First published 2023
Classic fairy tale characters face twisted new horrors in these twenty darkly comic retellings. Little Red Riding Hood discovers her grandmother conceals more dangerous traits than large dental work. Goldilocks learns that the three bears have acquired an appetite for trespassers who sample their porridge uninvited. The three little pigs confront menaces that make a wind-blowing wolf seem gentle by comparison. Each story transforms childhood comfort into creepy entertainment, mixing genuine scares with humor that makes readers both jump and laugh. The tales work on multiple levels, offering adult-targeted comedy for parents while giving children the excitement of watching innocent stories become delightfully dark. These reimagined classics prove that familiar characters can still surprise when authors add sinister twists to their well-known adventures.
Genres: anthologies, humor, fantasy, horror, comedy, fairy-tale-retellings
Vibes: darkly-comedic, delightfully-twisted, playfully-creepy, tongue-in-cheek, whimsical-yet-sinister
Tropes: dark-reimagining, genre-subversion, multi-layered-narrative, twisted-retelling
175 pages · Paperback · Dynamite Books
Content warnings: gore, violence