Halfway to Fairyland

 This is an allegedly-Russian fairy tale which I read in The Yellow Fairy Book; I’ve had a bit of trouble tracking down any information abou...

 This is a Russian fairy tale which I read in The Yellow Fairy Book. We open with a king going off to war, giving his wife strict instructio...

 There's this new thing now where people aren't just retelling stories, they're retelling the Disney version of stories. I mean,...

 This is a French fairy tale by a Chevalier de Mailly, but I read it in Andrew Lang’s Yellow Fairy Book. We begin with a wizard king, a quee...

 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...