As bedtime draws near, the kids approach the bookshelf, peruse the many choices and finally settle on two stories for mom or dad to read to them. The routine is familiar, a comforting ritual that ...

The movie theater was dark, a sense of excitement filled the air and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was on the large screen. The year was 1954 and I was five years old. My father sat next to me in ...

In "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales" (Penguin, 224 pages, $15), Keith Gessen and Anna Summers bring together their new translations of 19 short ...

It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it is luring kids into topics they are not ready to ...

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When we were kids, "fairy tales" were the cutesy purview of Disney movies and children's books. Princesses sang to animals and princes gallivanted around with their privilege wildly unchecked. Fairy ...

It looks as if fairy tales are not just for children anymore. Hollywood is turning them into R-rated action movies. First there was "Snow White and the Huntsman." Next up is "Hansel & Gretel," then ...

Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...