List of fairytale fantasies

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)

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)

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)

Rumpelstiltskin

 * Eleanor Farjeon's The Silver Curlew (play, 1949; novel, 1953)
 * Elizabeth C. Bunce's A Curse Dark as Gold (2008)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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
 * Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen (1980) using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
 * 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.
 * Jessica Day George's Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (2011), based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon

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
 * 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