I recommend starting here if you too are interested in books with that bite of darkness. This list of retellings is a mixture of fairy tales and folklore (for they often intersect) that explore deeper themes and do not shy away from the darker side of human nature. This stopped the story from becoming too saccharine, taking it back to its darker yet more compelling origins. Hoffman’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which preceded the ballet. When writing Midnight in Everwood, a retelling of The Nutcracker, I included a darker skein threaded through the sugary-sweet plot, one inspired by E.T.A. I fell in love with fairy tales all over again when I began to explore them as an adult, finding the darker, original stories-such as the ones the Brothers Grimm documented-much more interesting. Yet when we first encounter fairy tales, usually as children, they tend to be as watered-down, sanitary versions. These archetypal old stories have been passed down for hundreds of years and exist in many different forms and across many different cultures. Like many authors, I find myself drawn to fairy tales.
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