The Armless Maiden

The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors is a fantasy anthology edited by Terri Windling.

1995 Tiptree Shortlist.

Contents

• "Introduction" by Terri Windling
• "The Armless Maiden" by Midori Snyder
• "The Hero's Journey" (essay) by Midori Snyder
• "Bedtime Story" (poem) by Lisel Mueller
• "Allerleirauh" by Jane Yolen
• "Snow White to the Prince" (poem) by Delia Sherman
• "She Sleeps in a Tower" by Tanith Lee
• "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)" (poem) by Anne Sexton
• "In the House of My Enemy" by Charles de Lint
• "Fear of Falling" (poem) by Susan Palwick
• "Princess in Puce" by Annita Harlan
• "The Stepsister's Story" (poem) by Emma Bull
• "The Session" by Steven Gould
• "The Mirror Speaks" (poem) by Jane Yolen
• "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub
• "Dolls" (poem) by Guy Summertree Veryzer
• "This Is Us, Excellent" by Mark Richards
• "Saturn" (poem) by Sharon Olds
• "The Twelve-Windowed Tower" by Silvana Siddali
• "Now I Lay Me (poem) by Sharon Olds
• "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" by Ellen Kushner
• "Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny" (poem) by Lisel Mueller
• "Knives" by Munro Sickafoose
• "Scars" (poem) by Munro Sickafoose
• "The Pangs of Love" by Jane Gardam
• "Brother and Sister" (poem) by Terri Windling
• "The Face in the Cloth" by Jane Yolen
• "Their Father" (poem) by Gwen Strauss
• "The Chrysanthemum Robe" by Kara Dalkey
• "Watching the Bobolinks" (memoir) by Caroline Stevermer
• "The Boy Who Needed Heroes" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Wolves" (memoir) by Sonia Keizas
• "Wolf's Heart" by Tappan King
• "The Story I Hadn't Planned to Write" (essay) by Tappan King
• "Gretel in Darkness" (poem) by Louise Gluck
• "The Lily and the Weaver's Heart" by Nancy Etchemendy
• "Silvershod" (poem) by Ellen Steiber
• "The Lion and the Lark" by Patricia A. McKillip
• "The Iron Shoes" (poem) by Johnny Clewell
• "The Green Children" by Terri Windling
• "Guardian Neighbor" (memoir) by Lynda Barry
• "The Little Dirty Girl" by Joanna Russ
• "Donkeyskin" (prose poem) by Terri Windling
• "In the Night Country" by Ellen Steiber
• "A Matter of Seeing" (essay) by Ellen Steiber
• "Afterword: Surviving Childhood" (essay) by Terri Windling
• "Epilogue: Dream Catcher" by Will Shetterly.
• About the Contributors.
• A Short List of Recommended Reading.

Editions

• 1995: Tor, New York. ISBN 0-312-86221-0.

Reviews, commentaries

• "The third-wave feminists in the 1970s claimed inc3st and child abuse, brought them into the open, and pushed society to acknowledge these crimes. The therapy movements that emerged from that time continue to shape our personal lives, our media, our arts, and our society. The Armless Maiden is a fantasy anthology with the theme of child abuse, recovery, escape. Many of the stories are revisions of old fairy tales; many of the stories are creations of new fairy tales. The stories follow adults, children, abusers, the abused, those who escape, and those who do not. Many of the stories are published for the first time in this collection. I highly recommend this anthology - if you look around, you will almost certainly know one or several people who were abused in their child (or adult-) hood." -- lq, 5/10/99 (published on original fsf.org site)