Do you know any adult fairytale fiction writers, i.e. Angela Carter?

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I also like Poppy Z. Brite

Answer 1

Try Beauty by Sherri Tepper or Vivia by Tanith Lee. For more contemporary sci fi with a fairy-tale feeling Jeff Noon's Curious Yellow or Nymphomation might hit the spot. Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast is fabulous but a little heavy going for a modern audience perhaps - worth the effort. Margaret Atwood and Neal Stephenson both use archetypal imagery with very different results - the Handmaid's Tale (MA) or the Diamond Age (NS) are good.
Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy is good - and definitely has a fairy-tale atmosphere.

Have fun

Answer 2

Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have put together a number of fantastic anthologies of adult fairytales. The titles:

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Black Thorn, White Rose
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Black Swan, White Raven
Snow White, Blood Red

(Pretty much anything either of those two women have ever touched is excellent, by the way.)

Though I think it appears in one of those titles, you might also want to read this spooky little Snow White story by Neil Gaiman: http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow.html (And again, many of his novels are fairy-tale like in nature; Neverwhere would be my first recommendation there).

A YA author I'd recommend would be Holly Black. And if you've got the stamina for it, Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is in the top five books I've read in my life.

ETA: If you want any more ideas, feel free to drop me a line. Modern fantasy is sort of my area of specialty...

Answer 3

Robin McKinley has written versions of Beauty and the Beast and Donkeyskin, as well as other great books. Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple are also doing a series of re-tellings of fairy stories. In a non-fiction genre you may be interested in a book by Peter and Iona Opie which gives the origins and early versions of some of our best known fairy tales, it is The Classic Fairy Tales

Answer 4

Margaret Atwood (some of her stuff is fairytale-like)
Neil Gaiman (amazing)
John Connolly (his last book is one long fairytale for adults)
Terry Pratchett - sort of - he's more of a parody than serious fiction, but very enjoyable.

Answer 5

i know of a comic book wrtiter that does a graphic novel about fairytales it is called fables and is done by vertigo comics

Answer 6

Trudie Canavan. Give her books a go, I love them.