Back to Blog
Snow glass apples colleen doran6/27/2023 ![]() I would argue many of the ingredients are right there in the fairy tale. You might wonder how Neil Gaiman and I would independently come up with the idea of a vampire Snow White. She’ll create blood-laced poison apples for her stepdaughter. ![]() The queen sets a plan in motion to save her land and the fair from Snow White. When people enter the woods, she attacks and kills them. Looking in her scrying mirror, the queen realizes that Snow White is still alive. The years pass, but fewer and fewer people cross the woods to visit the spring fair. She sees Snow White for the danger she is, orders her heart cut out and her body taken to the woods. Over time, the king fades and dies, which is how the young woman becomes queen. There, she discovers his vampire daughter, who mostly keeps to herself. The king marries the young woman and brings her home. We learn that the former king went to the woods and fell in love with a beautiful young woman after his wife had died. ![]() In this case, the fairy tale is told from the point of view of Snow White’s stepmother, the queen. Of course, I picked up the book right away. Not only that, it looked like Snow White was portrayed as a vampire. Reading the back and then browsing the interior, I soon discovered this was also a retelling of Snow White. ![]() On a recent trip to a bookstore, I found the 2019 graphic novel Snow, Glass, Apples written by Neil Gaiman with art by Colleen Doran. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |