My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
{{Short description|2010 anthology of fantasy stories}}
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| author = edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Fantasy short stories
| publisher = Penguin Books
| release_date = September 28, 2010
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| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 608 pp
| isbn = 978-0-14-311784-1
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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.{{cite book|title=American Fantastic Tales|isbn=978-0143117841 |last1=Bernheimer |first1=Kate |last2=Smith |first2=Carmen Giménez |year=2010 |publisher=Penguin Books }} The book was published by Penguin Books on September 28, 2010. The anthology itself won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Wfa2011.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2011 World Fantasy Awards |work=Locus |accessdate=2013-09-20 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204234009/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Wfa2011.html |archivedate=2013-12-04 |url-status=live}}
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
References
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{{World Fantasy Award Best Anthology}}
Category:Collections of fairy tales
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