Halfway to Fairyland

 Not to, like, gatekeep fairy tale retellings, but how many authors who've retold Beauty and the Beast do you think have actually read B...

 As is the case with most fairy tales, there are several versions of Sleeping Beauty from several different regions. Today we're going t...

 Where we left off last week, the earliest example of our current version of the curse was Robin McKinley’s Beauty, and for a long time, I c...

 So—I’m sure this will come as a shock to all of you—I’ve been thinking about Beauty and the Beast. Specifically, about the nature of the cu...

 This is another story I could have sworn I already wrote about, but again, no evidence. A man and a woman have no children. Their friends m...

 This is a weird one. It’s kind of Beauty and the Beast vibes, but technically the dude isn't under a spell? Also there’s a deal with th...

 I just want to take a moment today to go over yet another horrifying, heartbreaking element of the Beast’s suffering in the original Beauty...