Anti-fairy tale
Fairy tale with a tragic ending, rather than a happy one From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An anti-fairy tale, also called anti-tale, is a fairy tale which, unlike an ordinary one, has a tragic, rather than a happy ending, with the antagonists winning and the protagonists losing at the end of the story. Whereas fairy tales paint a magical, utopian world, anti-fairy tales paint a dark world of nastiness and cruelty. Such stories incorporate horror, black comedy, mean-spirited practical jokes on innocent characters, sudden and often cruel plot twists, and biting satire.[1][2] The term (German: Antimärchen) was introduced by André Jolles[1] in his Einfache Formen (1930).[3]
Examples of anti-fairy tales include "The Fisherman and His Wife", and "The Swineherd".[1] A recent example is Fabien Vehlmann's graphic novel Beautiful Darkness.[4]
The term is also used to refer to remakes of traditional "happy" fairy tales into "unhappy" ones.[2]
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