Guran, Paula (ed) - Beyond the Woods / Гуран, Пола (ред) - За тёмными лесами: Старые сказки на новый лад [2016, EPUB, ENG]

Red As Blood / Красны как кровь short story by Tanith Lee In the House of Gingerbread / В пряничном домике short story by Gene Wolfe The Bone Mother / Костяная нога short story by Angela Slatter Follow Me Light / Путеводный огонь short story by Elizabeth Bear The Coin of Heart's Desire / Монета заветных желаний short story by Yoon Ha Lee The Glass Bottle Trick / Фокус с бутылкой short story by Nalo Hopkinson The Maiden-Tree / Дева-дерево short story by Catherynne M. Valente The Coat of Stars / Сюртук из звёзд short story by Holly Black The Road of Needles / Дорога иголок short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan Travels with the Snow Queen / Путешествия со Снежной Королевой novelette by Kelly Link Halfway People / О тех, кто на полпути short story by Karen Joy Fowler Catastrophic Disruption of the Head / Губительный выстрел в голову novelette by Margo Lanagan Lavanya and Deepika / Лаванья и Дипика short story by Shveta Thakrar Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon / Принцесса Люсинда и лунный пёс short story by Theodora Goss Fairy Tale / Волшебная сказка short story by Gardner Dozois The Queen Who Could Not Walk / Королева, которая не умела ходить short story by Peter S. Beagle Lebkuchen / Лебкухен short fiction by Priya Sharma Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale / Жемчуга и алмазы: волшебная сказка short story by Neil Gaiman The Queen and the Cambion / Королева и Камбион short story by Richard Bowes Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn / Мемуары джинна из бутылки short story by Jane Yolen The Mussel Eater / Поедатели мидий short story by Octavia Cade Bears: A Fairy Tale of 1958 / Медведи. Волшебная сказка-1958 short story by Steve Duffy The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep / Луна тонет, пока я сплю novelette by Charles de Lint Rats / Крысы short story by Veronica Schanoes Beyond the Naked Eye / Чего не увидишь невооружённым глазом short fiction by Rachel Swirsky Good Hunting / Доброй охоты! short story by Ken Liu By the Moon's Good Grace / Во имя Луны Всемилостивой novelette by Kirstyn McDermott The Juniper Tree / Можжевельник novelette by Peter Straub Greensleeves / Зелёные рукава short story by Jeff VanderMeer Beauty / Красавица novelette by Tanith Lee

Far Away And Long Ago is a real country, older and more enduring than any bound by degrees and hours and minutes on a map. For a time there lived a king and queen there no worse than most kings and queens, and probably a little better. These two ruled their subjects kindly enough, considering that they rarely saw any of them, except for the servants who assured the king and queen that they were better rulers than the ruled deserved. When they rode abroad on their semiannual passages, the streets were lined with ranks of cheering people who waved their caps, if they owned any, and threw flowers, if they could afford them, and kisses if they could not. And the affection and loyalty displayed was reasonably genuine, for the people knew well how much worse things could be, and often had been, and were thus grateful. Part of their tenderness for the queen undoubtedly stemmed from the well-known fact that she was crippled, her legs stricken useless from the very day of her wedding. Her affliction caused her no pain—indeed, her health otherwise was remarkably vigorous—but no doctor was ever able to provide cause or cure, nor could any wisewoman mumble and chant her way through the mystery, however many chickens she slaughtered. So the queen sat all day on her padded throne, or reclined gracefully on a specially built divan; she was carried everywhere within the palace and its great crystal-roofed gardens by the king himself; and, of course, traveled in a closed sedan chair whenever she went outside. Everything was done for her comfort that might be done, and if sometimes that constant awareness was an ache in itself, she kept it close and never let it show. For she had been raised properly, and she knew how queens properly dealt with aches. It says a good deal for the king that it never occurred to him to reject his wife, to return her to her family as damaged goods, as many advised him. On the contrary, he had both sense and wit enough to treat her altogether as his partner and companion in all matters: ruling in sorrow at times, and in discomfort always, but ruling. And, as has been said, they were at least better than the average run of those who had come before them. . . .