Not A Fairy Tale

You know the stories. At least, you think you do.

Beyond the castles, enchanted forests, magic mirrors, impossible bargains, and promises of happily ever after lies something much darker.

Not A Fairy Tale: Where Happily Ever After Ends brings together ten haunting retellings inspired by centuries of folklore, fairy tales, and historic storytelling traditions.

Inside, Snow White waits beside her mirror. Jack climbs toward something in the clouds. Stingy Jack bargains with the Devil. Forgotten kings, cursed daughters, desperate fathers, Death himself, and a blacksmith willing to challenge Hell are waiting in the shadows.

Some of these stories remain close to the tales that survived generations. Others wander much farther into the darkness.

From Snow White and Jack and the Beanstalk to The Juniper Tree, Godfather Death, The Girl Without Hands, and lesser-known tales nearly forgotten by modern audiences, this collection explores greed, jealousy, sacrifice, desperation, strange magic, and the terrible consequences of crossing lines that were never meant to be crossed.

Written for listeners who enjoy dark folklore, Grimm fairy tales, gothic fantasy, supernatural stories, and unsettling retellings of classic tales, Not A Fairy Tale invites you to step off the familiar path and discover what might be waiting in the fog.

The forest is familiar.

The path is not.

And this time...

Happily ever after isn’t guaranteed.