Literature (Dec 2023)

Introduction: Fairy Tales and Other Horrors

  • Laura Tosi,
  • Alessandro Cabiati

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/literature4010002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 22 – 30

Abstract

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In a Christmas 2017 interview with the British magazine Fortean Times, the celebrated Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro described ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘the original Cinderella’, and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as ‘a horror story’, before affirming that ‘horror and the fairy tale walk hand in hand’ (del Toro 2017, p [...]

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