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From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology . A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Take a trip to a terrifying carnival and uncover the secrets within, solve a mysterious puzzle box and await your reward, join a travelling circus and witness the strangest ventriloquist act you've ever seen.
In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth.
Just don't forget to leave your trail of breadcrumbs...
Featuring stories from:
Joanne Harris
Neil Gaiman
Joe Hill
Sarah Pinborough
Angela Slatter
M. R. Carey
Christina Henry
A. C. Wise
Laura Purcell
Katherine Arden
Adam L. G. Nevill
Mark Chadbourn
Helen Grant
Kelley Armstrong
A. K. Benedict
L. L. McKinney
Author Notes
Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award.
He writes both children and adult books. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014; Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999; American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards; Anansi Boys; Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards; The Wolves in the Walls; Odd and the Frost Giants; The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Dark magic runs rampant through this star-studded sequel to O'Regan and Kane's Cursed anthology. "The Bell" by Joanne Harris makes a fitting opener, warning readers to be careful of acting without knowing what the consequences will be. Some of these 16 tales are direct spins on familiar stories--among them "Snow, Glass, Apples," Neil Gaman's take on "Snow White"--while others are entirely new: one of the more surprising is "A Curse Is a Curse" by Helen Grant, which reveals a shocking truth about the Wall that encloses the heroine's village. Another standout, "Shoes as Red as Blood" by A.C. Wise, examines the brutal fates that often befall women and girls in fairy tales. The members of the support group in M.R. Carey's "Mr Thirteen" suffer from physical curses, while the characters of Joe Hill's "Dark Carousel" are haunted by a cycle of violence. A handful of stories take a lighter approach: the circus provides refuge for the cursed in Angela Slatter's "The Tissot Family Circus," while the heroine of "St. Diabolo's Traveling Music Hall" by A.K. Benedict uses curses to aid abused women. The anthology ends on a strong note with L.L. McKinney's incredibly unsettling "The Music Box." Fans of eerie fairy tales and dark fantasy won't want to miss this. (Apr.)
Booklist Review
This follow-up to O'Regan and Kane's Cursed (2020) shares the same basic premise as the first anthology: it contains a wide array of genre stories dealing with some person or group of people who are, in a word, cursed. The anthology is made up mostly of relatively recent stories, with a few exceptions, such as Neil Gaiman's almost 30-year-old "Snow White" retelling, "Snow, Glass, Apples," and Sarah Pinborough's 2009 "The Confessor's Tale," a story previously featured in a Hellraiser-themed anthology by the same editors, explaining the surprising and, to an unknowing reader, jarring appearance of the Cenobites. Overall this is a solid anthology, varying widely in tone and theme from other fairy-tale retellings (including another "Snow White") to the fairly humorous, like M.R. Carey's curse-afflicted support group in "Mr Thirteen," to bleaker entries like Adam LG Nevill's grim cycle of bloodthirsty, occult landlordship in "The Angels of London." This anthology should more than satisfy established genre fans and general readers alike.
Library Journal Review
This is a great collection for readers who want to dip their fantasy toes into stories filled with as much dread as wonder. It is a follow-up to Cursed, filled with 16 stories that explore what happens after curses have been flung. Memorable pieces include Neil Gaiman's "Snow, Glass, Apples," telling the Snow White fairy tale from the perspective of the wicked witch, with a reminder that history is written by the victors. "Dark Carousel" by Joe Hill takes youthful hijinks and a haunted merry-go-round and spins them into a curse that follows a man around the world, while "The Tissot Family Circus" by Angela Slatter takes the idea of a haunted circus and transforms it into a story about being saved rather than damned. A wanderer discovers that some sleeping dogs should definitely be left to lie in Joanna Harris's "The Bell." VERDICT Some of the stories merely sidle up to the line between dark fantasy and horror, and some stake their oozing, bleeding hearts with it, but all bring a shiver of fear, dread, or understanding.--Marlene Harris
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 |
| The Bell | 5 |
| Snow, Glass, Apples | 9 |
| The Tissot Family Circus | 29 |
| Mr Thirteen | 47 |
| The Confessor's Tale | 71 |
| The Old Stories Hide Secrets Deep Inside Them | 91 |
| Awake | 115 |
| Pretty Maids All In A Row | 127 |
| The Viral Voyage of Bird Man | 151 |
| The Angels of London | 171 |
| A Curse is a Curse | 201 |
| Dark Carousel | 223 |
| Shoes as Red as Blood | 267 |
| Just Your Standard Haunted Doll Drama | 285 |
| St Diabolo's Travelling Music Hall | 305 |
| The Music Box | 321 |
| About the Authors | 335 |
| About the Editors | 345 |
| Acknowledgements | 349 |
