Red As Blood: Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (Expanded Edition) (Paperback)

from sweetzombieducky

I had to hunt this one down after the Cinderella story was included in a college anthology of Children's Lit. The stories are so rich and vivid you can practically taste them. Lee's version of 'The Frog Prince' is particularly remarkable and a little terrifying at the end. Well worse the hassle i...

from the1butterfly

Tanith Lee turns these tales around- the heroines are often the bad guys and though the elements of the tale stay the same, the message is often completely different. The tales are often completely different sometimes in ways I didn't like. My favorite of the tales was "Beauty," a retelling of "B...

from AltheaAnn

Retellings of classic fairytales. Lots of inversions of good and evil, twisted religious/mythological allegories, poetic imagery, and deliciously ambiguous gorgeousness. A re-read for me.

from the1butterfly

Tanith Lee turns these tales around- the heroines are often the bad guys and though the elements of the tale stay the same, the message is often completely different. The tales are often completely different sometimes in ways I didn't like. My favorite of the tales was "Beauty," a retelling of "B...

from Murphy-Jacobs

The first Tanith Lee I read, this collection of retold fairytales sparked in me a love for the story turned on its head, the tale told from a different point of view, or the reinterpretation of the familiar. It's also fun, in that way real, gruesome, bloody folk tales are fun.