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Once-Upon A Period,,in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor recognized that no body had gathered together the fairy tales of age, and that doorstop-heavy anthologies of contemporary fairy tales were sorely missing,And therefore the Editor went forth, roaming the land of Story from shore to shore, hiking huge hills of publications and diving deeply into rich, fictional woodlands, collecting together forty-three of the greatest re-tellings of fairy tales he may find. Not only any fairy tales, actually, but enticing tales from a few of the greatest brands in the current wonderful fiction, writers like Gregory Maguire, Susanna Clarke, Charles de Lint, Holly Black, Aletha Kontis, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Paul Di Filippo, Gregory Frost, and Nancy Kress. But these tales alone were not enough to fulfill the Editor, therefore the Editor embarked more, in to the risky cavern of the fearsome Bill Willingham, and appeared unchanged with an impressive launch, to connect the selection together.And the occupants of Tale, from the Kings and Queens calming within their forts for the peasants working in the fields; from towards the fey people bouncing concerning the woodlands towards the trolls hiding under links and the leaders in the hillsides, browse the anthology, and loved it. And all of them existed,,Happily-Ever After.