Love-bombing, as it's often called, is a common manipulation technique that can leave you feeling overwhelmed. Psychologist ...

Of course, fairy tales have been around for as long as we've had puberty, or storytelling, or dark, wolf-infested woods. They've never quite gone out of style.

A tale of three witches, Red Riding Hood, and Goldilocks--these are the fairy tale stories that make up the plot of the horror anthology Deadtime Stories.In an attempt to calm his rebel nephew ...

It's well-known that our favorite fairy tales started out darker than the ones Disney animators brought to life. But you might be surprised by how much darker the originals were. For the first ...

Fairy Tales Started Dark, Got Cute, and Are Now Getting Dark Again. The action-packed 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is less a subversion of an old story than a return to one.

The main characters of fairy tales are often not only without mothers, but also without supportive women to turn to, period. Instead, female fairy tale characters are in competition, whether for ...

T he clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...

Fairy tales connect with us. We see ourselves in fairytales. We long to be as kind as Cinderella, as patient as Belle and sometimes as grumpy as Grumpy. We get attached to the characters because we ...

FAIRY TALE, by Stephen King Stephen King is no stranger to the portal fantasy genre, or to the kinds of young, unwitting protagonists who end up traveling to other worlds.