In "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales" (Penguin, 224 pages, $15), Keith Gessen and Anna Summers bring together their new translations of 19 short ...

As bedtime draws near, the kids approach the bookshelf, peruse the many choices and finally settle on two stories for mom or dad to read to them. The routine is familiar, a comforting ritual that ...

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With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like Halloween is luring kids into topics they are ...

Novelist Mona Awad has become a BookTok phenomenon for her blend of fantasy, horror, modernized elements of classic fairy ...

The Ugly Stepsister follows the central narrative of the fairy tale familiar to most viewers. A woman with two daughters marries a widower. When he dies, his daughter, now called Cinderella, is ...

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ONCE upon a time there was a girl who was so sweet and kind that everyone loved her. So begins the story of Little Red Riding Hood. You may think you know it – but ...

It’s a big bad world out there and the latest film from horror director Oz Perkins gives us just a taste of it. Orion Pictures’ 'Gretel & Hansel' is a reimagining of the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale.

I've been a big fan of books since I was a child partly because my parents would read to me before bedtime. I started this ritual with my daughter when she was very small. She loves her books and is ...

In The Ugly Stepsister, writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines Cinderella from the perspective of one of the stepsisters while remaining faithful to the source material, drawing on the enduring ...

I've been a big fan of books since I was a child partly because my parents would read to me before bedtime. I started this ritual with my daughter when she was very small. She loves her books and is ...