These films take classic fairy tale stories or tropes and turn them into horrifying viewing experiences.

From rags to riches and beasts to beanstalks, these are the popular fairy tales and folktales that shape our happily ever afters.

Which fairy tale character would you want to be, and how would you change the story? Photo: Shutterstock Read the responses to this week’s Write to Win prompt, and choose the answer you like most.

Old-school fairy tales were decidedly darker than Disney would have you believe, full of allegory and cannibalism, gruesome death, and unheeded warnings. In every tale, a lesson and a zodiac archet… ...

Stephen King has written before about how stories can save your life. He did it most nakedly in his memoir/craft guide On Writing, but Misery is also a pretty open metaphor for the power of ...

After two years in development, the adaptation of Stephen King's Fairy Tale is becoming a miniseries instead of a movie.

Stephen King's "Fairy Tale" (Scribner, 608 pp.) has unseated the queens. After an entire summer of Colleen Hoover's "It Ends With Us" and "Verity" and Delia Owens' "Where the Crawdads Sing" owning ...