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So much fantasy relies on the author's having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White Goddess and nothing else.

— Elizabeth Hand

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There's always a moment when everything changes.

Generation Loss (2007)

He even taught himself to play the viole de gambols, a true sign of a man with too much time on his hands.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Truth is, often Lesley got the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)

I never mentioned it to anyone. No one else ever spoke of seeing it.

Generation Loss (2007)

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