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TOOTH & TONGUE: 15 FAIRY TALESThis brand new collection from Bret Fetzer features a variety of
dark and delicious stories, set in European forests, Arabian deserts,
and Asian hillsides, as well as several stories set in an urban,
quasi-Victorian world. A stone gargoyle falls in love; a surly girl
becomes more docile after her mother sticks a pin into her head;
an imperial banquet leads to peril for a young man with a question
for an empress---these stories and many more will delight anyone
who remembers the innocence and malice of childhood. |
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PETALS & THORNS: 18 FAIRY TALESA wonderfully varied collection of unpredictable, startling, and
seductive fairy tales. A princess who doesn't want to get married
tricks her suitors into marrying beasts; the daughter of fisherman
is imprisoned by a fish in an undersea palace; a boy tries to rescue
a girl whose heart is infested by a worm. "Fetzer has struck
upon a perfect blend and balance of the absurd and the marvelous,
of insight and observation," said Puck, a journal of Literature
of the Fantastic. "[Fetzer's tales] have the wayward inevitability
of "real" folk tales, their contemporary overtones never
merely knowing or cute but firmly rooted in the dark, rich mulch
of myth," said Seattle Weekly. |
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FISH & FABLE: A BOOK-ON-TAPESix of Fetzer's most popular stories, read by the author himself
in his inimitable style. Recorded live, Fetzer's reading enhances
the sly undertones of the twisty tales. Featuring two stories now
out of print --- "The Romantic Pig" and "Seventeen
Princesses" --- and one story hitherto unpublished: "The
Book of Tongues." Describing his readings, The Stranger said:
"Bret Fetzer engages the mind, telling odd fairy tales with
such intrigue that his hour on the stage seems to vanish in an instant."
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