Does this "dark turn" in fairy-tale filmmaking represent a return to older, more forbidding versions of stories Disney gussied up for 20th-century kids?

Fairy Tales Started Dark, Got Cute, and Are Now Getting Dark Again The action-packed 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is less a subversion of an old story than a return to one. By Scott Meslow May 31 ...

Evil figures prominently in favorite bedtime stories. But a new translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's tales reveals exactly how unsanitized and murderous these stories once were.

Features The Dark Origins of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales Every fairy tale ends with a happily ever after, right? Well, not to begin with, they didn’t… ...

Some stories are such classics, they were told at least once in everyone's childhood. Stories like 'Snow White,' 'Sleeping ...

Disney's new live-action extravaganza is just the latest retelling of this classic fairy tale. But why do Beauty and her Beast have such a hold on us? And why are there so many versions of their tale?

Bedtime stories are supposed to be charming and adequate for a child’s innocent mind, but the most surprisingly dark fairy tales don’t really fit this mould.

Famous fairy tales and folktales from around the world Fairy tale stories are part and parcel of childhood. Endlessly ...

The Dark Morality of Fairy-Tale Animal Brides Beauty and the Beast, a new collection of folk stories from around the world, explores the strangeness of interspecies relationships.

His “Il Pentamerone” was a collection of dark fairy tales published in 1634 that directly inspired the Grimms, who published their first collection in 1812.