This list of fairytale fantasies contains an illustrative list of fairytale fantasy works.
Original Fairytale Works
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine (1811) E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (1816) George MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind (1871) George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872) Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904: play) (1911: novel) 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) Jay Williams's The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales (1979) M. M. Kaye's The Ordinary Princess (1980) Judy Corbalis's The Wrestling Princess and other stories (1986) Susan Price's The Ghost Drum (1987) Neil Gaiman's Stardust (1999) Clare B. Dunkle's The Hollow Kingdom (2003)
Retellings Beauty and the Beast Robin McKinley's Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978) Angela Carter's "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride" in The Bloody Chamber (1979) Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter (1997) Donna Jo Napoli's Beast (2000) Alex Flinn's Beastly (2007) Cameron Dokey's Belle (2008) Juliet Marillier's Heart's Blood (2009) Rosamund Hodge's Cruel Beauty (2014) Naomi Novik's Uprooted (2015) Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) Brigid Kemmerer's A Curse So Dark and Lonely (2019)
Rapunzel Nicholas Stuart Gray's The Stone Cage (1963) Adele Geras's The Tower Room (1990) (Book 1 in the Egerton Hall Trilogy) Donna Jo Napoli's Zel (1996) Cameron Dokey's Golden (2006) Kate Forsyth's Bitter Greens (2012) Marissa Meyer's Cress (2014), third book in the Lunar Chronicles
The Little Mermaid Osamu Tezuka's Angel's Hill (1960) Rosa Guy's My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl (1985) Alice Hoffman's Aquamarine (2001) Debbie Viguié's Midnight Pearls (2003) Jim C. Hines's The Mermaid's Madness (2009) LeAnn Neal Reilly's The Mermaid's Pendant (2010) Carolyn Turgeon's Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale (2011) Jackson Pearce's Fathomless (2012) L.A. Witt's Ripples and Waves: A Queer Retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (2019) Natasha Bowen's Skin of the Sea (2021)
Sleeping Beauty
Anne Rice’s The Sleeping Beauty Quartet (1983-2015) Adele Geras's Watching the Roses (1991) (Book 2 in the Egerton Hall Trilogy) Jane Yolen's Briar Rose (1992) Martha Wells' "Thorns" (Realms of Fantasy, 1995) Robert Coover's Briar Rose (1996) Orson Scott Card's Enchantment (1999) Sophie Masson's Clementine (1999) Robin McKinley's Spindle's End (2000) Diane Zahler's Sleeping Beauty’s Daughters (2013) Cindy Pham's The Secret World of Briar Rose (2026)
Rumpelstiltskin Eleanor Farjeon's The Silver Curlew (play, 1949; novel, 1953) Elizabeth C. Bunce's A Curse Dark as Gold (2008) Liesl Shurtliff's Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin (2014) Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver (2018)
The Wild Swans Nicholas Stuart Gray's The Seventh Swan (1962), about the brother left with a swan's wing for an arm Peg Kerr's The Wild Swans (1999) Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest (2000) Diane Zahler's Princess of the Wild Swans (2012)
Snow White Adele Geras's Pictures of the Night (1992) (Book 3 in the Egerton Hall Trilogy) Tanith Lee's White as Snow, a dark retelling (2000) Gregory Maguire's Mirror, Mirror (2003) Gail Carson Levine's Fairest (2006) Jane Yolen's Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All, a retelling set in early twentieth-century Appalachia (2011) Marissa Meyer's Fairest (2015), book in the Lunar Chronicles
Marissa Meyer's Winter (2015), fourth book in the Lunar Chronicles
Pied Piper of Hamelin Delia Huddy's Time Piper (1984) Jane Lindskold's The Pipes of Orpheus (1995) Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (2001) Adam McCune & Keith McCune's The Rats of Hamelin (2005) Meg Harper's Piper (2007)
Cinderella Eleanor Farjeon's The Glass Slipper (play, 1944; novelization, 1955) Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted (1997) Gregory Maguire's Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999) Margaret Peterson Haddix's Just Ella (1999) Diane Stanley's Bella at Midnight (2006) Jessica Day George's Princess of Glass (2010) Marissa Meyer's Cinder (2012), first book in the Lunar Chronicles Mercedes Lackey's The Fairy Godmother: The First Five Hundred Kingdoms Novel of Magic and Romance (2016) Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella is Dead (2020)
The Twelve Dancing Princesses Juliet Marillier's Wildwood Dancing (2008) also based on The Frog Prince Suzanne Weyn's The Night Dance (2008) Jessica Day George's Princess of the Midnight Ball (2009) Heather Dixon's Entwined (2011)
The Snow Queen Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen (1980) using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Eileen Kernaghan's The Snow Queen (2000) combining Andersen's Snow Queen and the Kalevala
Other tales Katharine Mary Briggs's Kate Crackernuts (1963) based on the Scottish fairy tale "Kate Crackernuts" James Reeves's The Cold Flame (1967), a retelling of the Grimm tale "The Blue Light" 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" Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995) a parallel novel of The Wizard of Oz based upon the writings of L. Frank Baum Sophie Masson's Carabas (US title Serafin) (1996) based on "Puss in Boots" Gregory Frost's Fitcher's Brides (2002) a retelling of the "Bluebeard" / "Fitcher's Bird" fairy tale Louise Murphy's The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (2003) Edith Pattou's East (2003) based on "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl (2003) based on "The Goose Girl" tale collected by the Grimm Brothers Kathryn Davis's The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (2003) a contemporary American treatment of the Hans Andersen story Jackson Pearce's Sisters Red (2010), based on "Little Red Riding Hood"; Sweetly (2011), based on "Hansel and Gretel"; and Fathomless (2012), a retelling of "The Little Mermaid". Diane Zahler's A True Princess (2010), based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea" Jessica Day George's Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (2011), based on "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" Marissa Meyer's Scarlet (2013), based on "Little Red Riding Hood", second book in Lunar Chronicles series Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die (2014), based on the The Wizard of Oz
Multiple Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979) (stories) Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge (1981) 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 Pedro Bandeira's O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha (1986), draws on multiple fairy tales Francesca Lia Block's The Rose and the Beast (1993) (stories) Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch (1993) (stories) Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Snow White, Blood Red (1993), Black Thorn, White Rose (1994), and Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995) Berlie Doherty's The Vinegar Jar (1994) draws on several tales from Grimm Cornelia Funke's Reckless (2010) draws on several of Grimm's Fairy Tales Katie Farris's boysgirls (2011), short stories which include retellings Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom series (2012 – 2014), based on several Grim's fairy tales Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy (2017–2019), based on Russian folklore
See also List of fairy tales, linking to various individual fairy tales' pages, several of which list fairytale fantasies among their variants Once Upon a Time, a series of novels by various authors, mainly new retellings of fairy tales
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