All the original Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales are splendidly dark and twisted. In fact, Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother actually plays a prominent role in the first arc of Oberon.

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Like Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and the Oscar-winning cartoon Spirited Away, ... Dark but brilliant, this very scary fairy tale. by CHRIS TOOKEY. Last updated at 13:59 24 November 2006.

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So many of the primal and cautionary elements within fairy tales are addressed or subverted by Angela Carter in The Bloody Chamber, a 1979 collection of stories inspired by folk tales.In the title ...

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The dark tenor of the Grimms’ fairy tales is almost a punch line at this point, and their surname, which means “wrathful” in German, hasn’t helped.