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** Another Gregory Maguire novel, ''Mirror Mirror'', about [[Snow White (Literature)|Snow White]] has lots of kink. (Menstruation ''[[Did Not Do the Research|does not work that way!]]'')
** [[Neil Gaiman]] gave Snow White a similar treatment in his short story "Snow, Glass, Apples."
* The ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' books tended to get Darker And Edgier as they went along. Which was no accident. Rowling set out to write a series that would grow up with its audience, and it was published over a decade -- so the same 10-year-olds expected to read ''Philosopher's Stone'' were expected to be about 20 when they read ''Deathly Hallows'', and ready for more mature fare. Naturally, this was entirely lost on most Concerned Parents, leading to oodles of [[Fan Dumb]] and [[What Do You Mean
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on when the series begins growing up.
* Many of the poems in ''[[Songs of Experience (Literature)|Songs of Experience]]'' are darker counterparts to poems in ''[[Songs of Innocence (Literature)|Songs of Innocence]]'', for example "THE Chimney Sweeper" to "The Chimney Sweeper", "Infant Sorrow" to "Infant Joy", and both "The Human Abstract" and the cut poem "A DIVINE IMAGE" to "The Divine Image".
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* [[Stuck (Literature)|Stuck]] starts off fair enough, though in its final episode the themes get darker and there's a bit more violence and black humor. Not surprising, considering that {{spoiler|the main characters become fugitives.}}
* The Cinderella adaptation ''Sunny Ella'' casts Cinderella as a deluded murderer and Rapunzel as a soulless half-vampire.
* The [[Nancy Drew]] Files and [[Hardy Boys]] Casefiles spin-offs weren't really an attempt to go Darker and Edgier, but a switch to a new publisher removed most of their previous roadblocks, namely [[Never Say Die]], [[No Hugging, No Kissing]], and the like. In doing so, they also got better written as a side effect, and fans of both series consider them some of the better books in their respective franchises.
* ''Darke'' of the ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'' series is noticeably darker than the preceding books, what with the existence of the Castle being on play and lots of people dying in the end.
* Being a Warhammer40k series, [[Gaunts Ghosts]] was never sunshine and rainbows, but starting with ''The Guns of Tanith'' things got noticeably more brutal and grim, with beloved characters dying off, the battles getting even more desperate. Compare series starter ''First & Only'' with book 8, ''Traitor General'', and you could almost be forgiven for thinking you were reading two entirely different series.
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