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Adult fairy tales?

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DepthOfTheAbyss · 10/02/2022 00:32

I’ve seen variances on Beauty and the Beast and Rumplestiltskin in YA fiction. Does anyone know if there are any for adults?

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Redannie118 · 11/02/2022 11:02

Neil Gaimans done some great ones. Try snow, glass and apples. Or for a modern original fairy tale James Herberts Once is fabulous.

IThinkIMadeItWorse · 11/02/2022 10:35

I would highly recommend Uprooted and Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Both have a fairy tale/folklore kind of vibe and both excellent.

PenCreed · 11/02/2022 10:30

There are also some books which are aimed at an older audience which have a similar vibe to fairytales, or are based on fairytales. The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy by Katherine Arden is one that comes to mind.

IntermittentParps · 10/02/2022 13:42

I came on to say Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. She's the mistress of adult fairytales.
I also fairly recently read Hag, a collection of new tellings of old fairy/folk stories by different authors. It's variable, as anthologies can be, but there's some really interesting ones. Some are quite disturbing and frightening.

shivermetimbers77 · 10/02/2022 00:38

Try Angela Carter: ‘The Bloody Chamber’. A real classic.