Magic Murder and Machines

<p>For fans of Angela Carter Jane Yolen and other twisted or fractured fairy tales.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fifteen Familiar Fairy Tales Reimagined and Retold. </strong>Folklore was intended to be retold. Oral stories had the ability to be updated to change with their audiences tellers and occasions. Since folktales and fairy tales have been written down we tend to get stuck in older versions of the stories. Which means we might also get stuck in older versions of ourselves. </p><p>This collection of fairy tale retellings - wrapped in a frame tale evoking 1001 Nights - ask the questions why? and why not? of our favorite stories. </p><p></p><p>Stories that have been imagined anew in this volume include the story of Scheherazade the Snow Queen Sleeping Beauty Rapunzel Beauty and the Beast Goldilocks and the Three Bears the Princess and the Pea Allerleirauh the Princess who became a Goose Girl and the Goose Girl Annie Cinderella Fitcher's Bird Unicorns Hamlet Merlin and of course Baba Yaga. Set in worlds ranging from a cyberpunk future to steampunk alternate universes and beyond these tales defy space and time. Several of the stories feature LGBTQIA+ characters and like all fairy tales a few have unsettling themes.    </p>