The Essential Bordertown

World Fantasy Award-winning editor, artist, and writer Terri Windling created this world, fantasys biggest names contribute original stories set there. Included are major works from Charles de Lint, Steven Brust, Patricia A. McKillip, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Caroline Stevermer, and seven others.

Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. She has won six World Fantasy awards for her editorial work and the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. She has edited over thirty anthologies, many in collaboration with Ellen Datlow--including the Snow White, Blood Red adult fairy-tale series, The Armless Maiden, Sirens, The Green Man, and Swan Sister. She has also written children's books and articles on myth and folklore, and she edits the Endicott Studio Online Journal of Mythic Arts website. She divides her time between homes in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona. Delia Sherman is a highly acclaimed fantasy writer. She lives in Boston and New York.

"Irresistible: this is what the universe ought to be like."--Interzone

"There isn't a weak story in the book."--Vector

"The stories are personal ones, not epic stories with empires or worlds in the balance. A rock 'n' roll atmosphere pervades the stories. there is something about a punked-out, mohawked el in a leather jacket that shatters the Tolkien mold, that allows the characters to be different, to be apart from the previous mythologies....The chronicles of the Borderlands are heartily recommended."--Different Worlds