List of fairytale fantasies

List of fairytale fantasies

This list of fairytale fantasies contains an illustrative list of fairytale fantasy works.

Original Fairytale Works

*George MacDonald's "Phantastes" (1858)
*Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865)
*Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871)
*George MacDonald's "At the Back of the North Wind" (1871)
*George MacDonald's "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872)
*Carlo Collodi's "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1883)
*L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900)
*J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan (1904: play) (1911: novel)
*Lord Dunsany's "The King of Elfland's Daughter" (1924)
*Lord Dunsany's "The Charwoman's Shadow" (1926)
*James Thurber's "Many Moons" (1944)
*James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks" (1950)
*Jay Williams's "The Practical Princess and other stories" (1979)

Retellings

Beauty and the Beast

* Robin McKinley's "" (1978)
* Robin McKinley's "Rose Daughter" (1997)
* Sheri Tepper's "Beauty"
* Donna Jo Napoli's "Beast" (2000)
* Angela Carter 'The Courtship of Mr Lyon' and 'The Tiger's Bride'(1979)

Rapunzel

* Donna Jo Napoli's "Zel" (1996)
* Nicholas Stuart Gray's "The Stone Cage"

Sleeping Beauty

* Robin McKinley's "Spindle's End" (2000)
* Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose"
* Robert Coover's "Briar Rose"
* Orson Scott Card's "Enchantment"
* Martha Wells' "Thorns" ("Realms of Fantasy," 1995)
* "Clementine" by Sophie Masson

The Wild Swans

* Zoë Marriott's "The Swan Kingdom" (2007), a young adult retelling
* Peg Kerr's "The Wild Swans"
* Juliet Marillier's "Daughter of the Forest"

Snow White

* Tanith Lee's "White As Snow", a dark retelling
* Gregory Maguire's "Mirror, Mirror"
* Gail Carson Levine's "Fairest"

Pied Piper of Hamelin

* Adam McCune & Keith McCune's "The Rats of Hamelin"
* Meg Harper's "Piper"

Cinderella

* Gregory Maguire's "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"
* Gail Carson Levine's "Ella Enchanted"
* Margaret Peterson Haddix's "Just Ella"
* Diane Stanley's Bella at Midnight

Other/Multiple

* Kathryn Davis's "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)
* Louise Murphy's "The True Story of Hansel and Gretel"
* Francesca Lia Block's "The Rose and the Beast" (stories)
*Joan Vinge's "The Snow Queen", using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen 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.
*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" (1990), based on the Scottish ballad of the same title
*Robin McKinley's "Deerskin" (1994) a retelling of Charles Perrault's "Donkeyskin"
*Annette Marie Hyder's "The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow" (2007), short stories and poems inspired and informed by Fairy Tales, Folklore and Mythology
*Rebecca Lickiss's "Never After" (2002), comic fantasy including elements of Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Frog Prince, and The Princess and the Pea
* Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" (stories)
* Emma Donoghue's "Kissing the Witch" (stories)
* Edith Pattou's "East" (2003), based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Also see List of fairy tales, linking to various individual fairy tales' pages, several of which list fairytale fantasies among their variants.


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