Before the stories were ripped from their horror roots, they were just right for scary, gory films. The early days of fairy tales weren't all rosy cheeks and puckered, pouting lips;

Traditional children's fairy tales are being replaced by modern bedtime stories - because parents believe they are politically incorrect and too scary for youngsters.

“The Not So Scary Fairy Tales, A Not So Haunted House for Children” returns to the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts, Oct. 25-28. Group tours travel through a winding maze of fantasy...

The Townsend Center for the Performing Arts is holding auditions for its October production of “The Not So Scary Fairy Tales, a Not So Scary Haunted House.”

This book contains 209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm. ... The etext appears to be based on the translation by Margaret Hunt called Grimm's Household Tales, but it is not identical to her edition.

The historic appeal of fairy tales to children has long been the inclusion of very, nasty, scary characters who do very bad things and then get punished in equally grisly ways.

Yet something important is lost when a child's introduction to fairy tales comes in such whitewashed form.

Plight and pain of prison children ... By Isuri Kaviratne, ... Children living in prison with their convicted mothers belong to the innocent victims’ category as they had not committed any crimes.

Neither was George HW Bush's speech, back in 1991, "scary" and yet they raked him over the coals for it. Was the author of this article equally enraged?

As PC parents say traditional nursery tales are too frightening ... why fairy stories should be scary (because that's what children want);