The scary book of fairy tales

This has a really fun old time art to the cover and sets the mood for some stories. The art is a strange set of slightly osbcured and almost pixilated drawings.

The pages have this paper texture on then and change from dark backgrounds to colored ones. A trend I"ve seen in other books. A few pages I had a hard time reading, I found my eyes were getting tired faster. It could have been just the digital copy I was reading on my computer and would look fine in real life.

I acutally have the Christmas collection of stories by teh same author! That's why the formatting looks familiar!

My favorite story was the Timbo Tree from Paraguay. I looked the tree up and it's a really cool one and the story that it inspired is short but really impactful.

Feel like the Brothers Grimm had something? Feel like you miss how The Little Mermaid suffered and died a horrible death – and that should have been how the Disney movie ended. Well, you will enjoy this one. The author has taken 50 of your favorite fairytales and given them gruesome, unhappy endings. Well, for some of the characters. I would argue that others have pretty happy endings in a twisted way. Gold stars to the ending of Hansel and Gretel. If you love scary things and fairy tales, this is for you.

On an aside, the artwork in this one is gorgeous and really brings out the macabre of the stories.

What a great collection of scary tales that I know from my childhood as well as ones I've never heard of before.
Was a quick and enjoyable dive into the true fairy tales and not the Disney versions.

What a thrilling little collection of stories and fairytales from around the world- I found it so interesting to learn new versions of old stories I've known forever.