children’s stories reinterpreted by horror writers
October 18, 2022 by Wrong Hands
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I can’t believe I never saw these maniacal murders for what they actually were!
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Brilliant!*
Your cartoon triggered a memory of a Stephen King article that I read in a late 1970s/early 1980s TV Guide article in which he points out that many children’s stories are really horror stories, or have elements of horror that are just as scary – or even more so – than anything King himself could dream up. (One work he cited was Snow White, both in the Brothers Grimm version and in Walt Disney’s 1930s classic.)
* Don’t let this compliment go to your head, John!
(Seriously, though. This is a brilliant cartoon.)
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Don’t worry, compliments rarely go to my head – I generally only remember the bad stuff, never the good. And, yes, most children’s stories are strangely macabre. Disney whitewashed most of them, but the original texts are horrifying.
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Great ideas John!
Cheers Mike (former HarperCollins rep)
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Thanks Mike! Hope all is well.
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Fantastic!
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Wait, what… ?
I believed this was common knowledge…
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Finishing the tales… I know you want to…
3 little pigs- they buried the Wolf grifter underneath the threshold of their house and could hear his heart beating at night.
Hansel unt Gretel – kept getting thinner til they wasted away.
Sleeping Beauty – near Necromancer stuff -Shelley tettered on conventional fringe.
Cartoonists, an integral part of society tracing back to the Ancient Egyptians, prominent in Georgian and Regency periods and in the 21st century…so clever, John!
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Nicely done! Always appreciate the input.
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LOVE IT!
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Outstanding. Particularly like Reservoir Pigs.
Not exactly horror, but…
Cinderella
Poverty stricken fraudster uses supernatural means to defraud aristocrat.
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Hahaha, Mister Pink, Mister Pink and…um…Mister Pink.
There’s definitely something sinister about Cinderella.
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This sure has enlightened me more about this specific aspect. Thank you!
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