The titles of these sinister stories are mostly familiar, but readers will be surprised by the gothic twists of plot and the weird, malevolent characters who inhabit them. The anthology's twenty eerily re-told tales include-- * Snow White * Rapunzel * Little Red Hood * The Cinder Wench * Beauty and the Beast * Pinocchio * The Goose Girl * The Pied Piper of Hamelin * and twelve more Well-known tales get gruesome revisions--in some cases bringing the stories closer to the dark, sinister ways they were first told centuries ago. For example, Cinderella becomes the Cinder Wench and her stepmother is more wicked and frightening than ever. Here are stories that only the bravest young readers will dare to delve into before bedtime. But fearless readers who thrive on chilling tales won't want to put this book down until they've reached the very last page. Appropriately ominous and shadowy color illustrations complement every story.