Teeth_ Vampire Tales - Ellen Datlow [143]
TERRI WINDLING is an editor, artist, folklorist, and essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field, and her book The Armless Maiden was placed on the short list for the Tiptree Award. She has edited more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction (many of them in collaboration with Ellen Datlow); she created the Borderland series (a pioneering work of urban fantasy); and she’s been a consulting editor for the Tor Books fantasy line since 1986. As a painter, she has had her art exhibited in museums and galleries in England, France, and the United States; she is also codirector of the Endicott Studio, a transatlantic organization dedicated to mythic arts. A former New Yorker, Terri now lives in a small country village in the west of England with her husband, stepdaughter, and a lively black dog. For more information, please visit her website, www.terriwindling.com; her blog, http://windling.typepad.com/blog; and the Endicott Studio’s website, www.endicott-studio.com.
Other Anthologies by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
CHILDREN’S FAIRY TALE SERIES:
A Wolf at the Door
and Other Retold Fairy Tales
Swan Sister:
Fairy Tales Retold
Troll’s Eye View:
A Book of Villainous Tales
THE MYTHIC SERIES:
The Green Man:
Tales from the Mythic Forest
The Faery Reel:
Tales from the Twilight Realm
The Coyote Road:
Trickster Tales
The Beastly Bride
and Other Tales of the Animal People
THE ADULT FAIRY TALE SERIES:
Snow White, Blood Red
Black Thorn, White Rose
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Black Swan, White Raven
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Salon Fantastique:
Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers:
Magical Tales of Love and Seduction
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror:
Volumes 1 through 16
Copyright
Introduction © 2011 by Terri Windling
“Things to Know About Being Dead” copyright © 2011 by Genevieve Valentine
“All Smiles” copyright © 2011 by Steve Berman
“Gap Year” copyright © 2011 by Christopher Barzak
“Bloody Sunrise” copyright © 2008, 2010 by Neil Gaiman, written as a song lyric for Claudia Gonson and recorded on the CD accompanying The Lifted Brow Volume 4, published in November 2008. This is the piece’s first print publication.
“Flying” copyright © 2011 by Delia Sherman
“Vampire Weather” copyright © 2011 by Garth Nix
“Late Bloomer” copyright © 2011 by Suzy McKee Charnas
“The List of Definite Endings” copyright © 2011 by Kaaron Warren
“Best Friends Forever” copyright © 2011 by Cecil Castellucci
“Sit the Dead” copyright © 2011 by Jeffrey Ford
“Sunbleached” copyright © 2011 by Nathan Ballingrud
“Baby” copyright © 2011 by Kathe Koja
“In the Future When All’s Well” copyright © 2011 by Catherynne M. Valente
“Transition” copyright © 2011 by Melissa Marr
“History” copyright © 2011 by Ellen Kushner
“The Perfect Dinner Party” copyright © 2011 by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
“Slice of Life” copyright © 2011 by Lucius Shepard
“My Generation” copyright © 2011 by Emma Bull
“Why Light?” copyright © 2011 by Tanith Lee
Teeth
Copyright © 2011 by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
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Teeth: vampire tales / edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. — 1st