My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

A collection of all-new fairytales by some of the biggest names in fiction including stories by Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender and Neil Labute. Inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ and ‘The Little Match Girl’ to Charles Perrault’s ‘Bluebeard’ and ‘Cinderella’ to the Brothers Grimm’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ to fairytales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway and Mexico, here are stories that soar into boundless realms, filled with mischief, mystery and magic.