The Green Man

by Ellen Datlow

  Carolyn M. Dunn is a Louisiana Creole whose indigenous ancestry includes Cherokee, Muscogee, and Seminole on her father’s side, and Choctaw and Tunica-Biloxi on her mother’s. Her work has been recognized by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers as Book of the Year for poetry, and by the Native American Music Awards.

  Dunn’s books include Outfoxing Coyote, Through the Eye of the Deer, Hozho: Walking in Beauty, Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World, Echolocation: Poems from Indian Country, L. A., and The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck. She is also a playwright, actor, and director; and is currently the artistic director for the Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company and Artist in Residence for Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. She lives with her daughters outside of Oklahoma City.

  Carol Emshwiller grew up in Michigan and France, and for many years divided her time between New York and California. Her stories have appeared in literary and science fiction magazines for over forty years, and have been published in a number of critically-acclaimed collections, including The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, In the Time of War and Other Stories of Conflict, and Master of the Road to Nowhere and Other Tales of the Fantastic. Emshwiller’s work has been honored with two Nebula Awards and a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She was also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two New York State literary grants. She died in 2019.

  Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, and Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell.

  Neil Gaiman is the New York Times–bestselling, Newbery Medal–winning author of The Graveyard Book. Several of his books, including Coraline, have been adapted into major motion pictures. American Gods has been made into a television miniseries by Starz. Gaiman is also famous for writing the Sandman graphic novel series, as well as numerous other books and comics for adult, young adult, and middle-grade readers. He has won Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards, among others. He is also the author of many short stories and poems. For more information, visit www.neilgaiman.com.

  Nina Kiriki Hoffman has sold adult and young adult novels, as well as more than three hundred short stories, over the past thirty years. Her works have been finalists for many major awards, and she has won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award. Hoffman’s novels have been published by Avon, Atheneum, Ace, Pocket, Scholastic, Tachyon, and Viking. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. For a complete list of publications featuring Hoffman’s work, visit ofearna.us/books/hoffman.html. Hoffman also does production work for Fantasy & Science Fiction, and teaches writing. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

  Kathe Koja’s novels and short fiction include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, the Under the Poppy Trilogy, and Christopher Wild. Velocities, Koja’s second short fiction collection, and Dark Factory, her latest novel, are upcoming in 2020. She creates events and teaches immersive fiction in Detroit, Michigan. Visit her at kathekoja.com or on Twitter and Facebook.

  Tanith Lee wrote nearly one hundred books and over 290 short stories, as well as radio plays and television scripts. Her genre-crossing includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, young adult, historical, detective, and contemporary fiction, plus combinations of them all. Some of her publications include the Lionwolf series—Cast a Bright Shadow, Here in Cold Hell, and No Flame But Mine—as well as the three Piratica novels for young adults. The most recent collection of her short fiction, Love in a Time of Dragons and Other Rare Tales, was published in 2019 by Immanion Press. In 2009, Lee was named a Grand Master by the World Horror Convention. She died in 2015.

  Bill Lewis is a poet, storyteller, and performance artist from Kent, England. He is a founding member of the Medway Poets group and the international Stuckism art movement. He also won the literature award at the 2012 Medway Culture and Design Awards. Lewis has two books of poems in print: In the House of Ladders and The Long Ago and Eternal Now. The first volume of his collected poems, This Love Like a Rage Without Anger: Poems 1975–2005, will be published this fall. Lewis is a member of Colony: A Community of Artists, with whom he has exhibited his paintings and prints.

  Gregory Maguire is the author of several novels for adults, including Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Lost. He has written more than a dozen novels for children, among them the popular Hamlet Chronicles series. His most recent novels are Egg & Spoon and Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker. A resident of Massachusetts, Maguire teaches creative writing, and lectures as a critic of children’s literature across the nation.

  Patricia A. McKillip is primarily known for her fantasy novels, and has published books for both adults and young adults. Among her most well-known young adult novels are The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and the Riddle-Master Trilogy. Her many fantasy novels for adults include Ombria in Shadow, Winter Rose, and The Bell at Sealey Head. She has won both a World Fantasy Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Her latest collection of short stories is entitled Dreams of Distant Shores, and her latest fantasy novel is Kingfisher. McKillip lives in Oregon with her husband, poet David Lunde.

