19. Aubrette - This pretty name means "fair ruler of the little people." It originated in Germany. 20. Aurora - Means "dawn" ...

F airy tales have escaped the storybooks, and they are wilder than ever! What happens when fairy tales get a modern twist, a dark edge, or a thrilling mystery? Some series turn cl ...

An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never ...

Stephen King and Maurice Sendak — celebrated horror writer and the late children's book author-illustrator, respectively — have collaborated to create a new version of Hansel and Gretel, available ...

SINABADA — Elinor Mordaunt — Greystone ($2.75). Most autobiographies are marked by significant omissions. Elinor Mordaunt’s has at least two. The first: that Somerset Maugham once sued her ...

As Gemini author and academic Jack Zipes maintains, “Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.” ...

It is a cult classic, a crime book and an understated horror narrative, all about a brilliant man who constantly reinvents himself to evade the law. John Dolan Vincent is a talented forger with an ...

Blichtfeldt’s debut feature — which premiered at Sundance and will screen in the Panorama section at the Berlinale — reframes the classic fairy tale through the POV of Cinderella’s sibling ...

Her character’s undying spirit and resilience make it possible for the makers to term the film “a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world”. Even as the ...

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But those are the exceptions. For this fourth installment in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire revisited Gates’ classic book, with the benefit of three decades of hindsight. We found in its ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale. Photo: Marcel Zyskind The film begins with wide-eyed Elvira (Lea Myren ...