Disney’s latest animated hit, Frozen, offers eye-popping animation, but the plot will be familiar to anyone who knows their fairytales—it’s based on Hans Christian Anderson’s 1845 story The Snow Queen (though there’s no pop culture–savvy snowman in the original…sorry). Putting a new twist on an enduring legend is, of course, nothing new. Here are eight […]
Many stories and novels published today use already known/established monsters, ones with an embedded history thanks to folktales from around the world, but work to give them a new or different twist. Monsters such as the kraken, vampires, selkies, kitsune, griffins, harpies, chimera, werewolves, unicorns, and more. Q: What are some of your favorite stories […]
Sheri S. Tepper died on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at the age of 87. Like many women of her generation, she began her writing career later in life; her first novels were published in her 50s. Despite her late start, she wrote loads of books: dozens of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery novels populated her busy […]