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Snow In Summer

Posted in Art, tagged Art, Beauty, Beauty & The Beast, Blog, books, Design, fairy tales, Fairytale, Features, Little Red Riding Hood, Seven Dwarves, Snow White on June 27, 2013| 1 Comment »

So far this month we have dared to peek through the looking-glass at some strange and beautiful interpretations of Beauty And The Beast and Little Red Riding Hood – now its Snow White’s turn.

The images below have been added to the permanent album “Faerie Lore & Fairy Tales”. Head to the Gallery tab to peruse them all…

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Beauty & The Beast

Little Red Riding Hood

Brutal Fairy Tales, Sexualized Innocence and Russia: Bunny Rogers, Shades of Berny (animalnewyork.com)
Into the Woods, 9: Wild Children (windling.typepad.com)
Upcoming Fairy Tale Adaptations (popinsomniacs.com)
Beauty & The Beast ~ A Tale As Old As Time (lilywight.com)

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Lego Fairy Tales

Posted in Lego, tagged Art, Arts, Beauty and the Beast, Design, Disney, fairy tales, Fairytale, Features, Galleries, Humour, Lego, Little Red Riding Hood, Sculpture, The Little Mermaid, toys on June 9, 2013| 26 Comments »

This month’s Lego fix features Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty & The Beast and a rather startled Little Mermaid.

Just hover over the images for extra information…

Lego makers urged to turn models’ angry frowns upside down (metro.co.uk)

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Beauty & The Beast ~ A Tale As Old As Time

Posted in Art, tagged Art, Arts, Beauty & The Beast, Beauty and the Beast, books, Disney, fairy tales, Fairytale, Galleries on June 7, 2013| 2 Comments »

It is time to pay a visit or re-acquaint yourself with The Arts & Arcana Gallery!

Throughout the month we’ll be adding some astonishing and thought-provoking new images to the album Faerie Lore & Fairy Tales beginning with Beauty & The Beast.

Only the finest art finds a place in The Arcade’s permanent collection. You’ll discover the Gallery tab at the top of the homepage or click the link at the end of the post to explore. Please leave your comments and share your favourites…

Click here to see more unique interpretations of Beauty & The Beast

Click here to explore The Arcade Of Arts & Arcana Gallery

First Look at Vincent Cassel in BEAUTY IN THE BEAST (geektyrant.com)
The Courtship of Mr Lyon, Angela Carter (bookloverssanctuary.wordpress.com)
Grim(m) Stories: Beauty and the Beast – A classic tale of Stockholm Syndrome (idonotwanttoruletheworld.wordpress.com)
‘Beauty And The Beast’ Renewed (huffingtonpost.com)

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Blue Faerie Art

Posted in Art, tagged Bill Willingham, Blue, Brian Froud, Fables, Fairy, Fairytale, Folklore, Gallery, Morgana, Pictures on September 18, 2012| 9 Comments »

Find more Faerie Lore & Fairy Tale images here – https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.174334199353858.37043.100003318388415&type=3&l=b8e3716a99

Shhhhhhh… It’s Silent September (lilywight.com)

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Pitch Black & Fey on Film. Little Red Riding Hood #1 (Inspired Fan Trailer).

Posted in Movies, Music, tagged Angela Carter, Angela Lansbury, Company of Wolves, David Warner, fairy tales, Fairytale, Films, Folklore, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Little Red Riding Hood, Movies, Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, werewolf, Wolf on April 13, 2012| 1 Comment »

Few Fairy Tales are as dark and multifaceted as Little Red’s.

Angela Carter wrote the screenplay for Neil Jordan’s lush and evocative adaptation of Carter’s own collected short writings and radio plays.

This wonderful fan trailer for The Company of Wolves is by the talented Hedge Labyrinth with music from the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack.

Thank heaven for little girls, they grow up in the most peculiar ways …

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Lots On Fairy Tales

Posted in Faerie, tagged Fairy, Fairytale, Folklore, Germany, Literature, Snow White, Tales, World Tales on March 30, 2012| 1 Comment »

A brilliant little film, such exciting news about the new cache of Fairy Tales and LOADS more Fairy stuff on its way!

World Weaver Press

Special fairy tale edition of our usual quick round-up of news and factoids, articles and more that struck our fancy, tickled our interest, and had us scratching our heads. For readers, writers, and genre fans of any form.

A cache of 500 folk tales were discovered in Germany recently, many of which have not been a part of our previously documented understanding of the folk tradition in Europe. From that trove, the fabulous tale of the “Turnip Princess” — which could easily be retitled “The Tao of the Turnip” — the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

This amazing bit of animation is a beautiful, bloody, Red Riding Hood becomes an interesting twisted-origin story of folk lore’s favorite caped crusader. The short film is titled simply “RED”:

RED from RED on Vimeo.

The film puts me in mind of one of Roald Dahl’s poems “Little Red Riding…

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