Grown-Up Fairy Tales
The fairy tales you loved as kid have been a source of inspiration for hundreds of writers. Their mature retellings of these classic stories range from the romantic to the thrilling to the positively frightening.
The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block (Y)
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce (Y)
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Silver Birch, Blood Moon, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling
Tam
Lin by Pamela Dean
Jack the Giant Killer by Charles DeLint
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue (Y)
Wickedly Charming by Kristine Grayson
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Y)
White As Snow by Tanith Lee
Wicked
by Gregory Maguire
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Beauty
by Robin McKinley
Mr.
Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente
My Mother She Killed Me,
My Father He Ate Me
