In the very beginning of the 19th century, German linguists brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting folk fairy tales throughout Europe to preserve the stories that had been passed down orally from generation to generation. The Brothers Grimm became authors of one of the first horror anthologies. Today, when these tales have gained unprecedented popularity, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Ramsey Campbell and other masters of horror offer their own interpretations of classic fairy-tale plots. Each of these stories scares and enchants in its own way, but they share one thing: all of them are written based on the earliest, unpolished, uncensored versions of the famous fairy tales.