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What fairies are really like

This rings more true than most of the cutesy winged fairy stories I’ve seen. Beware!

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There, I said it. Dolls are really creepy. Not just strange dolls, dolls that are intentionally weird or kind of goth or old-fashioned (don’t even get me started on creepy puppets and marionettes, those will probably be another post altogether, because I love them even more), but old dolls you find in thrift stores and [...]

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In By The Eye

In By The Eye is a small film company that’s producing some extraordinary, beautiful work with mythic and fairytale themes. View the haunting “Brother and Sister” in its entirety. The film was adapted from the Teri Windling poem which was in turn inspired by the original Grimms tale. This quiet version, set mostly in the [...]

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“Unless we again begin to tell fairy tales and ghost stories before going to sleep and recounting our dreams upon waking, nothing more is to be expected of our Western civilization.” – Jan Svankmajer I discovered Czech surrealist stop-motion animator Jan Svankmajer many years ago when someone recommended I see his movie Alice (since those [...]

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