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Fairy tales have always been popular reading. But modern fairy tales gloss over the bad stuff. Read the originals, and find out the true story. “The Little Mermaid” did not marry her prince. She died and became sea foam. ...

I like to walk, argue about the X-Men, watch bad horror movies, and rail against modern standards of feminine beauty, which tend to piss me off. I have opinions about pretty much everything, and an unfortunate tendency to share them at ... The first in the series is Rosemary and Rue, an urban fantasy/murder mystery that's probably best described as "fairy tale noir." Think Fables meets Jim Butcher and you'll be in the right zip code, if not exactly the right neighborhood. ...

Graham Robb's The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography From the Revolution to the First World War (2007) is a book about the innumerable tiny subcultures of pre-modern France, and how wildly diverse they were until surprisingly recently. He discusses the way many of these ... First, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, came new children's fantasy—no longer retellings and revisions of old fairy tales, which now had canonical versions, but new stories . ...