Well, a week ago, my plan was to write 13 different versions of Beauty and the Beast, (see here for info: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3010939 ) but than I sent my plot to a distant galaxy and now I'm thinking, to do 13 different fairy tales as they would have happened on this planet I'm designing, instead.
Anyways, I'm planning to do Little Mermaid too... only I want her to kill the prince in the end... sort of a twist on the original. Of course I was always planning a Beauty and the Beast on the darker side too... maybe Beauty let's Beast die? Something like that. Hey, I write Stolkholm Syndrome style horror, so it's bound to effect my retellings of fairy tales too, you know?
So, I'm NOW planning to pick 13 fairy tales, move them off earth and onto that other planet (see here http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3028439 & here http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3026985 for info on the planet and it's people) and retell them how they would have happened there.
But here's the thing: I need them to be 13 different fairy tales that I could do the whole Stolkholm Syndrome style horror twist on.
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Stolkholm Syndrome style horror is a story when a person is kidnapped/captured/tortured/etc by the villain and than for some odd reason falls in love with said villain, who may or may not fall in love with their victim. The story may or may not have a happy ending.
I've yet to write a happily ever after and have no plans to start now. My villians win, my heroes die, lovers kill each other, and every one ends up in a pool of blood. That's ...uhm... just my writing style, I guess. Anyways, I'm looking for a list of fairy tales that I can hack apart, and I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions on which fairy tales you think I should add to my list?
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Oct 17, 2008 - 02 49
Try this link: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html . It hasn't failed me yet!
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Oct 17, 2008 - 03 33
I can vision something terrifying about Hansel and Gretel, which brings to mind Baba Yaga. Snow White I think has potential. How about Bluebeard? That one is already quite creepy, you could go far with it. Red Riding Hood has a rough lot to content with that could be manipulated further to your ends. How about making a terrifying Cinderella? Nothing really bad happens to her in the version we get---living with Prince Charming could turn into a nightmare. Trying to think of boy characters...only coming up with Jack and the Beanstalk, but he's such a greedy little guy he deserves some trouble.
My daughter, who is 19, would be disappointed if you didn't get Sleeping Beauty in there somehow.
Good luck!
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Oct 17, 2008 - 03 54
How about Rapunzel? The relationship between her and the witch who holds her captive could give the Stockholm Syndrom an interesting twist.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 06 19
Okay, so I think I have 4 deffinants now:
Beauty and the Beast
Little Mermaid
Rapunzel
Sleeping Beauty
And three possible maybes:
Cinderella
Hansel and Gretal
Red Riding Hood
Oh, I forgot to mention, I already did a set of dark/horror fairy tale retellings (13 than). The theme that time was haunted houses. (It is in it's editing stage and should be published sometime next year.) This is going to be a part two of it.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 06 45
Anything involving Baba Yaga would be downright cool.
Putting my vote in for Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, and suggesting The Ice Queen. (You know. The one where the little girl goes looking for her friend, who got enchanted by the ice Queen thanks to a shard of enchanted ice in his eye. I think she got rid of it by crying when she gave him a goodbye kiss. Something unspeakably soppy like that anyways. I once read a version where the girl realized when she found him that he hadn't been worth the effort and asked the Queen to teach her magic instead. It was pretty cool.)
If you can find a copy, an old TV series called 'The Storyteller' might be a good way to find some really good fairy tales. Man, that show was cool. Live action and muppets gave the tales a very cool atmosphere.
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If you can find a copy, an old TV series called 'The Storyteller' might be a good way to find some really good fairy tales. Man, that show was cool. Live action and muppets gave the tales a very cool atmosphere.
"The Storyteller" is awesome!
I'd like to suggest the Six Swans. Not the most common Fairy Tale, but there's some really cool versions that I think could be twisted into something really dark.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 19 59
Try http://www.surlalunefairytales.com for some more ideas. This sounds really interesting. Dark, but it sounds like that's what you like so I say go for it. Someone has to write dark fairy tales, because I certainly can't. Mine always have happy endings. Heh heh...
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Oct 19, 2008 - 04 09
The Frog Prince.
Using the original ending, with the princess throwing the frog against the wall in disgust. He turns back into a human. She falls in love (at "first sight") with him. And he has her guillotined for throwing him against a wall. To which his faithful servant, (Iron) Henry, appears and drags her off.
((With your ice planet setting, you could have the prince be some sort of snow creature instead of a frog.))
King Thrushbeard.
Thrushbeard, disguised as a Minstrel, treats his princess-wife-to-be horribly (and when I say "horribly", I mean, smacking her around). He forces her to work as a servent at His castle (though she is still unaware who her husband-to-be really is). She finds out Thrushbeard is to be married. And on the day of his wedding she finds out the Minstrel and Thrushbeard are one in the same. And that he is not marrying her but a prettier princess. And everyone laughs at her. Then she kills herself.
Rumpelstiltskin.
The Queen never guesses his name. Rumps gets the baby. The baby grows up and kills Rumps, because he discovers what Rumps did. Somehow, he gets married to the Queen whose husband has been dead for a few years (and turns out he was killed by his own son. Dundunduuunnn!) And they have kids... And yeah, yeah... it's turning into Oepidus. And I like it, because it's rather sick and twisted.
And... I'm feeling I'm just getting sillier the more make up stories for fairytales.
Well, anyway. None of the three stories have that horror-feel to it. They seem to be more like lame tragedies. Sorry. I tried.
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http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/
This is a listing of the Andrew Lang fairy books, that includes lists of the various fairy tales within each book and in some cases.
Although not necessarily Stolkholm Syndrome style horror, Deerskin by Robin Mckinley (based off of the story Donkeyskin by Charles Perrault) is an excellent example of dark/horror fairy-tales. Here's an online version of Donkeyskin: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault11.html .
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Ooooh. You'll like this. There's a South American variation of Beauty and the Beast where, after the Beast turns into the prince, Beauty walks away from him. Says that's not the man (beast) that she fell in love with. But I digress.
Try East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon, Hansel and Gretel, Deerskin, Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog Prince, The Goose Girl, Mother Hubbard.
Most fairy tales are pretty dark once you get past the Disney/Victorian interpretations. Try to get the oldest versions possible. In them the Mermaid never gets her prince and dies alone, Red Riding Hood gets eaten (and in some versions ends up in a very sexual position with the wolf), Snow White's mother tries to kill her (instead of her stepmother), Cinderella decapitates her first stepmother (unfortunately her father marries the maid who helped Cinderella kill the first one). They are bloody and so much fun.
Happy hunting.
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Jun 5, 2009 - 17 42
The Frog Prince and The Swan Princess.
And I throw in my lot with whoever said Rumplestiltskin, that story was the best.
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Jun 6, 2009 - 13 08
The tortise and the hare!
On a more serious suggetion, you could frame your whole 13 stories using "1001 Arabian Nights" which is already something of Stockholm Syndrome.
The Pied Piper ends with the kidnapping - you could do a follow up.
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Grimm's fairy tales. >< i read them as soon as i could read!!! (and not the children's diluted version! )