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• xvii • Introduction (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales) • essay by Kate Bernheimer
• xxv • Drawing the Curtain • essay by Gregory Maguire
• 1 • Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child • short story by Joy Williams
• 8 • Ardour • short story by Jonathon Keats
• 14 • I'm Here • (2001) • short story by
  Людмила Петрушевская^?Ludmila Petrushevskaya
  (trans. of
  Где я была^?Gde ya byla
  2000) [as by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya]
• 30 • The Brother and the Bird • (2009) • short story by Alissa Nutting
• 42 • Hansel and Gretel • (1993) • short story by Francine Prose
• 59 • A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin • (2002) • short story by Kevin Brockmeier
• 74 • With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold • short story by Neil LaBute
• 84 • The Swan Brothers • short story by Shelley Jackson
• 105 • The Warm Mouth • short story by Joyelle McSweeney
• 113 • Snow White, Rose Red • (2010) • short story by Lydia Millet
• 126 • The Erlking • short story by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• 139 • Dapplegrim • short story by Brian Evenson
• 149 • The Wild Swans • short story by Michael Cunningham
• 152 • Halfway People • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 165 • Green Air • short story by Rikki Ducornet
• 171 • The Mermaid in the Tree • short story by Timothy Schaffert
• 200 • What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body Is Gone • short story by Katherine Vaz
• 221 • The Snow Queen • short story by Karen Brennan
• 237 • Eyes of Dogs • (2008) • short story by Lucy Corin
• 250 • Little Pot • (2007) • short story by Ilya Kaminsky
• 254 • A Bucket of Warm Spit • short story by Michael Martone
• 270 • Catskin • (2003) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 299 • Teague O'Kane and the Corpse • short story by Chris Adrian
• 316 • Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay • (2007) • short story by Jim Shepard
• 337 • Body-Without-Soul • short story by Kathryn Davis
• 353 • The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone • (2010) • short story by Kellie Wells
• 361 • My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This is What Happened • short story by Sabrina Orah Mark
• 366 • The Color Master • short story by Aimee Bender
• 386 • The White Cat • (2006) • short story by Marjorie Sandor
• 390 • Blue-Bearded Lover • (1988) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 394 • Bluebeard in Ireland • (1994) • short story by John Updike
• 411 • A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper • short story by Rabih Alameddine
• 423 • A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility • (2005) • short story by Stacey Richter
• 434 • Orange • (2008) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 443 • Psyche's Dark Night • short story by Francesca Lia Block
• 460 • The Story of the Mosquito • short story by Lily Hoang
• 467 • First Day of Snow • (2010) • short story by
  安房直子^?あわなおこ
  Awa Naoko
  (trans. of
  初雪のふる日^?はつゆきのふるひ
  Hatsuyuki no Furuhi
  2004) [as by Naoko Awa]
• 472 • I Am Anjuhimeko • short story by Hiromi Ito
• 495 • Coyote Takes Us Home • (2008) • short story by Michael Mejia
• 512 • Ever After • (2006) • short story by Kim Addonizio
• 527 • Whitework • (2007) • short story by Kate Bernheimer