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Happily Ever After

by Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Charles de Lint, Susanna Clarke, Garth Nix, Karen Joy Fowler, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Bill Willingham, Gregory Maguire, Genevieve Valentine, Howard Waldrop, Michael Cadnum, Theodora Goss, Jim C. Hines, Alethea Kontis, Wil McCarthy, Jane Yolen, Michelle Sagara West, Bruce Sterling, K. Tempest Bradford, Alan Rodgers, Leslie What, Robert J. Howe, Wendy Wheeler, Paul Di Filippo, Jeff VanderMeer, Gregory Frost, Susan Wade, Josh Rountree, Nancy Kress, Esther M. Friesner, Robert Coover · 2011

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Happily Ever After is a star-studded book of fairy tales, featuring an introduction by Bill Willingham (Fables) and stories by Gregory Maguire, Susanna Clarke, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles de Lint, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, and many other fantasy luminaries.

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