List of fairytale fantasies
This list of fairytale fantasies contains an illustrative list of fairytale fantasy works.
Original Fairytale Works
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine (1811)
- George MacDonald's Phantastes (1858)
- Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
- George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
- George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)
- L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904: play) (1911: novel)
- Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
- Lord Dunsany's The Charwoman's Shadow (1926)
- James Thurber's Many Moons (1944)
- James Thurber's The 13 Clocks (1950)
- Jay Williams's The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales (1979)
- M. M. Kaye's The Ordinary Princess (1980)
- Judy Corbalis's The Wrestling Princess and other stories (1986)
- Susan Price's The Ghost Drum (1987)
- Neil Gaiman's Stardust (1999)
- Bern Shaw's Bern's Fairy Tales (2009)
Retellings
Beauty and the Beast
- Robin McKinley's Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)
- Angela Carter's "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride" in The Bloody Chamber (1979)
- Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter (1997)
- Donna Jo Napoli's Beast (2000)
- Alex Flinn's Beastly (2007)
- Cameron Dokey's Belle (2008)
- Juliet Marillier's Heart's Blood (2009)
- Naomi Novic's Uprooted (2015)
Rapunzel
- Nicholas Stuart Gray's The Stone Cage (1963)
- Adele Geras's The Tower Room (1990) (book 1 in the Egerton Hall Trilogy)
- Donna Jo Napoli's Zel (1996)
- Cameron Dokey's Golden (2006)
- Kate Forsyth's Bitter Greens (2012)
Sleeping Beauty
- Adele Geras's Watching the Roses (1991) (book 2 in the Egerton Hall Trilogy)
- Jane Yolen's Briar Rose (1992)
- Martha Wells' "Thorns" (Realms of Fantasy, 1995)
- Robert Coover's Briar Rose (1996)
- Orson Scott Card's Enchantment (1999)
- Sophie Masson's Clementine (1999)
- Robin McKinley's Spindle's End (2000)
The Wild Swans
- Nicholas Stuart Gray's The Seventh Swan (1962), about the brother left with a swan's wing for an arm
- Peg Kerr's The Wild Swans (1999)
- Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest (2000)
- Zoë Marriott's The Swan Kingdom (2007), a young adult retelling
Snow White
- Adele Geras's Pictures of the Night (1992) (book 3 in the Egerton Hall Trilogy)
- Tanith Lee's White as Snow, a dark retelling (2000)
- Gregory Maguire's Mirror, Mirror (2003)
- Gail Carson Levine's Fairest (2006)
- Jane Yolen's Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All, a retelling set in early twentieth-century Appalachia (2011)
Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Delia Huddy's Time Piper (1984)
- Jane Lindskold's The Pipes of Orpheus (1995)
- Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (2001)
- Adam McCune & Keith McCune's The Rats of Hamelin (2005)
- Meg Harper's Piper (2007)
Cinderella
- Eleanor Farjeon's The Glass Slipper (play, 1944; novelization, 1955)
- Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted (1997)
- Gregory Maguire's Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
- Margaret Peterson Haddix's Just Ella (1999)
- Diane Stanley's Bella at Midnight (2006)
Other tales
- Eleanor Farjeon's The Silver Curlew (play, 1949; novel, 1953) based on Rumplestiltskin
- Katharine Mary Briggs's Kate Crackernuts (1963) based on the Scottish fairy tale Kate Crackernuts
- James Reeves's The Cold Flame (1967), a retelling of the Grimm tale The Blue Light
- Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen (1980) using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
- Kara Dalkey's The Nightingale (1988), based on "The Emperor and the Nightingale"
- Patricia Wrede's Snow White and Rose Red (1989) based on the Grimm Brothers' tale of the same title, which is not Snow White
- Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer (1990) based on the Scottish ballad of the same title
- Robin McKinley's Deerskin (1994) a retelling of Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin
- Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995) a parallel novel of The Wizard of Oz based upon the writings of L. Frank Baum
- Sophie Masson's Carabas (US title Serafin) (1996) based on Puss in Boots
- Gregory Frost's Fitcher's Brides (2002) a retelling of the Bluebeard / Fitcher's Bird fairy tale
- Louise Murphy's The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (2003)
- Edith Pattou's East (2003) based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl (2003) based on The Goose Girl tale collected by the Grimm Brothers
- Kathryn Davis's The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (2003) a contemporary American treatment of the Hans Andersen story
- Elizabeth C. Bunce's A Curse Dark as Gold (2008) based on Rumpelstiltskin
- Juliet Marillier's Wildwood Dancing (2008) based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses and The Frog Prince
- Suzanne Weyn's The Night Dance (2008) based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Jessica Day George's Princess of the Midnight Ball (2009) based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Jackson Pearce's Sisters Red (2010), based on Little Red Riding Hood; Sweetly (2011), based on Hansel and Gretel; and Fathomless (2012), a retelling of The Little Mermaid.
- Heather Dixon's Entwined (2011), based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Jessica Day George's Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (2011), based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Multiple
- Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979) (stories)
- Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge (1981)
- Tanith Lee's Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) a collection of short stories, all fairytale fantasies, many of them revisionist
- Francesca Lia Block's The Rose and the Beast (1993) (stories)
- Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch (1993) (stories)
- Berlie Doherty's The Vinegar Jar (1994) draws on several tales from Grimm
- Rebecca Lickiss's Never After (2002) comic fantasy including elements of Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Frog Prince, and The Princess and the Pea
- Annette Marie Hyder's The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow (2007) short stories and poems inspired and informed by fairy tales, folklore and mythology
- Cornelia Funke's Reckless (2010) draws on several of Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Katie Farris's boysgirls (2011), short stories which include retellings
See also
- List of fairy tales, linking to various individual fairy tales' pages, several of which list fairytale fantasies among their variants
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