Red Wolf's Room

Photo by  Alisa Anton  on  Unsplash People have been longing for fall all through August on Instagram, and I've been listening to autumn ambiences and music, including Nancy Drew: Midnight in Salem 's soundtrack . I thought I'd delve into some old and new stories that bring about the dark, stormy, spooky, and magical atmosphere that we all love about fall. --Spoilers Ahead-- Photo by  m wrona  on  Unsplash Gothic Reads I lean more towards Gothic literature, for example, poetry of the Romantics. I like a certain level of scariness, but a lot of the times, especially in the 2000s, people mix scary with gory, which I hate. They are two different things. It's the same thing with Halloween decorations. Police crime tape is not Halloween. Growing up, it was not a decoration. It's related to gory true crime stuff, not Halloween. It's why I hate Halloween. People jump to gross stuff when that's not what Halloween was originally about. But I digress. Dracula &...

You 're probably aware of the trend nowadays where stories are told and retold in new ways; now is the age of story recycling. Look at the super hero films, like Spiderman and Batman. The same thing is happening in the book industry: fairy tales are constantly rewritten from a new perspective, like that of the villain. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig is a fairy tale retelling, but it's one that focuses on a lesser-known tale: Grimm's The Twelve Dancing Princesses . I read this story when I was young; it was part of a book that was paired with a more original telling of Hans Christen Andersen's The Little Mermaid . Show your  support for books and reading . The Original Story of The Twelve Princesses The King of twelve princesses finds that his daughters' shoes are constantly in tatters and they are always tired, yet he knows they do not venture out of the castle. Even when he locks their doors at night, nothing changes, so the King makes a Roy...