There comes a point in everyone’s life when we are told to put away the toys and start taking ourselves seriously, since childhood activities do have to come to an end at some point. For whatever reason, there’s a pervasive belief that imagination is reserved only for those who have the privilege of luxuriating in…
Tag: Fantasy
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
When speaking about what precisely drew her to build a career out of revising classic fairytales by rewriting them as more challenging, mature works (as evident by her timeless masterpiece The Bloody Chamber), Angela Carter essentially described her process as being one of taking these stories shared across generational and geographical boundaries, and underlining that…
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Every small town has its secrets lurking beneath the idyllic surface. There have been so many works that situate themselves in quaint hamlets and use these settings as the foundation for examinations of the darker and more perverse side of society, usually being fashioned as darkly satirical subversions of common perceptions of small-town life. One…
