Today's Fairy Tales Started Out (Even More) Dark And Harrowing Evil figures prominently in favorite bedtime stories. But a new translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's tales ...

In fairy tales, magic often has humorous, complicated or unforeseen consequences. Heroes and heroines are done and undone by the gap between a spell’s intent and its effects: Characters are ...

For over 50 years, women have been clamoring to make themselves into men—mentally and now biologically.

Fairy Tales focuses on how artists, designers and filmmakers have taken inspiration from fantasy motifs, adapting the fairy tale vocabulary of extremes to their own artistic needs.

Disney's best movies are often based on beloved fairy tales, and while it has made a lot, there are many more that still haven't been adapted.

Using fairy tale characters -- mermaids, vampires, and witches -- as metaphors, the team has sought to communicate typically complicated arguments in evocative and engaging terms.

Aren’t Fairy Tales For Kids? The Ugly Stepsister highlights the incredibly strong connection between fairy tales and the horror genre.

Each story in White Cat, Black Dog is explicitly linked to a specific fairy tale. Link’s affinity for fairy tales is partly thematic—her work is full of such magical motifs as talking animals ...

In their latest book "CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora," Kahran and Regis Bethencourt retell fairy and folk tales with Black children as the main characters.

“Grimms’ Fairy Tales”, we call them simply now — as biographer Ann Schmiesing points out, the fact that the apostrophe is often put in the wrong place demonstrates that the brothers ...