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* Since it's by the author of ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'', ''Fairest'' also falls under this. The Snow White character is actually ugly (or at least [[Hollywood Homely]]), and her singing, while popular at first, eventually forces her to flee the kingdom because the townspeople think it makes her an inhuman seductress. She does wind up living with dwarves (or rather, gnomes), and it turns out she's probably {{spoiler|descended from gnomes herself}}. The Wicked Queen is still a bit of a [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]], but she and Snow White are friends first, and it turns out she was mostly being manipulated by the {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster]] inside the magic mirror}} all along. And the story is actually ''set'' in a country where people sing most of the time.
* Angela Carter's ''[[The Bloody Chamber]]'' is a collection of short fantasy stories for adults based on reinterpreting and subverting common fairytale themes - often based on the moral and adult subtext of the original itself, in order to pick apart their gender stereotypes and social ideas. Enter a Little Red Riding Hood who ends up "knowing" the wolf after he's killed her grandmother; a Snow White who is created as a product of the father's desires, dies at the prick of a rose's thorn and is subsequently deflowered by him; a Beauty who finds that she is far more comfortable becoming a Beast rather than for her Beast to become a human... fascinating, if slightly disturbing, reading. For the intrigued, it can be found online [https://web.archive.org/web/20080614033416/http://www.angelfire.com/crazy4/lesadoreyl/carter_bloody_chamber.html here]: though the experience is undoubtedly better when it is read in physical form.
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20031212094950/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/shortstories/melisande.html Melisande: or, Long and Short Division]" is a highly inventive and somewhat tongue-in-cheek retelling of "[[Rapunzel]]". Just to start, the king is [[Genre Savvy]] and knows better than to throw a christening party that will inevitably leave one fairy out and piss her off, but it doesn't stop the princess from being cursed to be bald. Fortunately, the king has a spare wish from his fairy godmother, but the princess's careless wish for [[Hair of Gold]] that will grow faster the more it's cut leads to predictable problems, and it takes several attempts and the logic of a wise prince to make her hair stop growing without making ''her'' [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|grow into a giant]] (long story; read the online tale for the full story!).
* ''Twice Upon a Time'' re-tells "[[Rumpelstiltskin]]" from the point-of view of the girl's father, who gets into tax-trouble, and all the "[[Prince Charming]] gets the girl" stories from the point of view of the prince. He eventually turns into the [[Beauty And The Best|Beast]], jaded and nearly insane, and ends up with Beauty because her pets don't sing (She's only got the horse, silent as the grave, by the way), she doesn't do fancy fixtures ([[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]], who drained the treasury), have a blood/ sharp stuff fetish ([[Sleeping Beauty]], whose "thing" got way out of hand), or like groupsex ([[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]], whom he executed for cheating-with all seven dwarves). [[Hansel and Gretel]] have a different ending, they get adopted by Rumpelstiltskin and his wife.
* [[James Thurber]]'s ''Fables for Our Time''.
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