My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Explained

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
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Author:	edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Fantasy short stories
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Release Date:	September 28, 2010
Media Type:	Print (hardback)
Pages:	608 pp
Isbn:	978-0-14-311784-1
Oclc:	515455953

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales is an anthology of fantasy stories based on the idea of fairy tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith.^[1] The book was published by Penguin Books on September 28, 2010. The anthology itself won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.^[2]

Contents

• Introduction (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales), by Kate Bernheimer
• Drawing the Curtain, by Gregory Maguire
• "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child", by Joy Williams
• "Ardour", by Jonathon Keats
• "I'm Here", by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
• "The Brother and the Bird", by Alissa Nutting
• "Hansel and Gretel", by Francine Prose
• "A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin", by Kevin Brockmeier
• "With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold", by Neil LaBute
• "The Swan Brothers", by Shelley Jackson
• "The Warm Mouth", by Joyelle McSweeney
• "Snow White, Rose Red", by Lydia Millet
• "The Erlking", by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• "Dapplegrim", by Brian Evenson
• "The Wild Swans", by Michael Cunningham
• "Halfway People", by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Green Air", by Rikki Ducornet
• "The Mermaid in the Tree", by Timothy Schaffert
• "What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body is Gone", by Katherine Vaz
• "The Snow Queen", by Karen Brennan
• "Eyes of Dogs", by Lucy Corin
• "Little Pot", by Ilya Kaminsky
• "A Bucket of Warm Spit", by Michael Martone
• "Catskin", by Kelly Link
• "Teague O'Kane and the Corpse", by Chris Adrian
• "Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay", by Jim Shepard
• "Body-Without-Soul", by Kathryn Davis
• "The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone", by Kellie Wells
• "My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This is What Happened", by Sabrina Orah Mark
• "The Color Master", by Aimee Bender
• "The White Cat", by Marjorie Sandor
• "Blue-Bearded Lover", by Joyce Carol Oates
• "Bluebeard in Ireland", by John Updike
• "A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper", by Rabih Alameddine
• "A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility", by Stacey Richter
• "Orange", by Neil Gaiman
• "Psyche's Dark Night", by Francesca Lia Block
• "The Story of the Mosquito", by Lily Hoang
• "First Day of Snow", by Naoko Awa
• "I Am Anjuhimeko", by Hiromi Ito
• "Coyote Takes Us Home", by Michael Mejia
• "Ever After", by Kim Addonizio
• "Whitework", by Kate Bernheimer

Notes and References

1. Book: American Fantastic Tales. 978-0143117841 . Bernheimer . Kate . Smith . Carmen Giménez . 2010 . Penguin Books .
2. Web site: The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2011 World Fantasy Awards . . 2013-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131204234009/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Wfa2011.html . 2013-12-04 . live.