The fairy tale speaks to us all; that is its particular charm. The beggar and the prince pause in the marketplace to hear the storyteller, and for a moment, they are merely men, subject to the passions that rule us all.
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| — | -Erik Haugaard, Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (via fairytaleproject) |
I have a creepy drawing in the Wall Street Journal today. It accompanies a book review of “Snow White Must Die,” by Nele Neuhaus, a new police procedural set in a village outside of Frankfurt. The book is about a series of killings with some Snow White parallels.
I wanted to keep things menacing but vague, with some fairytale-esque colors. Turns out I do a pretty good job on creepy topics? I seem to get them a lot.
AD Dave Bamundo
First assignment for my class on Fairy Tales! At the end of Snow White in the Grimm version, she forces the witch to dance to death in red hot iron shoes…not quite Disney.
