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Grimm Tales
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John Kenyon (Goodreads Author),
Nigel Bird (Goodreads Author), Kaye George (Goodreads Author), Blu Gilliand, Patricia Abbott, Eric Beetner (Goodreads Author), Jack Bates (Goodreads Author), Ken Bruen
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GRIMM TALES is a collection of stories by some of the top names in online crime fiction, all based on classic fairy tales. As novelist Ken Bruen writes in his introduction, "Ever imagined what would have come down the dark pike if The Brothers Grimm were more Brothers Coen and wrote mystery?" The collection is edited by John Kenyon, editor of Grift magazine, and contains 1...more
ebook, 91 pages
Published
December 19th 2011
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Review: Since this is an anthology I thought the best possible way to review the book was to break it down by story and write a mini-review for each one.
Joseph and Jasmine
Author: Patricia Abbott
What It’s About: Jasmine and Joseph are two kids born to a mother who has never been able to get her life together and can’t speak a word of truth. She stops by her father’s house, who has custody of her kids since Janice is to unfit to be a mother, and tells Joseph he’s going to go get milk and some othe...more
Joseph and Jasmine
Author: Patricia Abbott
What It’s About: Jasmine and Joseph are two kids born to a mother who has never been able to get her life together and can’t speak a word of truth. She stops by her father’s house, who has custody of her kids since Janice is to unfit to be a mother, and tells Joseph he’s going to go get milk and some othe...more
I have a story in this one!
But that's not why I gave it five stars. The stars are for my excellent fellow anthology writers. What a diversity of voice and imagination. Here's a bit from a blog post I did about it last night:
Riding on the coattails of my betters, I've got a story in a really terrific new anthology. Grimm Tales, edited by John Kenyon and with an introduction by the Galway master of crime writing himself, Ken Bruen, features a whole host of up and coming crime writers, all working...more
But that's not why I gave it five stars. The stars are for my excellent fellow anthology writers. What a diversity of voice and imagination. Here's a bit from a blog post I did about it last night:
Riding on the coattails of my betters, I've got a story in a really terrific new anthology. Grimm Tales, edited by John Kenyon and with an introduction by the Galway master of crime writing himself, Ken Bruen, features a whole host of up and coming crime writers, all working...more
I loved this novel of short stories! It was great to read some of the classic Grimm stories updated and crime riddled. For me, I think the most interesting stories were the ones based on Hansel and Gretel. I mean, who can't resist a tale of two small children, cannibalism and one nasty wicked witch? "Joseph and Jasmine" was brilliant. A druggie mom who loses custody of her children and the steps she takes to get them back falls short of kidnapping, but barely. Okay, not quite, but I'm sure if gi...more
What if you took a classic fairy tale and rewrote it for modern day? This anthology has 17 authors who did just that.
This is a great collection! The stories are short, so you can fit them in whenever you have time to read. Maybe not at a red light, but just about any other time. I enjoyed all but one story. I’m not going to say which one because it just happened to be written in a style I don’t like, so the story may be perfectly fine for most everyone else. If it’s really bugging you and you go...more
This is a great collection! The stories are short, so you can fit them in whenever you have time to read. Maybe not at a red light, but just about any other time. I enjoyed all but one story. I’m not going to say which one because it just happened to be written in a style I don’t like, so the story may be perfectly fine for most everyone else. If it’s really bugging you and you go...more
Hit and miss. The stories are mostly decent, but the scope of short crime stories is limited to begin with, since it's all about atmosphere and characters.
There are a couple of interesting base tales, but most of the authors stuck to the more famous tales, especially Hansel and Gretel.
There are a couple of interesting base tales, but most of the authors stuck to the more famous tales, especially Hansel and Gretel.
A nice collection of short crime stories based on fairy tales.
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| Untreed Reads: Read an Ebook Week: Seana Graham, Contributor to GRIMM TALES | 1 | 1 | Mar 11, 2013 03:39pm | |
| Untreed Reads: GRIMM TALES: A Great Collection | 2 | 7 | Jul 25, 2012 02:25am |
John Kenyon is executive director of the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. He edits Grift crime fiction magazine (griftmagazine.com), edited the ebook collection Grimm Tales and has published stories with Beat to a Pulp, Needle, Pulp Modern, Shotgun Honey and elsewhere.
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