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Fitcher's Brides (Fairy Tale) (Hardcover)

by Gregory Frost (Author) "THEY CLIMBED THE GANGPLANK to the steamboat, the three Charter sisters ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (Dec 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765301946
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765301949
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.8 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 652,344 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Publishers Weekly, November 18, 2002 pg.46

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


BOOKPAGE DECEMBER 2002

Gregory Frost’s finely detailed chiller will stay with the reader for a long time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Even more gory than the original!, 23 May 2009
By Star_Sea "Xing" (Salisbury, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fitcher's Brides (Fairy Tale (Tor)) (Paperback)
"Fitcher's Brides" is a mixture of "Bluebeard" and "Fitcher's Bird", which both have the motif of a rich man marrying a younger woman and isolating her from everyone in his amazing home, then leaving her with the keys to all the rooms, except one, which she must not enter.

The three Charter sisters - Vernelia, Amy and Kate - have been uprooted from their comfortable life in Boston by their father and stepmother, and taken to the religious community of Jekyll's Glen, ruled over by the prophet Fitcher. The community believes that the world will be ending in the summer of 1843 and Vernelia is swiftly chosen by Fitcher as his bride, so he can enjoy the comfort of matrimony before the world ends. When Vernelia disappears, he then marries Amy. When Amy disappears, Kate becomes suspicious. Are the disappearances anything to do with the strange spirit that has been haunting their house? What is the glass pyramid at the top of Fitcher's house for? And why are there so many empty rooms full of women's clothing?

This book earned my admiration, not only for managing to be gorier than the original, but for actually addressing the issue of menstruation, which still seems to scare off most male writers. Frost transforms this story into a meditation upon religion, upon faith and fanaticism and sisterhood, which is both gripping and disturbing.
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