PREFACE
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
INTRODUCTION: SHAPE-SHIFTERS, WERE-CREATURES, AND BEASTLY SUITORS
Terri Windling
ISLAND LAKE
E. Catherine Tobler
THE PUMA’S DAUGHTER
Tanith Lee
1: THE BRIDE
2: THE MARRIAGE
3: THE WIFE
4: THE BEAST
MAP OF SEVENTEEN
Christopher Barzak
THE SELKIE SPEAKS
Delia Sherman
BEAR’S BRIDE
Johanna Sinisalo[3]
THE ABOMINABLE CHILD’S TALE
Carol Emshwiller
THE HIKIKOMORI
Hiromi Goto
THE COMEUPPANCE OF CREEGUS MAXIN
Gregory Frost
GANESHA
Jeffrey Ford
THE ELEPHANT’S BRIDE
Jane Yolen
THE CHILDREN OF CADMUS
Ellen Kushner
THE WHITE DOE: THREE POEMS
Jeannine Hall Gailey
THE WHITE DOE MOURNS HER CHILDHOOD
THE WHITE DOE’S LOVE SONG
THE WHITE DOE DECIDES
COYOTE AND VALOROSA
Terra L. Gearhart-Serna
ONE THIN DIME
Stewart Moore
THE MONKEY BRIDE
Midori Snyder
PISHAACH
Shweta Narayan
THE SALAMANDER FIRE
Marly Youmans
THE MARGAY’S CHILDREN
Richard Bowes
THIMBLERIGGERY AND FLEDGLINGS
Steve Berman
THE FLOCK
Lucius Shepard
THE CHILDREN OF THE SHARK GOD
Peter S. Beagle
ROSINA
Man Fry
FURTHER READING
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
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