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Thorns

Tanith Lee

First published January 1983
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"A wandering prince who has lost his birthright comes to a deserted city. There he meets the Oldest One, who tells him of the curse that caused the palace to be covered in thorns." —<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.daughterofthenight.com">Daughter of the Night bibliography</a>

First published in Young Winter's Tales 3, ed. M. R. Hodgkin, London: Macmillan, 1972.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1983 Cover Red As Blood or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer DAW Books Collection 38
January 1983 Cover Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Collection 38
March 1983 Cover Red As Blood (or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer) DAW Books / SFBC Collection 29
1984 Cover Totentanz Bastei LĂĽbbe Anthology |6
October 1989 Cover Cyrion Meulenhoff Collection 187
May 2001 Cover Sortilèges Éditions de l'Oxymore Anthology 86
August 2014 Cover Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer Wildside Press Collection |29
September 2014 Cover Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer Wildside Press Collection
January 2024 Claidi Journals Series & More MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |14.038