There was a time when fairy tales were much more than just bedtime stories. Actually, the fanciful tales that have enthralled ...

Based on ancient German folklore, the fairy tales created by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm have become ageless bedtime favorites because of their magical ability to transport children into the world of the ...

ON A GORGEOUS SPRING day in upstate New York, my friend and I sat in a patch of clover and listened to our four-year-old children play. “I have too many chores,” her daughter was saying to my son. “I ...

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron presents a unique twist on the classic Cinderella tale. Set in a fictional world two hundred years after Cinderella’s death, Cinderella is Dead confronts the very ...

Like its titular fairy tale heroine, Cinderella is sincere, not an ironic bone in it. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful bedtime story narrated by Helena Bonham-Carter (also the fairy godmother ...

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. The fairy tale of Cinderella has a ...

Stephen Evans explores the twisted world of Grimm's Fairy Tales – bedtime stories complete with mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide and incest. On the covers are the most innocent of titles: Grimm’s ...