Grimm's Horrible Fairy Tales

This book is not for children.
This is not a collection of fairy tales, but a chest with forbidden artifacts. Inside are 25 authentic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, heard from the lips of peasant storytellers - with calluses on their hands and madness in their voices. These are texts not for consolation, but for dedication.

The translation was made especially for this edition - from the original German editions of 1812-1857. Without censorship. Without embellishment. Without borrowings from pre-revolutionary or adapted versions.

Here mothers have their hands chopped off for lullabies ("The Girl Without Hands"), sisters brew potions from the nails of their rivals ("The White and Black Bride"), and suitors collect the fingers of their brides like jewelry ("The Robber Bridegroom").

Each story is a cast of time, in which death was the midwife, and hunger was the main storyteller.

The peculiarity of the edition is not only the fairy tales themselves, but also the shadows between the lines.
After each story there are footnotes written by the light of a tallow candle. They reveal the motives, everyday life and symbolism - everything that cannot be explained in words, but can be felt with the skin.

This is a book for those who are ready to burn their childhood memories.
For those who are looking not for fairy tales, but for the truth. Raw. Smelling of tar and ash.
Close the cover - and you will hear the pages whispering behind your back.