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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

The Winners of the 2019 Flash Fairy Tale Contest

Contests, Fairy Tale Review News | by The FTR Mice | Mar 6, 2019

On February 26, 2019, we asked our Twitter followers to tell us the biggest and most beautiful stories they could within Twitter's longer, and more...

Diptych: The Bunch, Your Duck/Dog

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Katharine Haake | Feb 13, 2019

One day, we came home from a walk in the woods and found something waiting for us. It wasn’t a this, or a that, or a they; it was a bunch.

‘Mollie & Lobo Wolf Girl’ & ‘Notes on the Tower’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by H.R. Webster | Jan 30, 2019

you are always
walking me
into canyons

at dusk…

Merpeople & the Danger of Men

Fairy-Tale Files | by Shelley Wong | Feb 24, 2017

She becomes endangered when an obsessed scientist starts tracking her, determined to prove that mermaids exist.

A Serpent in Human Shape

Fairy-Tale Files | by Jonathan Louis Duckworth | Feb 17, 2017

The principal villains for the first eight seasons are the Goa’uld, parasitic alien snakes

Fairy-Tale Files: How Loneliness Hurts

Fairy-Tale Files | by Joel Hans | Feb 3, 2017

Is loneliness worth it, then, if it sometimes leads to great works of art?”

Fairy-Tale Files: The Secret to Old Age is… Necromancy?

Fairy-Tale Files | by Joel Hans | Jan 27, 2017

This tale about everybody having to die doesn’t set too well with me.

All the Princesses

Fairy-Tale Miscellany | by Connie Voisine | Jan 24, 2017

In the anorexia ward, otherwise known as the Island of Sad Princessess, she was the youngest

Fairy-Tale Files: Cryptographer’s Delight

Fairy-Tale Files | by Jon Riccio | Jan 20, 2017

King of the uncharactered, the Voynich manuscript takes cipher sleuthing to velum-unraveling heights. Antiquarian Wilfred Voynich purchased it from...

Suddenly

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Carmen Giménez Smith | Jan 17, 2017

Suddenly is canon in folklore the way it’s canon in truth: the world changes.

Fairy-Tale Files: The Practicality of a Gargoyle

Fairy-Tale Files | by Jon Riccio | Jan 13, 2017

The phrase “Gothic church umbrella” doesn’t convey grotesquery, yet this was the gargoyle’s original purpose, their spouted heads diverting...

Fairy-Tale Files: The Flies

Fairy-Tale Files | by Jon Riccio | Jan 6, 2017

Unlikely to star in a fairy tale anytime soon, flies nonetheless play a role in the Grimm Brothers’ “The Brave Little Tailor.” A breakfast...

Fairy-Tale Files: The Storytime Reptilian

Fairy-Tale Files | by Jon Riccio | Dec 30, 2016

No tour of fictional turtles is complete without mention of the Chinese Bixi

The Field

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Jayme Russell | Dec 27, 2016

nothing moves
let white rush in
the eyes,
still
in the display
once

Call for Submissions: The Charcoal Issue

Calls for Submissions | by The Editors | Dec 24, 2016

We have decided to dedicate The Charcoal Issue to fairy tales as forms of resistance and protest.

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