Redder Than Blood

Praise for Red as Blood: Lee has conceived something unique and executed it superlatively well, displaying gifts as both a fantasy writer and a folklorist. -Booklist Tanith Lee is Fantastika's Joyce Carol Oates.... You can imagine these timeless stories whispered around an oasis campfire or in a sharship's engine room. -Locus [Tanith Lee is the] Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy and Goddess-Empress of the Hot Read. -Village Voice Lee's entrancing and vivid style make what may seem a minor exercise into a collection of essentially new stories with some of the resonances of folklore. -Publishers Weekly Lee is equally at home with sf and fantasy, and in this collection of nine stories, she turns some familiar fairy tales inside-out, investing them with an unearthly aura. -Library Journal [Lee retells] these classics with unique, insightful, often terrifying twists. -Kliatt These are not just rewritten stories, they are retold. And the retelling is good enough that many of them ring as true as the originals. -Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review All of Lee's stories have a style which is heroic, convincing and is feminist without interfering with the overall impact of her fiction. Red as Blood is one of her best. -Fiction, Literature and the Arts Review [Tanith Lee] is one of the finest short story writers publishing in the field of fantasy and SF today. -SFRA