An evil queen plotting to murder her stepdaughter ISN’T the most disturbing thing about this fairy tale. Plus, the huntsman is no hero, the magic mirror seems like it could be a lot more useful, and nobody cares about the OG queen.
A duke goes to Hell and plays cards with the Devil to win back his soul.
Plus, Poe goes overboard with the French, and I’m officially worried about this early stretch of his stories.
Poe’s first story, about a boy and his horse. Except the boy is a sociopath, the horse is possessed, and there’s some real unhealthy obsession going on.
A handsome young psychic enacts a bold–or stupid–plan in a house haunted by the worst kind of violent ghosts.
They don’t like it. And they want to tell their real stories–even if it means carving their own Book of Blood.
Tim Matassa
