy Enterprise” Jeffrey Ford 000
“From the Catalogue of the Pavilion
of the Uncanny and Marvelous,
Scheduled for Premiere at the
Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)” Genevieve Valentine 000
“The Memory Book” Maureen McHugh 000
“La Reine d’Enfer” Kathe Koja 000
“For the Briar Rose” Elizabeth Wein 000
“The Governess” Elizabeth Bear 000
“Smithfield” James P. Blaylock 000
“The Unwanted Women of Surrey” Kaaron Warren 000
“Charged” Leanna Renee Hieber 000
“Mr. Splitfoot” Dale Bailey 000
“Phosphorus” Veronica Schanoes 000
“We Without Us Were Shadows” Catherynne M. Valente 000
“The Vital Importance of the Superficial” Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer 000
“The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” Jane Yolen 000
“A Few Twigs He Left Behind” Gregory Maguire 000
“Their Monstrous Minds” Tanith Lee 000
“Estella Saves the Village” Theodora Goss 000
About the Authors 000
Recommended Reading 000
Copyright © 2013 by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Table of Contents
Preface; by Ellen Datlow and Terri WindlingIntroduction: Fantasy, Magic, and Fairyland in Nineteenth-Century England; by Terri Windling
Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells; by Delia Sherman
The Fairy Enterprise; by Jeffrey Ford
From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premier at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire); by Genevieve Valentine
The Memory Book; by Maureen McHugh
La Reine D’Enfer; by Kathe Koja
For the Briar Rose; by Elizabeth Wein
The Governess; by Elizabeth Bear
Smithfield; by James P. Blaylock
The Unwanted Women of Surrey; by Kaaron Warren
Charged; by Leanna Renee Hieber
Mr. Splitfoot; by Dale Bailey
Phosphorus; by Veronica Schanoes
We Without Us Were Shadows; by Catherynne M. Valente
The Vital Importance of the Superficial; by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer
The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown; by Jane Yolen
A Few Twigs He Left Behind; Gregory Maguire
Their Monstrous Minds; Tanith Lee
Estella Saves the Village; Theodora Goss