Twisted Fairy Tales

1) Red Riding Hood: Deep in the forest a little girl's singing can often be heard at dusk. For unwary
travelers who track the voice, they find a sweet little girl in a white cloak who seems to float along the
ground. She beckons to follow her into the forest as the sun sets, humming enchantingly along the way.
As the moon rises in the sky the little girl leads those who follow to a short path that ends in a
dilapidated cottage, where she disappears. Once the little girl disappears, out from the shadows leaps a
terrifyingly large wolf, much of its hair is tattered and matted with blood, chunks of flesh are missing
from its body as if hacked at with an axe.

2) Peter Pan: Myth says there is a secret forested valley that holds a village of kids, known as 'the valley
of lost children'. An immortal creature known as "the Pan" whom takes the form of a preteen boy often
wearing green. The Pan leads these lost children in all kinds of games and frivolity. The Pan loves pranks,
but absolutely hates adults though nothing is quite serious enough to damper The Pan's ever present
playful mood. One of The Pan's favorite games is "rescue", his shadow detaches from his body, and
seeks out someone to attack. Once a victim is found The Pan rushes in and fights off his own shadow to
"save" the poor hapless person. The Pan is notoriously known travel to populated places to trick or
convince children to follow him to his village where they can be without adults and frolic forever. That is
until a child becomes too old, then The Pan leads the child into the forest where his shadow consumes
the body of the kid, leaving only their animate shadow to frolic in the forest forever.

3) Cinderella: Everyone knows the story of Cinderella, fairy god mother, went to the ball, met the prince,
left her shoe, prince found her, and they lived happily ever after. However the story never really ended
there. Feeling spurned by the fairy god mother. Cinderella's step-mother and step-sisters sought out
their own magical aid for retribution. A curse was laid on Cinderella that day, one befitting her name.
She burst into flame. The flame wreath her body endlessly, but they do not harm her. Cinderella doesn't
feel the flames lick her skin however everything around her feels the burn. First the prince, and then the
castle. Soon much of the kingdom had turned to ash. Now Cinderella is the only living thing in the entire
kingdom. She mourns herself and her kingdom on her Throne of Ash in the Scorched Kingdom.

4) Beauty and the Beast : Many thought when the marriage was announced that the curse had been
broken, that Beast had been restored to human form. Unfortunately it wasn't. The curse was specific in
that Beast must find true love. Beauty never really loved Beast. After months of imprisonment she
devised a clever ruse to convince the Beast that she loved him. In the months after marrying Beast,
Beauty enacted her plan. She dominated the will of the wild animals in the kingdom with Beasts
influence, and drove them to the human settlements. The same people who had offered her up as
sacrifice to the Beast. Now with her wits and wiles she controls Beast and all the beasts of the newly
named 'Savage Kingdom'. Rumor has it she often takes long walks through the untamed wilderness with
her husband in a choke collar on a thick chain.

5) Sleeping Beauty: "In repose our Princess lays eternally." Cursed to sleep forever a Princess whose
name is long forgotten from kingdom long since destroyed, once lay upon a stone pedestal slab under a
glass dome in a quiet mountain forest, with the former quoted statement inscribed upon it. Over the
centuries a kingdom has appeared around the Princess, where she lay displayed in great hall of the
kingdom's castle. However it was not people who moved into the area and built this kingdom, but is
simply a dream figment of the sleeping Princess. No one and nothing in the kingdom is real regardless of
how it appears. Everything looks and feels real, but food does not offer sustenance, beds do not offer
comfort, and sleep is filled with nightmarish visions. Most of the denizens of the kingdom including the
king himself are not aware that they are not flesh and blood, all they know as far as the curse is
concerned is that the Princess must never be awakened, and will fight to the death to prevent it.

6) Rip van Winkle: They say that a man went up a mountain and slept for a hundred years. They say
wrong. Mountain folk know how to organize a search party. No, Winkle slept a few hours, then awoke
confused and out of time. Or rather, it looked like Winkle. But it wasn't. It was the spirit of his great-
grandfather. That was disturbing enough, but after a few days Winkle's body underwent another change
in ownership. Now he was inhabited by a two-hundred-year-old ancestor, and they started having
difficulty understanding his language. By the time the full moon rose, Winkle had become a Roman
deserter; thinking himself surrounded by barbarians he killed his confused family and ran into the
wilderness. After a few months the howling began. Whatever's in Winkle now is no human spirit.

7) The Seven Dwarves: Deep in the primordial woods sits a cabin, where dwell seven dwarves. They've
been there more or less since the forest was planted, and the forest is older than humanity. The cabin is
filled with riches and wondrous works of engineering: gold, diamonds, rare stones for which you have no
names. And it's all cursed. If you get your hands on it, whether by theft or trade or payment for services
rendered, you will soon fall into a deep slumber. Your skin will turn to crystal, and slowly but surely you
will grow scales - and fangs - and wings - and soon you will become one of the corpse-gnawers, a
barrow-worm who knows only appetite for gold and flesh. The only thing that isn't cursed is their meal:
stale bread, cheese, lemons and a thin, vinegar-ish wine. That's safe.

8) Little Mermaid: On the edge of the ocean rests a fathomless lake. In this lake a large flat rock sits near
the north end of the shore jutting out of the water. Tales say a woman with the tail of a fish where her
legs should be, often sits upon the rock singing. They say she is looking for love from a human and lure
men into the lake, then in efforts to keep them she takes them down into the depths. They are only
seen again when their bloated bodies float to the surface, drowned.

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