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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moofolk · 26/05/2022 11:55

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.

It's a trilogy?!?!

I read the bear and the nightingale it was sooo beautiful.

littlepeas · 28/05/2022 17:15

I had to stop reading the Bloody Chamber as I found it so disturbing! I knew the story it was based on already, so knew what was coming, but it really got to me for some reason (scared walking around my house at night level of frightened by it).

Do you mean Grimm style fairytales reimagined or new stories that are like fairy stories? If the latter - Stardust (Gaiman), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or the Ladies of Grace Adieu (both Susanna Clarke).

Badqueen · 28/05/2022 17:18

Uprooted is a stunning book.

CuteOrangeElephant · 28/05/2022 19:42

New world fairy tales by Cassandra Parkin is a great collection of short stories.

TheJubileeLion · 28/05/2022 19:44

Kate Atkinson's Not The End Of The World retells Ovid's Metamorphoses through a modern lens - not quite fairy tales but similar sort of magical realism feel.

SisterAgatha · 28/05/2022 19:48

Terry Jones of Monty Python does some fantastic ones. My fave is the Corn Dolly (and of course, he wrote Labyrinth with David Bowie)

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