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Paula Guran (Directeur de publication)
Brilliance Audio (10/08/2017)
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Résumé :
Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as “fairy tales” were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers at all ages.

Over the years, authors have often borrowed bits and pieces from these stories, grafting them into their own writing, creating literature with bo... >Voir plus
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Ah, les contes... J'aimerais dire les merveilleux contes de mon enfance, mais je n'ai pas souvenir qu'on m'en ait raconté. J'ai découvert que ça existait bien longtemps après et forcément, quand on est grand, ça doit perdre de son charme. Sauf que ce recueil de contes de fées n'est pas du tout destiné aux enfants. Encore que je parie qu'ils m'auraient plu.
Toujours est-il que rien n'était censé m'attirer vers ce livre, si ce n'est de voir Peter Straub écrit en lettres de feu au beau milieu de tous ces auteurs (comment ça j'en fais trop ?).
Paula Guran a réussir à réunir une magnifique brochette de plumes qui m'ont toutes ravie. Par contre, je vois qu'il est marqué édition audio... faut pas rêver, j'ai une version papier, et il existe aussi en ebook.
Hormis un ou deux des récits qui m'ont un peu moins plu, nous avons affaire à une réinterprétation de contes et de fables plutôt exceptionnelle. La plupart sont très sombres, denses et intenses, mélanges de réel et d'imaginaire. L'humour y a sa place également, ce que j'apprécie en général, surtout l'humour noir et grinçant, et je ne regrette nullement de m'être jetée sur ce bouquin.
Je vous mets la liste des récits ci-dessous :

Introduction: Throwing In – Paula Guran
Tanith Lee – “Red as Blood”
Gene Wolfe – “In the House of Gingerbread”
Angela Slatter – “The Bone Mother”
Elizabeth Bear – “Follow Me Light”
Yoon Ha Lee – “Coin of Hearts Desire”
Nalo Hopkinson – “The Glass Bottle Trick”
Catherynne M. Valente – “The Maiden Tree”
Holly Black – “Coat of Stars”
Caitlín R. Kiernan – “Road of Needles”
Kelly Link – “Travels with the Snow Queen”
Karen Joy Fowler – “Halfway People”
Margo Lanagan – “Catastrophic Disruption of the Head”
Shveta Thakrar – “Lavanya and Deepika”
Theodora Goss – “Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon”
Gardner Dozois – “Fairy Tale”
Peter S. Beagle – “The Queen Who Could Not Walk”
Priya Sharma – “Lebkuchen”
Neil Gaiman – “Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale”
Richard Bowes – “The Queen and the Cambion”
Octavia Cade – “The Mussel Eater”
Jane Yolen – “Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn”
Steve Duffy – “Bears: A Fairy Tale of 1958”
Charles de Lint –“The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep”
Veronica Schanoes – “Rats”
Rachel Swirsky – “Beyond the Naked Eye”
Ken Liu – “Good Hunting”
Kirstyn McDermott – “The Moon's Good Grace”
Peter Straub – “The Juniper Tree”
Jeff VanderMeer – “Greensleeves”
Tanith Lee – “Beauty”
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Fourteen years ago, another woman had stood at this window, but she was not like the Witch Queen. The woman had black hair that fell to her ankles; she had a crimson gown, the girdle worn high beneath her breasts, for she was far gone with child. And this woman had thrust open the glass casement on the winter garden, where the old trees crouched in the snow. Then, taking a sharp bone needle, she had thrust it into her finger and shaken three bright drops on the ground. “Let my daughter have,” said the woman, “hair black as mine, black as the wood of these warped and arcane trees. Let her have skin like mine, white as this snow. And let her have my mouth, red as my blood.” And the woman had smiled and licked at her finger. She had a crown on her head; it shone in the dusk like a star. She never came to the window before dusk; she did not like the day. She was the first Queen, and she did not possess a mirror.
He shrugged.
“Maybe yes, maybe no. Your husband was embalmed, wasn’t he?”
“Yes. Yes, he was.”
“Then there’s a good chance. It depends on how good a job they did on him, the soil temperature, and how tight the box is. It depends on a lot of things, really, but there’s a good chance. Then there are some tests they can always run—like for arsenic or lead. You can look at a body a hundred years later and still find those things.”
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“Good man, sweet man, it was only a test of you. Am I not a witch? And do you not love me?”
The huntsman trembled, for he did love her, and she was pressed so close her heart seemed to beat within his own body.
“Put away the knife. Throw away the silly crucifix. We have no need of these things. The King is not one half the man you are.”
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