A fairly ubiquitous childhood experience, fairy tales have long served as a repository of delight and fascination for young children. However, through careful analysis of the source material that modern fairy tales ostensibly seek to retell, Sharon Sandler ’25 reveals the dark and even grotesque underbelly of these seemingly innocent stories. Through thick and thin — that is, disturbing and even more disturbing — Sharon braves the depths of the Brothers Grimm’s twisted tales, tracing their problematic ties to violence, incest, cannibalism, misogyny, and even the rise of Nazism.