GARRY KILWORTH

Garry Kilworth lives in Essex, England. Since winning the Gollancz/Sunday Times short story competition in 1974 he has published sixteen novels, over eighty short stories, six children’s books, and some poetry. His most recent novels are Archangel, House of Tribes, and A Midsummer’s Nightmare. He and Robert Holdstock won the World Fantasy Award in 1992 for their novella, “The Rag-thorn.” Kilworth’s most recent collection of stories is In the Country of Tattooed Men.

Here Hansel and Gretel are realistically (perhaps too much so for comfort) portrayed as German peasant children who are either the perpetrators or victims of sorcery and greed.