The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm Free Audiobook

Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Read By Nicola Daval

CONTENTS
Preface by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Introduction by Terri Windling
1 The Boys of Goose Hill by Charles de Lint
2 CATNYP by Delia Sherman
3 Elvenbrood by Tanith Lee
4 Your Garnet Eyes by Katherine Vaz
5 Tengu Mountain by Gregory Frost
6 The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
7 The Price of Glamour by Steve Berman
8 The Night Market by Holly Black
9 Never Never by Bruce Glassco
10 Screaming for Faeries by Ellen Steiber
11 Immersed in Matter by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
12 Undine by Patricia A. McKillip
13 The Oakthing by Gregory Maguire
14 Foxwife by Hiromi Goto
15 The Dream Eaters by A.M. Dellamonica
16 The Faery Reel by Neil Gaiman
17 The Shooter at the Heartrock Waterhole by Bill Congreve
18 The Annals of Eelin-Ok by Jeffrey Ford
19 De la Tierra by Emma Bull
20 How to Find Faery by Nan Fry

The editors state in their preface that fairies are as individualistic as humans, with a variety of names, shapes, sizes, customs, habitats, and local histories. This collection includes fairy songs and poems by Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, and Nan Fry; and stories about fairies that live in magical handbags, elves in the Philippines who bewitch and sicken young girls; and futuristic urban societies where fairies siphon people’s dreams. Twenty writers contributed tales, including Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Patricia A. McKillip, and Ellen Steiber. Delia Sherman’s “CATNYP” concerns a feisty changling girl who helps a changling boy return to the “real” New York City from the parallel fairy world where they were both raised. In the story, the New York Public Library’s automated catalog called CATNYP is a real lion and a library page is literally an animated piece of paper that retrieves books. In Bruce Glassco’s “Never Never,” Captain Hook and his pirate gang find themselves repeatedly resurrected for the amusement of their eternal foe, Peter Pan. Gregory Frost’s scary Japanese tale, “Tengu Mountain,” is about an evil goblin that disguises itself as a priest or monk to attack and kill unsuspecting travelers. All but one of the 20 stories are new and each one offers an intriguing look at many different kinds of fairies. Teen characters are often featured, but even the selections without them will appeal to fantasy lovers.