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The Weird meets the Wyrd in these chilling,
otherworldly retellings of the eponymous brothers’
best fairy tales.
Artist John Kenn Mortensen returns to the Fantagraphics catalogue
like a lich haunting the living with his mastery over the dark arts.
Meanwhile, authors Kenneth Bøgh Andersen and Benni Bødker
split yarn-spinning duties to reanimate perennials like “Hansel
and Gretel” and obscure threads like “Fitcher’s Bird” alike.
These interpretations aren’t out to turn the classic tales on
their head; instead, they dig into the eldritch roots of these fables,
hearkening to a superstitious and dangerous time. When brigands
and plague were as much a threat as bewitching fairies and ferocious beasties. Permeating throughout are Mortensen’s exquisitely
eerie renderings, distilling a dread that hovers just overhead, like a tree
full of hanged men in a primeval forest.
Intrepid and fearful, shrewd and greedy alike are disfigured,
devoured, bedeviled. Only the toughest will come out the other end
stronger for it. These are fairy tales for those who would rather trade
in happily-ever-after for the uneasy relief that (un)settles upon waking
from a nightmare; for those who don’t listen when they’re told to follow
the beaten path; who don’t care to leave breadcrumbs as they go.
Seek out GRIMM, but don’t get lost on the way.