  Delia Sherman writes stories and novels for younger readers and adults. Her most recent short stories have appeared in Mechanical Animals: Tales at the Crux of Creatures and Tech and Mad Hatters and March Hares. Sherman’s collection of short stories, Young Woman in a Garden, was published by Small Beer Press. She has written three novels for adults: Through a Brazen Mirror, The Porcelain Dove, and The Fall of the Kings (cowritten with Ellen Kushner). Her novels for younger readers include Changeling, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, and The Evil Wizard Smallbone. Her novel The Freedom Maze received Andre Norton, Mythopoeic Fantasy, and Prometheus Awards. When she’s not writing, Sherman spends her time teaching, editing, knitting, cooking, and traveling. Though her favorite place to be is on the road, she calls a rambling apartment in New York City home, with her spouse Ellen Kushner, and far too many pieces of paper.

  Midori Snyder, winner of both a World Fantasy Award and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, has published numerous fantasy novels for adults, young adults, and children. She also writes short stories, poetry, essays, and a popular blog on art and writing, In the Labyrinth. Her novels include The Innamorati (inspired by Italian myth and commedia dell’arte), Hannah’s Garden (a modern faerie novel for young adults), The Flight of Michael McBride (a historical faerie novel), and the Oran trilogy. Her most recently published novel, Except the Queen, is a collaborative novel cowritten with Jane Yolen. Snyder lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, and spends as much time as she can hiking in the mountains. For more information, please visit www.midorisnyder.com.

  Katherine Vaz, a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard and Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts recipient, has published two novels, Saudade and Mariana, the latter of which was translated into six languages and selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top Thirty International Books of 1998. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. The Love Life of an Assistant Animator & Other Stories was published by Tailwinds Press in 2017. Vaz has published many short stories, including some in anthologies for children. She lives in New York City with her husband, composer, writer, and television producer Christopher Cerf.

  Terri Windling is a writer, editor, painter, folklorist, and lifelong wanderer of forests both mythic and real. She has worked as a fiction editor in New York City, directed a mythic arts organization in Boston, and cofounded an arts retreat in the Arizona d
esert; and now writes and paints at the Bumblehill Studio in a small English village in Dartmoor.

  Windling has published over thirty previous anthologies (many of them coedited with Ellen Datlow), as well as fiction for adults and children, and nonfiction on folklore and myth. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and a Bram Stoker Award; and has been placed on the short lists for a Tiptree Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. In 2010, she received the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as a writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor. Visit her folklore and fantasy blog, Myth & Moor, at www.terriwindling.com.

  Jane Yolen has more than 376 books out as she writes this, and more by the time you read it. Her books and stories have won two Nebula Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, two Christopher Medals, a Jewish Book Award, a National Book Award nomination, the Regina Medal from the Catholic Library Association, and more citations for body of work than she can count. One of her awards set her good coat on fire.

  A Biography of Terri Windling

  Terri Windling is an award-winning writer and editor of fantasy, an essayist on the mythic arts, and a visual artist. She is the author or editor of bestselling books such as The Wood Wife, The Armless Maiden, the Snow White, Blood Red series, and the Bordertown series. She also contributed to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales and other nonfiction works on folklore and fantasy literature.

  Windling was raised in New Jersey and Pennyslvania, and moved to New York City after attending Antioch College in Ohio. She got a job as an editorial assistant at Ace Books at a time, she found, when the field of fantasy was a wide-open, upstart genre. Windling worked as an editor in New York throughout the 1980s, while also establishing the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts in Boston in 1986. In 1990, she began to divide her time between a winter home in Tucson, Arizona, and a summer home in Devon, England. It was at this point that she began to focus on her own writing and painting, while continuing to edit part-time. She has written or edited over forty books, including adult and young adult fiction, anthologies, essays, and children’s books. She has frequently co-edited anthologies with renowned editor Ellen Datlow, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series, in which she published such important writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Stephen King, A. S. Byatt, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others. She serves as an editorial consultant for Tor Books and works widely with other major book publishers. Windling is also founder and was the co-editor of the Journal of Mythic Arts from 1997 to 2008.

