Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales - Hardcover

The best writers of our generation retell the classics.

Literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them; ones that have become ingrained in modern culture; and ones that have been too long overlooked. They take these stories and boil them down to their bones, and then reassemble them for a new generation of readers.

Today's most acclaimed authors use their own unique styles to rebuild these twelve timeless stories:

Sir Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' - Saladin Ahmed

W. W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw' - Kelley Armstrong

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' - Holly Black

'Sleeping Beauty' - Neil Gaiman

The Brothers Grimm's 'Rumpelstiltskin' - Kami Garcia

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' - Melissa Marr

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' - Garth Nix

Henry James's 'The Jolly Corner' - Tim Pratt

E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops' - Carrie Ryan

Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' - Margaret Stohl

William Seabrook's 'The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban' - Gene Wolfe

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Birth-Mark' - Rick Yancey

And six illustrations by Charles Vess