Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others
Bowes, Richard
ISBN 10: 1619760282 / ISBN 13: 9781619760288
Published by Aqueduct Press, 2013
Bibliographic Details
Title: Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: As New
Edition: First.
About this title
Synopsis:
Myth is the sea on which the Fantasy story floats. Legend is the wind that drives it. Its place of birth is the Fairy Tale.
Richard Bowes' collection of modern Fairy Tales, their Fantasy offspring, and their legendary ancestors presents eight of his stories including "The Lady
of Wands," in which a Fey cop tells her story, that appears here for the first time. Also original to this book is Bowes’ afterword, "A Secret History of
Small Books," which traces the path of Fairy Tales as a refuge for women, gay/lesbian writers, and LGBT readers from the 17th century on.
The collection also includes "Seven Smiles and Six Frowns" a story of the evolution of a Fairy Tale; "The Cinnamon Cavalier," a Fairy Tale variation a
critic has called, "The Gingerbread Man, writ large," and "The Margay’s Children" a modern take on a "Beastly Bridegroom" tale; "The Progress of
Solstice and Chance," with its complex sexual relations and invented pantheon of gods, the outrageous situation and characters of "The Bear Dresser’s
Secret," and the "The Lady of Wands," set in a fairy/mortal demi-monde; and two Arthurian tales, "Sir Morgravain Speaks of Night Dragons and Other
Things" and "The Queen and the Cambion" in which the eponymous queen, though famous, is not Guinevere.
About the Author:
Richard Bowes is the author of several novels, including Minions of the Moon, which won the Lambda Award, and a great deal of short fiction, which has
been collected in Transfigured Night and Other Stories and Streetcar Dreams and other Midnight Fancies, and has garnered two World Fantasy Awards,
the International Horror Guild award, and several Nebula Award nominations.
