The door that wasn't there -- Hansa the traveler -- The clockwork bride -- Jenny and the night women -- The skinned maiden -- Alice-three-times -- The house under the stairwell -- Ilsa waits -- The sea cellar -- The mother and the dagger -- Twice-killed Katherine -- Death and the woodwife. In this companion book to "The Hazel Wood" and "The Night Country," the author presents a collection of dark fairy tales by Alice's reclusive grandmother Althea Proserpine.

1. Fairy tales -- United States.; 2. Fairy tales.; 3. Short stories, American.; 4. Imaginary places -- Juvenile fiction.;