For my money, this is without a doubt the story of the week. For years we’ve been hearing how the Grimm fairy tales were a lot more horror-based and bloody than the sanitized versions we’ve been ...

Before Walt Disney's 1950 "Cinderella" movie, there were the Grimm Brothers, who wrote an earlier Cinderella tale in 1857. And before the Grimm Brothers, there was Charles Perroult's "Cinderella," ...

As 2016, this year of upheavals, draws to a close, "Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth,/ Obsessing our private lives" (W.H. Auden). For many people, ...

In 2009, Erika Eichenseer discovered 500 previously unpublished fairy tales in the municipal archives of Regensburg, Germany. Collected in the 19th century by a Bavarian civil servant named Franz ...