Dark Fairytales.

Grimm. Andersen. Perrault. Afanasyev. The fairytales as they were — before Disney sold them back to us with a happy ending.

The premise

For three hundred years the Brothers Grimm wrote down what villagers actually told each other at night. Perrault did it in France. Andersen in Denmark. Afanasyev in Russia. None of them were writing for children.

Then Disney bought the rights. Red Riding Hood got a hunter. The Little Mermaid got her prince. Cinderella got a glass slipper instead of the birds pecking out her stepsisters' eyes.

Dark Fairytales gives them back their teeth. Every Thursday one tale drops as an anime short on @TheExorcista. The Exorcista opens each episode as the Dark Fairy — black wings, silver crown, a single candle — and the story begins.

★ Launches Halloween · October 30, 2026

First Season · 10 Tales

The ten originals. In their original teeth.

Source texts: Brothers Grimm (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 1812), Charles Perrault (Histoires ou contes du temps passé, 1697), Hans Christian Andersen (Eventyr, 1837), Giambattista Basile (Pentamerone, 1634), Alexander Afanasyev (Russian Fairy Tales, 1855).

Tale 01

Red Riding Hood

A predator story the Grimms wrote ten years before any wolf appeared.

Tale 02

The Little Mermaid

She doesn't get the prince. She dissolves into sea foam. Hans Christian Andersen, 1837.

Tale 03

Bluebeard

Six locked rooms. Six missing brides. Perrault, 1697.

Tale 04

Baba Yaga

The witch in the woods gets her due. The Slavic original — not the children's version.

Tale 05

Hansel & Gretel

Famine. A mother who leaves them. An oven that was always the point.

Tale 06

Sleeping Beauty

Giambattista Basile, 1634. She does not wake up to a kiss.

Tale 07

Snow White

Iron shoes heated red-hot. Dance until you die. Brothers Grimm, uncensored.

Tale 08

The Pied Piper

Every child in Hamelin. 1284. Historical record. No explanation.

Tale 09

Rumpelstiltskin

The deal you can never unmake — and the child you can never get back.

Tale 10

Cinderella

The stepsisters cut their toes off. The birds peck their eyes out. Grimm, Tale 21.

The Dark Fairy cold-open

Every tale opens the same way: a single frame. Victoria — black corset, torn chiffon, crow feathers, silver moon pendant — sits at a candlelit desk in a dark library. She turns to the camera and says the tale's true name. The candle snuffs. The tale begins.

At the end she returns. One line. One warning. Out.

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