Probably best as a coffee table book for the occasional pickup and journey into the land of the strange. While a large portion of these fairy-tales are extremely funny and silly, there's also a lingering sense of the macabre hiding between these pages.

Just as any number of aspects of these stories, these concluding phrases are flourishes that come from the voices of the individual story tellers and we should admire them for their differences, rather than making any fruitless effort to group them all together. I read this book years back, before the recent craze for fairy tales began, and remember thinking that it was true to the original form, fairy tales were never intended to be a bedtime story, unless we parents meant our children to have horrible nightmares.It is definitely a "that's so random" quality that I like about them, the sense that the palette of things that can happen is so much wider relative to the familiar tropes of the form than in other genres. No obstante, me gustó más otro libro que leí de la autora el año pasado, La cámara sangrienta, que sí tenía relatos originales escritos por ella, retellings siniestros.

Lo tenía todo para gustarme, así que tardé poco en hacerme con él y por fin le he hecho hueco para leerlo. Oubliez les gentilles versions de Disney, ici les fées sont plutôt des démons, les morales sont parfois (souvent) douteuses, les contes très intriguant voire, même parfois incompréhensibles et, les personnages tous plus bizarres les uns que les autres. Angela reivindica, Angela exige con la misma fuerza y determinación con la que trabajó en esta recopilación hasta los últimos días de su vida, ingresada en el hospital.A chest of riches' TLS 'Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' Observer 'A spicy collection of folk stories' Independent on Sunday 'A marvellous new anthology' TES 'A superb (and beautifully produced) anthology' Irish Times 'A winner, full of various peoples, wicked, funny and bizarre' A.

Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' Observer --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. In confession I must disclose that for me the tales ranged from, 'I can't follow this' to 'I'm following this but WTF?It boasts, amongst other more explicit things which I was not entirely sure I could include in this piece, the strength and size of its titular character and ends with the phrase ‘ Aja, and she was the mother of nine children, too! Quite a few young ladies forget their shoes nearby a handsome prince, many girls find themselves forced to spin straw into gold (and therefore require some help from a little imp or an old hag), and evil stepmothers are to find everywhere. She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Wolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works.