Grimm Retold - Hardcover

Lee, Tanith

 
9798986887975: Grimm Retold

Inhaltsangabe

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 the Mill Pond, Blue Beard, Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Crystal Ball, The Juniper Tree, The Frog Prince, Fitcher's Bird, and Rumpelstiltskin. With stories from Tanith Lee, Ef Deal, Carol Gyzander, 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 be warned; Grimm stories have never been so dark.

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Tanith Lee was an award-winning British author celebrated for her imaginative contributions to fantasy, science fiction, horror, and dark fantasy literature. Known for her lyrical prose, gothic atmosphere, and richly imaginative worlds, Lee authored more than ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. Her fiction frequently explored themes of mythology, identity, gender, transformation, and psychological complexity. A recipient of multiple genre honors, including the World Fantasy Award, Tanith Lee remains an influential voice in fantasy fiction, feminist speculative literature, gothic storytelling, and modern mythic fiction.

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