Presents the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth - carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties. This title re-examines themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction in a darker light by 21 teller of tales.

"Black Swan, White Raven" revisits more than 20 beloved childhood tales, only this time from an edgy, provocative, and distinctly adult perspective. Such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Yolen, and John Crowley deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic, and the erotic at the core of the world's best-known fables.