Audio: The Lady in Glass by Anne Bishop

Narrated by: Alexandra Harris, Gary Littman

Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 02-27-24 by Penguin Audio

Urban fantasy&fantasy&fairytale/from audible

The Lady and the Glass - A weird tale about humanity that seems to have gone wrong and they find a woman in a glass coffin and stare at her beauty

Bear Trap - It was short, but good. A girl is taken and put in a bear trap.

Not A Princess - A witch wants to be a princess, but it was more about the kid she tried to make into one

The Weapon - About war and being cannon fodder

Hotting Fuggam and the Dragon - A nice little tale about a stranger coming to town and a girl trying to deal with him

Tunnel - This is why I should write reviews for short stories at once cos I do not remember this one

Match Girl - This one I remember because it was a hard listen. It deals with SA, abuse and more. A very very dark and sad fairytale

Rapunzel - Another Rapunzel story and how she came to be

The Wild Heart - Sleeping beauty and another one with a trigger warning. Things go dark

The Fairest One of All - Again, when I listen to many at once some blend in to each other and I only remember the stepmom dying

By the Time the Witchblood Blooms-Which one was this? I remember smex?

The Khaldharon Run - I am just not a Black Jewels fan

The Price - I actually enjoyed this one. Huh. A woman solves a few murders

The Voice - Trigger warning of SA again. Another dark and disturbing one. How one girl in the village is without a voice and takes on other´s feelings, even when she does not want to. And how one girl grows up realising how wrong this is. Good, but yes dark

Home for the Howlidays - Meg and Simon! And the holidays, and danger

The Dark Ship - I have read this one before, but it a good one that takes place in the world of The Others, but in Cal Romano

Friends and Corpses- A freaky place where the dead do not know they are dead so Cecily hunts them down. Throw in a mystery

Truth and Story - Not remembering

Stands A God Within the Shadows - A woman in a tower, why is she there? The story unfolds

She Moved Through The Fair - A ghost story, and someone wants money....

A Strand in the Web - An interesting sci-fi one where spaceships are out fixing worlds to atone, and one girl is stuck on a ship that is failing.

Some are better than other ones, some are a LOT darker than other ones. Some are funny, some are sad. You know, like every anthology out there. Bishop is a great writer so even those dark sad ones are really good. Even if they make you sick to your stomach.

I totally wanted this one for the Simon and Meg story, but even if I liked that one so many other ones shone through.

Great narration, it does have Alexandra Harris too!

A master of bringing fantasy worlds to life, this collection showcases Bishop’s impressive range, from rarities of her earliest writing to the Realms of the Blood, from darker fairytale retellings to the Landscapes of Ephemera, and from standalone stories of space exploration and fantastical creatures to the contemporary fantasy terrain of the World of the Others.

Includes previously published and unpublished tales, as well as two brand-new stories, written especially for this “Friends and Corpses,” a murder mystery in which the corpse has some decidedly unusual qualities, and “Home for the Howlidays,” a heartwarming return to the Blood Prophet Meg Corbyn and the shapeshifting Simon Wolfgard from The Others.