Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Like gleaming drops of royal blood upon an innocent coverlet of snow, this work startles the reader and leaves you pondering the deeper meanings and mysteries hidden in the words before you. Some of the tales seem as natural, beautiful, and dangerous as a sudden storm; One could almost believe they were found fully grown somewhere between the wild blackberries and the sweet red rose. Others have been offered up upon a bloody altar as gruesome sacrifice and a savage leering reminder that some ancient rituals took place in secret, under a moonless sky. Here you will find humor, tragedy, love, lust, kindness, violence, madness, innocence, wisdom, life and death woven into ...  Read the complete review