Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World

"Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen" opens the doorway to a fantastic world of fairy tales, a world of mischievous maids, wily women, enchantresses, midwives, and crones. Here is a treasure trove of tales that could only have been collected by the celebrated Angela Carter, whom Salman Rushdie called the "high sorceress" and the "benevolent witch queen" of English literature.