A dangerously seductive collection of tales thatlike the sirens themselvesare impossible to resist
Sensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ellen Kushner, and more. Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers features a vampire who falls in love with her human prey, an updated Red Riding Hood fantasy, an unsuspecting young man who innocently joins in seductive faerie revelry, and a cat goddess made human. Alluring and charismatic, this collection from master editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling will stimulate more than just your imagination.
This ebook features illustrated biographies of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, including rare photos from the editors personal collections.
Amazon.com Review
Obsessions, lust, passion, and ecstacy are the subjects of this excellent anthology edited by the talented, award-winning, and prolific team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. With uninhibited stories from heavy-hitters such as Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Pat Murphy, Jane Yolen, and Michael Swanwick, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers won't fail to capture your attention and hold it. These authors and many more take readers on a journey to the boundaries of love and sex, jumping freely into the abyss of magical fascination and strange desire. Highlights include Oates's Oedipal story of a teenage sex object, Kelley Eskridge's tale of a wanderer who only finds release and love in the heart of violence, and Tanith Lee's look inside Little Red Riding Hood's secret fantasies.
About the Author
Ellen Datlow is fiction editor for the SCIFI.COM website. She has edited numerous successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, Little Deaths, Off Limits, Twists of the Tale, and Vanishing Acts. With Terri Windling she has edited the popular anthology series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for sixteenyears. A multiple World Fantasy Award-winner, she lives in New York City.
Contents
My Lady of the Hearth
Storm Constantine
The Faerie Cony-catcher
Delia Sherman
Broke Heart Blues
Joyce Carol Oates
Wolfed
Tanith Lee
Ashes on Her Lips
Edward Bryant
Mirrors
Garry Kilworth
Midnight Express
Michael Swanwick
No Human Hands to Touch
Elizabeth E. Wein
Private Words
Mark W. Tiedemann
The House of Nine Doors
Ellen Kushner
Persephone
Wendy Froud
Taking Loup
Bruce Glassco