First published 2015
In this twisted collection, the mythic figures of our childhoods are reimagined by the master storyteller Michael Cunningham. A cursed prince buys smokes at the corner store. A lazy Jack trades a cow for magic beans. A malformed wizard goes to dark lengths to procure a child. These are the moments our bedtime tales forgot - the years after the spell breaks, the rapturous miracles, the princes only half-cured. Cunningham's sublime revelations uncover the darkness and truth at the heart of our fairy tale icons.
Genres: literary-fiction, fantasy, 21st-century, fairy-tale-retellings
Vibes: dark, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: dark-fantasy, fairy-tale-retellings
144 pages · Hardcover · HarperCollins Publishers