Фэйри или подобных им существ можно встретить почти во всех культурах мира. Доброжелательные и ужасающие, обаятельные и возмутительные, они меняют форму от страны к стране, от истории к истории и от момента к моменту, не меняя своей сути. Прославленные составители антологий Эллен Датлоу и Терри Виндлинг собрали под одной обложкой лучших творцов фантастических рассказов и стихов, которые в своем творчестве опираются на величайшее богатство мировых знаний о фэйри и классических произведений о них: Нила Геймана, Холли Блэк, Чарльза Де Линта, Патрицию Маккиллип, Танит Ли и многих других.

This sixth anthology in the adult fairy-tale series by acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling presents another diverse collection of stories and poems loosely based on folklore traditions around the world. Readers familiar with previous books in the series will recognize the names of many regular contributors, including Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, Esther Friesner, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as works from Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, and others. Tanith Lee's "Rapunzel" opens the collection with a charmingly simple reconstruction of that classic fairy tale. Esther Friesner's "Big Hair" takes the same theme into the present with less cheerful results. Greg Costikyan considers the...

Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic — the sorcery of lust, need, and sensuality. Multiple award-winners Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together twenty-two tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers — including Neil Gaiman, Jan Yolen, Michael Swanwick, and Joyce Carol Oates. Here are stories of incubi and succubi, of forbidden fruits harvested in erotic gardens, of pleasures that persist beyond death. So heed the sirens' song. Lie back, relax, and submit to the darkest delights you have ever experienced.