The Creature Feature

Everyone wishes for a fairy tale life with happy endings and wishes fulfilled, but did you know those endearing childhood fables Walt Disney depicted were actually horror stories?  Tales so dark & sinister, that read before bedtime, guaranteed terror and nightmares!  For example, the pulchritudinous Sleeping Beauty, rosebud lips poised for true love's kiss to break the spell, was actually found as a one hundred year old cadaver, rotted flesh and all.  It made it a true act of heroism for the prince to kiss the decaying corpse.  Can you imagine the bloodied condition of Cinderella's feet after running in glass slippers?  Think of the carnage in Grandma's cottage after the woodsman rescued her and Little Red Riding Hood.  She likely was scrubbing wolf guts off the ceiling for a week!  This Creature Feature is dedicated to the tenebrous side of beloved fairy tales. 

I recommend that you get all the facts straight about those lovely apologues you thought you knew by reading one of the actual unedited versions of The Brothers Grimm agglomeration.  Mistress loves Grimm's Grimmest for a truly frightening experience.  Author, Bob Curran wrote a tremendous collection of books exploring every possible fairy tale creature known.  Curran works with an amazing artist, Ian Daniels, who's illustrations absolutely thrill the imagination.  If you want to manifest your own fairy tale, Kenny Klein's book, Fairy Tale Rituals, unveils fanciful secrets and instructs how to perform authentic magic spells inspired by your favorite stories.  The Fairytale Tarot by Irena Triskova and Alex Ukolovby features tenebrous artwork from some of the lesser known Eastern European traditions.  The deck makes a great path working tool for a unique divinatory experience.

Want to become a fairy tale Gothic prince or princess?  There are places all over the web to sate your fantasy!  These are just a few Mistress has shopped:  The Tudor Shoppe, The Historical Clothing Realm, The Dark Angel and Holy Clothing.   Lime Crime cosmetics can deliver fairy dust color and enchanted kiss lips.  Rapunzel will envy your locks with a little help from Cosplay Wigs USA.  Top off your ensemble with Disney Couture accessories.  This stuff isn't intended for kids with luxury label quality and dark minded design details.  Mistress lusted for their poisoned apple ring.

Hollywood has been crushing on tenebrous fairy tales recently.  There is a lot of hype surrounding Kristen Stewart's portrayal of Snow White.  Due out June 2012, it promises to paint a shadowy adventure of evil and deceit.  A recent film interpretation of Sarah Blakey-Cartwright's book "Red Riding Hood" made the big bad wolf even more terrifying than usual.  Other fairy tale films to explore on DVD that might make your heart beat faster are:  The Company Of Wolves, Snow White A Tale Of Terror and Pan's Labyrinth.  

Passed down through the generations, fairy tales were surely created to teach and inspire us that against all obstacles, one will survive.  Life can be a dark journey, as we tenebrous souls all know.  Within the ebon forest, where killer wolves, smoldering dragons, foreboding towers and truculent witches dwell, find your emulous protagonist inside and venture on till magic finds you.  After all, there's no need to be afraid of the dark!