I just found this Kickstarter for Wooden Rose, which appears to be a Jane Austen and fairy tale meld. The art is gorgeous so I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

Tor.com did a review of the new Beauty and the Beast that kills the last dying threads of curiosity that I had about it ( Read more... )

I fear I may be asking for the impossible here, but this community is always so fantastic I thought I would try my luck.

I'm writing a university essay on Beauty and the Beast, and am frantically trying to get a hold of the original version by Madame de Villeneuve. I can only find it in French on Google Books. I'm told it's in the out of print ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Just came across this and I thought it was pretty entertaining:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/2/28/


( Read more... )

You may remember that I posted a review of Sarah Beth Durst's Into the Wild a while back. I had a chance to read her sequel, Out of the Wild, as well, and it held up to the standards of her first book very well.


( Read more... )

Just wanted to point out that all 26 episodes of Shelley Duvall's Fairie Tale Theatre are now available on hulu, here:

http://www.hulu.com/shelley-duvalls-faerie-tale-theatre


( Read more... )

I made screencaps of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete (1946) and I thought I'd share it here just in case anyone's interested in making graphics from it. It's gorgeous adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and deserves lots of love.


( Read more... )

Heart's Blood is Juliet Marillier's newest fairy tale retelling, and she's turned out a masterful Beauty and the Beast, keeping the bones of the story while bypassing the cliches of one of the most frequently retold tales there is.


( Read more... )