''Silver Birch, Blood Moon'' is an anthology of fantasy stories edited by

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and

Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association). Career Datlow began her career ...

. It is one of a series of anthologies edited by the pair centered on re-told fairy tales. It was published by

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in May 1999. The anthology contains, among several other stories, the Pat York

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"You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine", which was original to the anthology and was nominated for a

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. The anthology itself won the 2000

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* Introduction (Silver Birch, Blood Moon), by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow * "Kiss Kiss", by Tanith Lee * "Carabosse", by Delia Sherman * "The Price", by

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* "Glass Coffin", by Caitlín R. Kiernan * "The Vanishing Virgin", by Harvey Jacobs * "Clad in Gossamer", by Nancy Kress * "Precious", by Nalo Hopkinson * "The Sea Hag", by Melissa Lee Shaw * "The Frog Chauffeur", by Garry Kilworth * "The Dybbuk in the Bottle", by Russell William Asplund * "The Shell Box", by Karawynn Long * "Ivory Bones", by Susan Wade * "The Wild Heart", by Anne Bishop * "You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child to Break Your Heart and Mine", by Pat York * "Arabian Phoenix", by India Edghill * "Toad-Rich", by Michael Cadnum * "Skin So Green and Fine", by Wendy Wheeler * "The Willful Child, the Black Dog, and the Beanstalk", by Melanie Tem * "Locks", by Neil Gaiman * "Marsh-Magic", by Robin McKinley * "Toad", by Patricia A. McKillip * "Recommended Reading (Silver Birch, Blood Moon), by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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, November 2008. *

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, September 2014 ebook.

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