Grimm Retold
So Dark and So Grimm
Stories from Tanith Lee, Ef Deal, Carol Gyzander, and Tiffany Morris as well as Lindsay Comer, Eleanor Cooke, F. Ffrench, Ephiny Gale, J.R. Harlow, Ell Huang , Jade Jiao, TT Madden, David Kenneth Mitchell, Nico Martinez Nocito, Elizabeth Rosen, Erica Ruppert, Liv Strom, M. Weigel, Jacqueline West and Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
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.
Twenty stories and poems, from twenty authors, retell classic fairy tales; their teeth on the anxious pulse that has always flickered from the hearts of Grimm’s collections.
Rapunzel, Snow White, Cinderella The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Fisherman’s Wife, The Robber Bridegroom, Red Riding Hood, The Old Beggar Woman, Hansel and Gretel, The Girl with No Hands, The Willful Child, The Pied Piper, The Nixie of Mill Pond, Blue Beard, Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Crystal Ball, The Juniper Tree, The Frog Prince, Fitcher’s Bird, and Rumpelstiltskin.
Be warned; Grimm stories have never been so dark.
Reviews and News
“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 Wendy, Darling
“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
“This is quite the collection of tales. The classic tales are readily recognizable, but then the twists take hold and bring you a different tale, dark and surprising, like the classic Grimm's before they have been sanitized as we know them. Then we have some original tales with the kernels of what a good fairytale has, again twisted into gripping darkness with mysterious endings. These are not for children at all, but if you like deep, dark, twisted, mysterious stories than this book is for you!”
-Goodreads Review