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A review by billymac1962
Snow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
2.0
This was something I had been looking for all of my adult life: darker re-telling of classic fairy tales. It's probably the reason this was a disappointment. These aren't so much as re-tellings as they are alternate tellings to the point where where they where for the most part unrecognizable.
There are a few standouts, such as Neil Gaiman's re-telling of The Billy Goats Gruff (which reminds me I must return
to Gaiman's Sandman comics soon) and Gahan Wilson's take on The Frog Prince, but the rest left me cold. I guess I was looking for something that would capture the same wonder The Magic Realm of Fairy Tales my mom read to me when I was a wee lad. These stories were just too different and not what I expected.
There are a few standouts, such as Neil Gaiman's re-telling of The Billy Goats Gruff (which reminds me I must return
to Gaiman's Sandman comics soon) and Gahan Wilson's take on The Frog Prince, but the rest left me cold. I guess I was looking for something that would capture the same wonder The Magic Realm of Fairy Tales my mom read to me when I was a wee lad. These stories were just too different and not what I expected.