However, almost all of these stories have a dark and gruesome original version. Red Riding Hood's grandmother meets a gruesome fate, Pinocchio calls the police, and Sleeping Beauty's love story is ...

Here are the roots of 5 fairy tales we grew up with. What is the version of The Little Mermaid that we remember? The prince ...

Today's Fairy Tales Started Out (Even More) Dark And Harrowing Evil figures prominently in favorite bedtime stories. But a new translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's tales ...

The Dark Origins of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Every fairy tale ends with a happily ... because I’m about to share some of the grisly details from the original versions of some beloved fairy tales.

If you've only come across fairy tales courtesy of Walt Disney, or some other sweetened retelling, the dark culinary themes in the 19th-century versions told by the two German brothers, Jacob and ...