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Mar. 10th, 2006 10:11 pmI 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.
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.