Mar. 10th, 2006

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I don't remember how or when I found "No Rest For the Wicked," but I know it was last night that I went poking around the FAQ and found links to lots of new-to-me fairytales.

Also check out "The Juniper Tree" and "The Robber Bridegroom," two favorites of mine, both of which were in an illustrated book of fairytales my parents had for some reason - I mean, it included these two, so it couldn't have been for reading to children. It was "the almond tree" in that edition, but it still involved a wicked stepmother cooking a child up and serving him to his father in a stew. I don't remember when I found that, either, but my interest in dark, fucked-up fairytales really stems from that and not from my reading of Neil Gaiman (though a version of "The Robber Bridegroom" appears in Smoke and Mirrors, I think.) Here's a link to the illustrator's work, too, though it doesn't have many of the black-and-white illustrations from the book I've got.

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