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Title details for Into the Forest by various authors - Available

Into the Forest

Tales of the Baba Yaga

by various authors
Lindy Ryan
Audiobook
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A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by the Baba Yaga, featuring Gwendolyn Kiste, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Mercedes M. Yardley, Monique Snyman, Donna Lynch, Lisa Quigley, and R. J. Joseph, with a foreword by Christina Henry.

Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds' legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the baba yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the baba yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch—and these are her tales.

Edited by Lindy Ryan, this collection brings together some of today's leading voices of women-in-horror as they pay tribute to the baba yaga, and go Into the Forest.

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  • Release date

    November 8, 2022

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798212256643
      • File size: 231699 KB
      • Duration: 08:02:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 1, 2022
      Ryan (Throw Me to the Wolves, written with Christopher Brooks) brings together 23 dark, feminist fairy tales exploring the folkloric figure of Baba Yaga. The eerily cheerful tone of Gwendolyn Kiste’s Stepford Wives–esque “Last Tour into the Hungering Moonlight” spirals into something more desperate and erratic as the housewives of an apparently perfect neighborhood succumb to Baba Yaga’s pull. An unloved princess finds revenge and salvation through Baba Yaga in “Of Moonlight and Moss” by Sara Tantlinger, while the heroine of R.J. Joseph’s “Where the Horizon Meets the Sky” joins the witch to escape her husband’s ghost. In EV Knight’s timely standout “Stork Bites,” a young woman in need of an illegal abortion seeks out Baba Yaga. Many of these stories take place in the ambiguous, “long ago” era of fairy tales, but some—like Donna Lynch’s “Flood Zone” and Jacqueline West’s “Fair Trade”—transpose the legend into the present day. The least successful of these is “Baba Yaga Learns to Shave, Gets Her Period, Then Grows into Her Own” by Jess Hagemann, which lacks the eerie atmosphere that makes the other stories work. “Water Like Broken Glass” by Carina Bissett, meanwhile, delivers a wonderfully queer update to the tale against the backdrop of WWII. Fans of folklore retellings will find plenty to enjoy.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This audiobook includes 23 reimagined tales of the fabled Slavic witch Baba Yaga who can manifest in many forms. Each story is narrated by one of seven performers who carry listeners through a multitude of places and times. Both timely and timeless, the collection is enhanced by this stellar production. Whether a stereotypical crone, a misunderstood witch forced into hiding, or a misguided young woman, Baba Yaga is given a voice befitting the story. By capturing the intricacies of the characters through accents and tones, each narrator showcases her talents and breathes life into her story, drawing one deeper into the forests of the mythological witch of the woods. A magical production for fans of fairy tales and folklore. A.L.S.M. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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