What if every fairy tale you heard as a child was just one part of the story? What if another version was more realistic and perhaps a bit more wild? Would you want to read it? Of course you would; we ...

Thought fairy tales were all pampered princesses and happily-ever-afters? Think again. The original versions of some of our best-loved fairy tales are a far cry from their Disney-fied incarnations ...

Oddly Modern Fairy Tales is a series dedicated to publishing unusual literary fairy tales produced mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. International in scope, the series includes ...

Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...

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These stories feature questions about robot personhood, journeys into enchanted forests and much more.

Flipping these cultural clichés on its face is, And they lived…ever after, an anthology of 13 fairy tales, retold by women ...

Book cover of Kimberly J. Lau, Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024), courtesy Wayne State University Press Racial beliefs, the book suggests ...

True fairy tales were never for the faint-hearted ... quickly knocked out of the park after only the first story in this book. Wicked wives, resourceful children, evil parents and murderers ...

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...