Fairytale included several in The Golden Ass .)
It may include modern fairytales, which use fairytale motifs in original plots, such as The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz and The Hobbit , as well as Erotic , Violent , or otherwise more adult-oriented retellings of classic fairytales (many of which were originally unsuitable for children anyway, prior to their " Disneyfication "), such as the comic book series Fables . It can also include fairy tales with the plot fleshed out with characterization, setting, and fuller plots, to form a child's or YA novel.
Many fairytale fantasies are Revisionist , often reversing the moral values of the characters involved. This may be done for the intrinsic aesthetic interest, or for a thematic exploration. Writers may also make the magic of the fairytale self-consistent in a Fantasy re-telling, based on technological extrapolation in a Science Fiction , or explain it away in a contemporary or historical work of fiction.
Other forms of fantasy, especially Comic Fantasy , may include fairy tale motifs as partial elements, as when Terry Pratchett 's Discworld contains a witch who lives in a gingerbread house, or when Patricia Wrede 's Enchanted Forest is rife with princesses and princes trying to fit in their appointed fairytale roles.
The settings of fairytale fantasies, like the fairy tales they derive from, may owe less to World-building than to the logic of folk tales. Princes can go wandering in the woods and return with a bride without consideration for all the political effects of royal marriages.
Other writers may develop the world as fully as in other subgenres, generating a work that is also, based on setting, a High Fantasy , Historical Fantasy , or Contemporary Fantasy .
- George MacDonald 's The Princess And The Goblin (1872)
- James Thurber 's Many Moons (1944)
- James Thurber 's The 13 Clocks (1950)
- '' (1978)
- Joan Vinge 's ''The Snow Queen'', using elements of the Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tale Of The Same Title
- Tanith Lee 's ''Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer'' (1983) a collection of short stories, all fairytale fantasies, many of them revisionist.
- Tanith Lee 's ''White As Snow'', a dark retelling of Snow White .
- Kara Dalkey 's ''The Nightingale'' (1988), based on " The Emperor And The Nightingale "
- Patricia Wrede 's ''Snow White and Rose Red'', (1989) based on the Grimm Brothers ' Tale Of The Same Title , which is ''not'' Snow White .
- Ellen Kushner 's ''Thomas the Rhymer'', based on The Scottish Ballad Of The Same Title
- Robin McKinley 's ''Deerskin'' (1994) a retelling of Charles Perrault 's "Donkeyskin"
- Donna Jo Napoli 's ''Zel'' (1996), a retelling of " Rapunzel "
- Robin McKinley 's ''Rose Daughter'' (1997), another retelling of " Beauty And The Beast "
- Robin McKinley 's ''Spindle's End'' (2000), a retelling of " Sleeping Beauty "
- Jane Yolen 's ''Briar Rose'' (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty )
- Angela Carter 's ''The Bloody Chamber'' (stories)
- Emma Donoghue's ''Kissing the Witch'' (stories)
- Robert Coover's ''Briar Rose'' (a post-modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty )
- Orson Scott Car's "Enchantment" (another retelling of Sleeping Beauty )
- Kathryn Davis' ''The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf'' (a contemporary American treatment of this story)
- Berlie Doherty's ''The Vinegar Jar'' (draws on several tales from Grimms)
- Gregory Frost's ''Fitcher's Brides'' (a retelling of the Bluebeard / Fitcher's Bird fairy tale)
- Peg Kerr's ''The Wild Swans'' (a retelling of the Wild Swans / Seven Swans fairy tale)
- Juliette Marillier's ''Daughter of the Forest'' (a retelling of the Wild Swans / Seven Swans fairy tale)
- Gregory Maguire's ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'' (a retelling of Cinderella )
- Gregory Maguire's ''Mirror, Mirror'' (a retelling of Snow White )
- Louise Murphy's ''The True Story of Hansel and Gretel''
- Sheri Tepper's ''Beauty''
- Francesca Lia Block's ''The Rose and the Beast'' (stories)
- The six-volume "Snow White, Blood Red" series of anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
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