  Windling has received multiple awards in the field of fantasy literature, including the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field, nine World Fantasy awards, the Mythopoeic Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. She was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and made the short list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, among others.

  Windling is also a visual artist whose mythically themed work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, Great Britain, and France.

  Windling currently resides in a small village on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, with her husband, Howard Gayton, and their daughter, Victoria Windling-Gayton.

  Terri Windling was born in December 1958 to a young single mother. To escape her often volatile home life, Windling found solace in fairy tales and fantasy. This picture was taken in Pitman, New Jersey.

  Windling was in her early twenties when she began working as an editor and anthologist. Here she attends the World Fantasy Convention in 1982, when she won her first of nine World Fantasy awards. (Photograph courtesy of Beth Gwinn.)

  Windling at the Fourth Street Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis in 1987, where she was the Editor Guest of Honor. (Photograph courtesy of Beth Gwinn.)

  From 1990 to 2008, Windling divided her time between a winter home in Tucson, Arizona, and a summer home in Devon, England. Here, she is photographed with Ellen Datlow at the World Fantasy Convention in Tucson in 1991. (Photograph courtesy of Beth Gwinn.)

  In Tuscon, Windling lived surrounded by the Rincon Mountains. Here, she is pictured on a desert path in the foothills, in autumn 1996. This was the setting for her novel The Wood Wife, published that same year, which won the Mythopoeic Award. (Photograph courtesy of Carol Amos.)

  Windling’s summer home was a 400-year-old cottage in a small village on Dartmoor in Devon, England. (Photograph courtesy of Alan Lee.)

  In 2008, Windling married the English dramatist Howard Gayton and settled in Devon, England, fulltime. (Photograph courtesy of Ellen Kushner.)

  Windling’s husband is a theater director, performer, and founder of Ophaboom Theatre, specializing in Commedia dell’Arte. The couple is pictured here in Devon. (Photograph courtesy of K. Marchant.)

  Windling and Howard Gayton celebrate their wedding anniversary by following the old Devon marriage custom of “jumping the broom.” This picture of Terri, with their beloved dog, Tilly, was taken in their garden in Devon in September 2011. (Photograph courtesy of Howard Gayton.)

  Windling’s paintings are inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tales from around the world. This painting is based on “Little Red Riding Hood.”

  A portrait of Windling and her dog, Tilly, created by her friend and neighbor, the book illustrator David Wyatt.

  A portrait of Windling by writer and photographer Augusten Burroughs, taken in New York City in 2012.

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  These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright 1940 (renewed 1968), 1942 (renewed 1969), 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1971 by The Pearl S. Buck Family Trust. Illustrations and introduction copyright 1973 by The Pearl S. Buck Family Trust

  “Preface” © Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, 2002

  “Introduction” ©Terri Windling, 2002

  “Going Wodwo” © Neil Gaiman, 2002

  “Grand Central Park” © Delia Sherman, 2002

  “Daphne” © Michael Cadnum, 2002

  “Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box” © Charles de Lint, 2002

  “Among the Leaves So Green” © Tanith Lee, 2002

  “Song of the Cailleach Bheur” © Jane Yolen, 2002

  “Hunters Moon” © Patricia A. McKillip, 2002

  “Charlie’s Away” © Midori Snyder, 2002

  “A World Painted by Birds” © Katherine Vaz, 2002

  “Grounded” © Nina Kiriki Hoffman, 2002

  “Overlooking” © Carol Emshwiller, 2002

  “Fee, Fie, Foe, et Cetera” © Gregory Maguire, 2002

  “Joshua Tree” © Emma Bull, 2002

  “Ali Anugne O Chash (The Boy Who Was)” © Carolyn Dunn, 2002

  “Remnants” © Kathe Koja, 2002

  “The Pagodas of Ciboure” © M. Shayne Bell, 2002

  “Green Men” © Bill Lewis, 2002

  “The Green Word” © Jeffrey Ford, 2002

  Cover designed by: Amanda Shaffer

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-6038-7

  This edition published in 2020 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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