by Fairy Tale Review | Nov 6, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Books
We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations, all from The Ochre Issue. Poetry: Christopher Citro, “We’re Actually Fabulous” Laura Grothaus, “Pinocchio Revisited” Rebecca Perea-Kane, “The Kunstkamera, St....
by Fairy Tale Review | Oct 14, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files
Most of us know about “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”—the adorable little girl, the bowls of porridge, the chairs, the beds, finding the one that is “just right”—but older versions of the tale carry a certain additional grittiness. What we know as a young woman is...
by Fairy Tale Review | Oct 7, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Miscellany
Interspecies romances, or animal brides and bridegrooms, are a staple of fairy tales. Often, the animal object of affection is actually a human who has been transformed, and this animal guise unsurprisingly makes romance difficult. Above: An interspecies courtship in...
by Fairy Tale Review | Sep 30, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files
In the tale of “Babes in the Wood” (first appearing in 1595), a brother and sister whose parents have died are left in the care of their uncle. The uncle devises a plot to steal their inheritance—he hires two criminals to take the children in the woods and murder...
by Fairy Tale Review | Sep 23, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Miscellany
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 between childhood friends Gerda and Kay is threatened when Kay receives a splinter of the mirror in his eye and becomes...
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