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Grimm's Unfiltered Fairy Tales: The Archival Horror Edition (Illustrated): Cannibalism, Dismemberment, and Censored Stories — Restored from 19th-Century Manuscripts

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English
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Fiction

This is not a children's book.

This is the Brothers Grimm as they were meant to be heard: raw, unflinching, and stripped of all sanitization. Here, the fairy tales return to their origins—oral folklore steeped in the brutality of peasant life, where punishment is grotesque, justice is arbitrary, and magic is a harbinger of dread, not wonder.

Inside the Codex of the Damned:

The Lost Transcripts New English translations of tales banned for 200 years: — A "Cinderella" where stepsisters carve their feet to fit the slipper — "The Juniper Tree" with its cannibalistic lullabies — Unpublished drafts where Snow White's "resurrection" is a necromantic ritual

Artifacts of Terror 200+ unretouched 19th-century engravings — gallows silhouettes, hag-mouths agape, villages choked by wolf-haunted forests. These aren't illustrations; they're psychological maps of pre-industrial dread.

Themes That Flay the Soul: ▫️ Scarred Flesh as Pedagogy Mothers who salt their children's wounds. Kings demanding a hundred severed fingers.

▫️ Magic as a Curse, Not a Gift Wells that grant wishes in exchange for blindness. Spindles that birth comas, not kisses.

▫️ Justice Without Witnesses Thieves boiled in their own greed. A "happy ending" is merely surviving to see dawn.

Why This Book Exists: Academic rigor meets gothic horror. Translated directly from Jakob Grimm's personal notes — including his annotations on how oral storytellers "sang" these tales to audiences half-mad with malnourishment. For collectors of forbidden folklore and lovers of Angela Carter's darkest prose.

© 2024 XSPO (Ebook): 9785501976511

Translators: Edgar Taylor, Marian Edwardes, Alexander Nemirov

Release date

Ebook: 19 June 2024

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