Troll's Eye View by Ellen Datlow

A Book of Villains

A collection of short stories that retell familiar fairy tales and folktales from the perspectives of the villains, flipping familiar narratives to reveal their motives, regrets, and justifications; the anthology collects diverse voices that range from darkly comic to hauntingly sympathetic, probing the moral ambiguity behind classic conflicts and challenging readers to see familiar characters and myths in a new, unsettling light.