In recent years, many beloved fairy tales or famous children's stories have been turned into horrors or slashers, like the ...

Thought fairy tales were all pampered princesses and happily-ever-afters? Think again. The original versions of some of our best-loved fairy tales are a far cry from their Disney-fied incarnations ...

was one of the early French fairy tale authors and actually popularized the term fairy tales (contes de fées in French). She published most of her fairy tales in 1697 and 1698. The 1690s, in ...

For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly required if she were to conceive successfully. In early modernity, uroscopy ...

The Marquee Children’s Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Youth Edition this Summer! This reimagined fairy tale is a magical musical filled with charm, ...

Well Rapunzel is a girl stuck in a castle and had long hair met a prince and then got married.

The modern fairy tale is a tricky thing ... Further thickening the haze, references to other tales are littered about, whether they be repurposed snatches of Greek myths and urban legends ...

Here are some stories a lot of us grew up with. First, “The Fisherman and His Wife.” You remember: A fisherman catches a flounder, and the fish says it is enchanted and pleads to be spared.

And some researchers argue that the great Danish writer who largely created the modern fairy tale genre used his ... No wonder I've been drawn to Andersen's tales long before realizing, as an ...