List of fairytale fantasies
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This list of fairytale fantasies contains an illustrative list of fairytale fantasy works.
- George MacDonald's Phantastes (1858)
- George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
- George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
- Lord Dunsany's The Charwoman's Shadow (1926)
- James Thurber's Many Moons (1944)
- James Thurber's The 13 Clocks (1950)
- Robin McKinley's Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)
- Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen, using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same title
- Tanith Lee's Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) a collection of short stories, all fairytale fantasies, many of them revisionist.
- Kara Dalkey's The Nightingale (1988), based on "The Emperor and the Nightingale"
- Patricia Wrede's Snow White and Rose Red, (1989) based on the Grimm Brothers' tale of the same title, which is not Snow White.
- Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer (1990), based on the Scottish ballad of the same title
- Robin McKinley's Deerskin (1994) a retelling of Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin
- Donna Jo Napoli's Zel (1996), a retelling of "Rapunzel"
- Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter (1997), another retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"
- Robin McKinley's Spindle's End (2000), a retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"
- Rebecca Lickiss's Never After (2002), comic fantasy including elements of Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Frog Prince, and The Princess and the Pea
- Tanith Lee's White As Snow, a dark retelling of Snow White.
- Jane Yolen's Briar Rose (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty)
- Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (stories)
- Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch (stories)
- Robert Coover's Briar Rose (a post-modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty)
- Orson Scott Card's "Enchantment" (another retelling of Sleeping Beauty)
- Kathryn Davis' The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (a contemporary American treatment of this story)
- Berlie Doherty's The Vinegar Jar (draws on several tales from Grimms)
- Gregory Frost's Fitcher's Brides (a retelling of the Bluebeard / Fitcher's Bird fairy tale)
- Peg Kerr's The Wild Swans (a retelling of the Wild Swans / Seven Swans fairy tale)
- Juliette Marillier's Daughter of the Forest (a retelling of the Wild Swans / Seven Swans fairy tale)
- Gregory Maguire's Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (a retelling of Cinderella)
- Gregory Maguire's Mirror, Mirror (a retelling of Snow White)
- Louise Murphy's The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
- Sheri Tepper's Beauty
- Francesca Lia Block's The Rose and the Beast (stories)
Also see List of fairy tales, linking to various individual fairy tales' pages, several of which list fairytale fantasies among their variants.
