Original Grimm and HC Andersen fairy tales?

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I saw these in Costco today, and am contemplating getting them for 15yo dd. She likes all sorts of literature, but one thing she doesn't like is horror.

Am I right in thinking that, while HCA fairy tales aren't quite as diabetes-inducing as modern versions, they aren't particularly nasty?

What about Grimm? I understand that they live up to their name, but are they truly horrific?

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The original tales are dark.
Sleeping beauty wakes up to find that she's given birth.
The Little Mermaid gets her tongue cut off and her feet bleeds with every step she takes. The ending is not a happy one either.
The red shoes is a cautionary tale about vanity and the heroine is punished in the most brutal way for it.
Cinderella's sisters are also disfigured in some way at the end of the story.

Those are ones I can remember from the top of my head and they are the original versions. Without seeing what version you have in mind, it's hard to say for certain whether it's suitable.

My most treasured book as a child was my mum's ancient volume of original Grimms Tales. I don't know though whether I loved it more because of the age of the book itself and the fact it contained flowers she had pressed as a little girl, or if I loved the stories - because I don't remember them being so gruesome that they scared me. They were definitely darker than the Disney versions but I used to get excited for my mum to read me one of them, and later to read them myself.

I read them to DS when he was little and he's not grown up particularly scarred by the tales either.