Introduction : the state of modern fairy tales / Joseph Abbruscato
"Something like you, something like a beast" : Gothic convention and fairy tale elements in David Almond's Skellig / Carys Crossen
"Baby and I were baked in a pie" : cannibalism and the consumption of children in young adult literature / Tanya Jones
Orson Scott Card's Ender's game : authoring home in fairyland / Erin Wyble Newcomb
Being nobody : identity in Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book / Joseph Abbruscato
"She would not think of it" : surviving incest in Robin McKinley's Deerskin / Sarah R. Wakefield
"Transform, and twist, and change" : deconstructing Coraline / Lisa K. Perdigao
"Comparatively innocent" : the terrible search for nobility in A series of unfortunate events / Tim Sadenwasser
Earning the right to wear midnight : Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching / Eileen Donaldson
"Monstrosity will be called for" : Holly Black's and Melissa Marr's urban Gothic fairy tale heroines / Rhonda Nicol
Reading in the dark : narrative reframing in the Unheimlich underworld of Merrie Haskell's The princess curse / Carissa Turner Smith.
