Twisted fairy tales are great, because they use familiar tropes to tell a wonderfully new story. To celebrate this genre, I've compiled a list of 10 fairy tale retellings that twist the story just ...

RWBY takes classic fairy tales and gives them a high-energy, anime-style twist! Ruby Rose, in her fiery red cloak and oversized scythe, takes on ferocious Grimm creatures along with her fierce ...

7. "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006, rated R): Real fairy tales are dark. Rumpelstiltskin rips himself in half. The evil queen in "Snow White" is forced into red-hot iron shoes and dances herself to death.

From Cinderella to CEO: How to Master the 10 Lessons of Fairy Tales to Transform Your Work Life Cary Jehl Broussard. John Wiley & Sons, $24.95 (223pp) ISBN 978-0-471-72718-7 ...

Here are the Top 10 fairy tales that, according to the Telegraph, are less often read to children: 1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 2. Hansel and Gretel 3. Cinderella 4.

Cunningham, author of The Hours and last year’s The Snow Queen (itself inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story), plays changes on 10 stories, most familiar and some less so, in A Wild Swan.

It's part of a trend to use time-tested fairy tales as source material for movies, art and other 21st-century creations. Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu.