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From ‘Stardust’ to Bloody Chambers: 3 Amazing Modern Fairy Tales for Adults
Slip into the strange light of another world. You might come back safely.
“True fairy tales have a certain mood to them, a certain power that I cannot describe as anything else but wonder.” — Addison Lucci, modern fairy tale expert.
Fairy tales are the realm of magic, where the ordinary meets the extraordinary. They’re places of wondrous transformations, fairy kingdoms and happy endings. They’re also often quite gruesome: fairy tales — or folk tales, before they were written down — used to be for adults until the Brothers Grimm altered them for 19th-century children.
Now, thank goodness, fairy tales are inspiring modern literature.
Our fist author makes gleeful use of both the ruthlessness and innocence of fairy tales. The other two delve deeper into the darker, surreal layers of this ancient form of storytelling.
Their writing is magic itself.
