RAGS & BONES NEW TWISTS ON TIMELESS TALES HC - Tapa dura

The best writers of our generation retell the classics.

Literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them; ones that have become ingrained in modern culture; and ones that have been too long overlooked. They take these stories and boil them down to their bones, and then reassemble them for a new generation of readers.

Today's most acclaimed authors use their own unique styles to rebuild these twelve timeless stories:

Sir Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' - Saladin Ahmed

W. W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw' - Kelley Armstrong

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' - Holly Black

'Sleeping Beauty' - Neil Gaiman

The Brothers Grimm's 'Rumpelstiltskin' - Kami Garcia

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' - Melissa Marr

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' - Garth Nix

Henry James's 'The Jolly Corner' - Tim Pratt

E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops' - Carrie Ryan

Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' - Margaret Stohl

William Seabrook's 'The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban' - Gene Wolfe

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Birth-Mark' - Rick Yancey

And six illustrations by Charles Vess

Melissa Marr is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series. The series has sold in 24 languages to date, appeared on bestseller lists abroad, and is in development with Universal Studios for a major motion picture. She is also the co-author (with Kelley Armstrong) of the upcoming Blackwell Pages and co-editor (with Armstrong) of the forthcoming YA anthologies, Enthralled (2011) and Entrapped (2013).

Tim Pratt is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author whose works have been nominated for most of the major genre awards. His stories have been reprinted in numerous Year's Best anthologies, including the Best American Short Stories. He is a senior editor at Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field, and edited the 2010 anthology Sympathy for the Devil.