So many stories among which my favourites would be "The Printer's Daughter", "The Fox Wife" and "Billy Fearless". Why? Because the first is really a very touching story of a man's desire for companionship, resulting in a magical being made of paper and ink, and the capacity of love for that being in a short 3 days, the worries and concern for the loss of it and finally the friendship brought about on the "death" of it. The second would be because of the paranormal aspect and because such an Asian tale is closer to home, having read a number of such fox spirit stories when young, it simply brings back memories. Lastly, =), I root for the underdog, a tale of a simple boy with nothing to his name, sets out to make his way in life and ended up rich and with a pretty maid for his wife, a heartwarming story which incidentally I had read before, so again the memories are nice.

As for the other stories, a few I have read before, some I don't really comprehend, others are downright scary horror tales such as "Match Girl" and "The Real Princess", some sad, like "The Crossing" and "The Printer's Daughter" and "Masterpiece" which portrays some of the Seven Sins extremely well and the funny one "Roach in Loafers" which brought the movie "Joe's Apartment" to mind rather than "Puss in Boots".

"Hansel and Grettal" in this anthology seemed too worldly-wise and I am not too fond of them here. I read another take about them in Garth Nix's anthology "Across The Wall" just a few days ago and there I really enjoyed his imagination because the ending reminded me of a certain Goblin King with one blue and one green eye which would make another fabulous story if I can figure out how to connect them. =)

I really enjoyed this series edited by Ms Datlow and Ms Windling and hope to read more of the same.