Grimm Retold: A Collection of Dark Grimm Fairy Tales

Speculation Publications is proud to announce the release of their fifth anthology GRIMM RETOLD: A Collection of Dark Grimm Fairy Tales edited by LCW Allingham and River Eno on September 24, 2024.

The glossy veneer of happily ever after has fooled readers into believing fairy tales are bright and happy stories; but if you scratch the surface of any story collected by the Brothers Grimm, it bleeds. Manipulation and Murder, Tension and Torture. Grimm Retold cracks open the horror splattered between the pages of the old stories to reveal the thriving darkness within these classic tales.

Grimm Retold is a horror anthology retelling classic Grimm Fairy Tales. With a foreword by Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Grimm Retold has twenty stories and poems, from twenty different authors including the late great Tanith Lee, Carol Gyzander, Ef Deal, Tiffany Morris and many more. 

“Perfectly dark and perfectly lovely. This collection reclaims the grimmest bits of Grimm, and makes them the star of each of these tales - told afresh for new audiences, but with a distinctly classical feel.” - A.C. Wise, Author of Hooked and Wendy, Darling

“Thank you to all the authors who have created this book. Phenomenal retelling of the well-known Brother Grimm fairytales. This collection is so much darker than even the original tales were. It's an adult only collection. Full of spice and gore to the extreme. Lovers of Splatterpunk are in for a real treat.” – Goodreads Review

“These are not your rehashed, tired childhood bedtime stories. Intensely dark and twisted, Grimm Retold turns the fairytales we know inside out.”

-Amanda Headlee, Author of Till We Become Monsters and Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face

Available worldwide in paperback, ebook and hardback through Speculation Publication’s website: Speculationpub.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, and anywhere books and Ebooks are sold. 

Cover Art by LCW Allingham

Original Illustrations by Brian Lally