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The practice of retelling fairy tales in the form of literary fiction is, if not quite hallowed, certainly established. The great Angela Carter’s revelatory 1979 story collection, “The Bloody Chamber” — a brocaded work of heady sensuality, intelligence and violence — remains the benchmark, but Kate Bernheimer’s Fairy Tale Review and the several excellent Bernheimer-edited anthologies spun off from it carry the standard forward. Those are just some of the more overt homages; Western literature owes as much to fairy tales as it does to Greek myth and the Bible. 

 

-The New York Times

Three Enter the Dark Wood

From the Archives, Poetry | by Lesley Jenike | Oct 3, 2018

It’s the one about the bears and their blonde:
In their many beds I left many cells,
called my multiple personalities down

‘D’ & ‘G’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Claire Wahmanholm | Sep 26, 2018

D is for dragon and damsel, diamond and diadem. For deciduous woods, their dropping leaves.

In Which Hansel Is Gretel and Gretel Is Hansel

From the Archives, Prose | by Brandi Wells | Sep 19, 2018

This hurts a lot, but it’s true. It is astral projection gone wrong.

Fairy-Tale Files: Babes in the Wood

Fairy-Tale Files | by Gretchen Steele Pratt | Sep 30, 2016

Once in the woods, the criminals chicken out and simply abandon the children

Special Report: The Snow Queen

Fairy-Tale Miscellany | by Lo Kwa Mei-En | Sep 23, 2016

In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” there is a mirror that distorts the world into extremes of beauty and ugliness. The wholesome love...

Special Report: Some Enchanted Evening

Fairy-Tale Miscellany | by Sara Veglahn | Sep 16, 2016

The version of Sleeping Beauty with which most people are familiar is most likely the  Brothers Grimm tale, “Little Briar Rose,” and/or the 1959...

The Winners of the 2016 Fairy Tale Review Awards

Contests | Sep 14, 2016

The editors of Fairy Tale Review are pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our third annual contests in both prose and poetry. Each...

Fairy-Tale Files: Talking Wooden Dolls

Fairy-Tale Files | by Shelley Puhak | Sep 9, 2016

In the Slavic fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” a dying mother gives her young daughter Vasilisa a wooden doll. The mother tells Vasilisa: “When...

Fairy-Tale Files: Bald Boy

Fairy-Tale Files | by Ayşe Papatya Bucak | Sep 2, 2016

In many a Turkish tale, Keloğlan, or Bald Boy, is a follicly-challenged country boy, who either bumbles or connives his way to good fortune. In some...

Fairy-Tale Files: Swan Masquerade

Fairy-Tale Files | Aug 26, 2016

When Bjork came to the Academy Awards in 2001 and walked down the red carpet dressed in a swan costume, cameras flashed, people gasped. Swan...

Special Report: Faceless Men, Monsters, and Noppera-bō

Fairy-Tale Miscellany | Aug 19, 2016

The figure of the faceless monster is common in horror and fantasy. You can find several variations in the Silent Hill movie series: the Armless Man...

Fairy-Tale Files: Woebegotten Walls

Fairy-Tale Files | Aug 12, 2016

In Oscar Wilde’s 1888 tale “The Selfish Giant,” a giant returns to his castle to find children playing in his garden. Angry, he declares, "‘My own...

Special Report: Lean In or Fall Down

Fairy-Tale Miscellany | Aug 5, 2016

The “The Red Shoes,” written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1845, is a story of sin and redemption, as are many of Andersen’s stories. His female...

Fairy-Tale Files: Hybridity

Fairy-Tale Files | Jul 29, 2016

Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...

Fairy-Tale Files: Bizarre Homes & Gardens

Fairy-Tale Files | Jul 22, 2016

Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...

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