Award-winning editor Paula Guran presents a diverse reprint anthology collecting classic myths and legends, retold by today’s top fantasy writers, including Neil Gaiman and Emma and Peter Straub.The Native American trickster Coyote . . .
the snake-haired Greek Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze turned men to stone . . .
Kaggen, creator of the San peoples of Africa . . .
the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend . . .
Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and beauty . . .
Ys, the mythical sunken city once built on the coast of France . . .
Ragnarok, the myth of a world destroyed and reborn . . .
Jason and the Argonauts, sailing in search of the Golden Fleece . . .
Myths and legends are the oldest of stories, part of our collective consciousness, and the source from which all fiction flows. Stories and authors include are:“Lost Lake” – Emma Straub and Peter Straub“White Lines on a Green Field” – Catherynne M. Valente“Trickster” – Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” – Brooke Bolander“A Memory of Wind” – Rachel Swirsky“Leda” – M.
Rickert“Chivalry” – Neil Gaiman“The God of Au” – Ann Leckie“Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate” – Anya Johanna DeNiro“Ogres of East Africa” – Sofia Samatar“Ys” – Aliette de Bodard“The Gorgon” – Tanith Lee“Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood” – Charles de Lint“Calypso in Berlin” – Elizabeth Hand“Seeds” – Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter“Wonder-Worker-of-the-World” – Nisi Shawl“Thesea and Astaurius” – Priya Sharma“Foxfire, Foxfire” – Yoon Ha Lee“Owl vs. the Neighborhood Watch” – Darcie Little Badger“How to Survive an Epic Journey” – Tansy Rayner Roberts“Simargl and the Rowan Tree” – Ekaterina Sedia“The Ten Suns” – Ken Liu“Armless Maidens of the American West” – Genevieve Valentine“Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” – Maria Dahvana Headley“Zhyuin” – John Shirley“Immortal Snake” – Rachel Pollack“A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie” – Sonya Taaffe