Fairy tales with the dark parts left in

The classics with nothing cut out: the blood, the cruelty, the grim endings. Retold by Talerie in modern English, for older readers.

These are the same tales as elsewhere on Talerie, only told the way they were told before the nineteenth century started tidying them. Cinderella’s sisters and their shoes, the mermaid who does not get what she came for.

They are labelled so that nobody lands here by accident at bedtime. Every tale in this collection also has a gentler retelling on its own page.

They also run longer: the shortest is a few minutes, the longest goes past an hour. Each carries an age range, and it is worth reading it before you start.