A collection of fairy tales without fairies, featuring sequels to Grimm classics, retellings of foreign legends and more than a few original tales from my own head.

Includes:

The wolf brutalized at the end of Little Red Riding Hood returns with robotic implants, desperate for revenge.

Snow White teeters on the edge of 40.

A Japanese fisherman saves a turtle and is rewarded two-fold: a guided tour of an underwater world and a shotgun marriage with a capricious princess.

Cinderella can't stop cleaning the palace.

Pirates of the Qing Dynasty era square up against a bold young nut-seller and a talking fox.

The legendary assassins of Alamut haunt a paranoid Sultan.

For every wicked act, a new white hair appears on a young woman's head.

And many more tales that, if summarised, would make this blurb go on forever.