Fitcher's Brides (Fairy Tale) [Hardcover]

Frost neatly counterbalances the underlying threads of curiosity and disobedience with the growing awareness of true evil in Fitcher...a timeless story.

Gregory Frost’s finely detailed chiller will stay with the reader for a long time.

"GREGORY FROST is a power in the making, a fantasist equally at ease in the daylight world and in its eerie shadow."

...a gorgeous and gory fairytale. The reader is taken irresistibly along in a story packed with peril, cunning, courage, evil, and splendor.  I love this book.

I was hooked from the very first chapter. Fitcher’s Brides is a deliciously spooky – and beautifully written—page-turner.

FITCHER’S BRIDES (Tor Books), is a recasting of the fairy tale of Bluebeard as a terrifying story of faith and power, set in the "Burned-Over District" of New York State in 1843. It is the latest edition in the highly acclaimed Fairy Tale Series edited by Terri Windling.

GREGORY FROST's latest novel is FITCHER’S BRIDES, a December 2002 release from Tor Books; his most recent novelette, "Madonna of the Maquiladora" (Asimov’s Magazine, May 2002) currently resides on the SFWA Nebula Award preliminary ballot. Another of his stories, "How Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His Toes," was a finalist for the 1998 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Science Fiction.

His shorter work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Magazine, Whispers, Realms of Fantasy, and in such anthologies as Snow White, Blood Red and Black Swan, White Raven, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling; Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, edited by John Kessel & Richard Butner; his work has been included in the Best New Horror collections edited by Stephen Jones. In 2003, he’ll have stories in Nalo Hopkinson’s Mojo: Conjure Stories anthology, and in Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow’s YA collection My Swan Sister.

He has twice taught in the intensive Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop at Michigan State University (and is also a Clarion alumnus), and has been named the 2004 Fiction Writing Workshop Director at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in the US.

He also served as the principal researcher and preliminary writer for "Wolfman: The Science & the Myth," an episode of Science Frontiers on the Discovery Global Network (Silver Medal winner, Worldfest Houston 1997; highest rated show for the year on Discovery Europe 1997; highest rated documentary for Channel Four, UK, 1998); and as principal researcher for "Curse of Tutankhamen" (Gold Medal for "Best Historical Documentary" at Flagstaff International Film Festival 2000; Gold Star at Worldfest Houston 2000), also for Science Frontiers.