![]() ![]() A young girl named Ilsa, who can see Death, spends a night with him and learns his soul-harvesting ways. Three sisters prick their fingers and shed their blood on a briar patch gravesite in exchange for dreams of their future husbands. Another young woman must use her sister’s life blood to paint a doorway to a dark, empty dimension of freedom. She must seek out her imprisoned mother and cut off her hand if she hopes to set her free. We read, for instance, of a young girl named Hansa who is the product of a seagoing man and a star. ![]() The dozen fairy tales collected here are savage, angry, bitter and cruel. When that anthology was published in our world, its characters escaped from the pages into our reality. Alice’s grandmother, Althea Proserpine, was said to have authored a notorious collection of dark and twisted short stories called Tales From the Hinterland. Melissa Albert’s book The Hazel Wood introduced readers to its protagonist hero Alice, as well as a mystical other-world called the Hinterland. ![]()
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