Genre: Fairy Tale/Humor/Satire/Short Story Collection
Description:
“Bluebeard's naive bride is only a cover for his truly brutal
fetishes. Rapunzel is the unbalanced spawn of an opium-addicted mother. The
Wolf is the least of Red Riding Hood's problems. Meet Sleeping Beauty's twin
henchman sons. A product of incest when her own half brother comes upon her
helplessly passed out in a coma and takes advantage. Discover the real price
Rumpelstiltskin charges for spinning straw into gold.
If you enjoy dark humor with your incest, torture, cannibalism,
dismemberment, and other medieval pastimes you've come to the right place.
These are extremely gruesome adult retellings of classic fairy tales more than
just fractured. These stories are deeply dark with twisted sexual encounters
and the women in these fairy tales are not the tenderhearted pushovers as in
modern-day fairy tales.
So come down to the dungeon, settle onto your Judas cradles and break
out your heretic forks. A delectable feast for true horror fairy tale fans.
This book will haunt your dreams if not give you vivid nightmares. Each story
and many characters are tied together all into one dysfunctional kingdom with a
viciously abusive king and many murderous, lascivious and just plain
monstrously evil people. This book includes Bluebeard, Rumpelstiltskin, Red
Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and more. A wicked
read.”
Author:
“Originally from Chicago, Linda has been writing horror and thriller
short stories for years and formerly published stories in pulp fiction
magazines such as Murderous Intent Magazine under a pen name. She is also a
composer, rock guitarist and singer in the classic rock style band Slippery
When Wet and uses the stage name Linda Vee Sado.”
Appraisal:
If you like dark and twisted, this might be right up your alley. Each
of the stories in this collection takes a classic fairytale as the foundation
and rewrites it, staying true to the basic story while adding some off-the-wall
twists to end up with a story that you’d never want to tell the kids that the
originals were aimed for. But for adults who know the real world isn’t quite
like it is depicted in fairytales, you’ll hopefully laugh at these dark and
demented tales. Hopefully they won’t feel too familiar to real life.
Buy now
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FYI:
Some adult themes.
Format/Typo
Issues:
The number of proofing errors (homonym issues, missing or extra words
and other typos) wasn’t enough to impact the ranking, but it went right up to
the line and didn’t quite cross it. If you’re bothered by typos, beware.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 25-30,000 words
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