Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales (41 page)

M
ARGARET
S
TOHL
is the
New York Times
–and internationally bestselling co-author (with Kami Garcia) of the Beautiful Creatures novels, as well as the forthcoming Icons novels, both from Little, Brown.
Beautiful Creatures
, which has sold more than
one million copies, has been published in forty-eight countries and thirty-seven languages, and was released as a major motion picture from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Brothers in 2013. Alcon Entertainment is also developing
Icons
as a feature film. A graduate of Amherst College, with an MA from Stanford
University, Margaret made video games for sixteen years before turning to writing full-time.
Margaret now spends most of her free time traveling to faraway places with her husband and three daughters, who are internationally ranked fencers. You can find her online at www.margaret-stohl.com or @mstohl.

C
HARLES
V
ESS
has been drawing ever since he could hold a crayon and crawl to the nearest wall. Charles graduated with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and worked in commercial
animation for Candy Apple Productions in Richmond, Virginia, before moving to New York City in 1976. It was there that he became a freelance illustrator, working for many companies and publications, including
Heavy Metal
, Klutz Press, Epic Comics, and
National Lampoon
. His award-winning work has graced the covers and interior pages of many comic book publishers including Marvel (
Spider-Man
,
The
Raven Banner
) and DC (
Books of Magic
,
Swamp Thing
,
Sandman
). His work now is found more in book illustration, such as
The Ladies of Grace Adieu
(Bloomsbury),
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
(Viking), and
Peter Pan
(Starscape). Charles’s art has been featured in several gallery and museum exhibitions across the nation, and in Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Charles’s awards include
the Inkpot, three World Fantasies, the Mythopoeic, two Spectrum Annuals—a Gold and a Silver—two Chesleys, Locus (Best Artist), and two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. He has resided on a small farm in the southwest corner of Virginia since 1991 and works diligently from his studio, Green Man Press.

G
ENE
W
OLFE
is one of the most highly respected living authors of science fiction, best known
for his ambitious and groundbreaking
Book of the New Sun series. He is a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and a SFWA Grand Master, as well as the winner of two Nebula Awards and four World Fantasy Awards.

R
ICK
Y
ANCEY
is the author of several novels and the memoir
Confessions of a Tax Collector
. His first young adult novel,
The Extraordinary
Adventures of Alfred Kropp
, was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal and has been translated into seventeen languages. His novel
The Monstrumologist
received the Michael L. Printz Honor and was named a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editors’ Choice for Youth. The sequel,
The Curse of the Wendigo
, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
The 5th Wave
, the first novel in
an epic science fiction trilogy, will be published in the summer of 2013.

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

Introduction by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt

That the Machine May Progress Eternally
by Carrie Ryan
Inspired by E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”

The King of Elfland’s Daughter
by Charles Vess

Losing Her Divinity
by Garth Nix
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King”

The Sleeper and the Spindle
by Neil Gaiman
Inspired by “Sleeping Beauty”

Kai Lung’s Golden Hours
by Charles Vess

The Cold Corner by Tim Pratt Inspired
by Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”

Millcara
by Holly Black
Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla

Figures of Earth
by Charles Vess

When First We Were Gods
by Rick Yancey
Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark”

Sirocco
by Margaret Stohl
Inspired by Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

The Shaving of Shagpat
by Charles Vess

Awakened
by Melissa Marr
Inspired by Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

New Chicago
by Kelley Armstrong
Inspired by W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw”

The Wood Beyond the World
by Charles Vess

The Soul Collector
by Kami Garcia
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm’s “Rumpelstiltskin”

Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy
by Saladin Ahmed
Inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

Goblin Market
by Charles Vess

Uncaged
by Gene Wolfe
Inspired by William B. Seabrook’s “The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban”

Contributor Biographies

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Compilation copyright © 2013 by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt

“That the Machine May Progress Eternally” copyright © 2013 by Carrie Ryan. “Losing Her Divinity”
copyright © 2013 by Garth Nix. “The Sleeper and the Spindle” copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. “The Cold Corner” copyright © 2013 by Tim Pratt. “Millcara” copyright © 2013 by Holly Black. “When First We Were Gods” copyright © 2013 by Rick Yancey. “Sirocco” copyright © 2013 by Margaret Stohl. “Awakened” copyright © 2013 by Melissa Marr. “New Chicago” copyright © 2013 by Kelley Armstrong. “The Soul
Collector” copyright © 2013 by Kami Garcia. “Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy” copyright © 2013 by Saladin Ahmed. “Uncaged” copyright © 2013 by Gene Wolfe. Illustrations © 2013 by Charles Vess

Cover art © 2103 by Grady McFerrin

Cover design by Neil Swaab

Cover © 2013 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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First ebook edition: October 2013

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