Black Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are the first horror stories… And now they’re coming back to you the way they always were—and the way they should be!

Oh, these fairy tales. Oh, these storytellers!.. In ancient times people didn’t know kind fairy tales. Fairy tales have always been dark and frightening stories about death, violence, black magic. In them, unfortunate rulers were boiled alive; children were starved; and orphans had their limbs cut off. And even The Little Mermaid…

…H. C. Andersen drank the blood of a sea witch before losing her tongue and going to dry land to the beloved prince.

Fairy tales are the first horror stories… And now they’re coming back to you the way they always were—and the way they should be!

In the anthology “Black Fairy Tales” you’ll find both modern variations of famous tales about the Queen of Shamahān, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Mermaid—and entirely new, original, and one-of-a-kind stories based on folklore from different countries and peoples. The fruits of the wild imaginations of authors such as Oleg Kozhin, Alexander Matyukhin, Mike Gelprin, Dmitry Tikhonov, Oksana Vetlovskaya, and many, many others are gathered into one big and very terrifying collection by the well-known writer and compiler of horror anthologies M. S. Parfyonov.

There’s no room here for bright magic—because these are fairy tales for adults.

Black, black fairy tales…