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Max Scialdone
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Coffee Bean Bookshelf
Coffee Bean Bookshelf rated it 12 years ago
True to the title, these short stories are dark. Don’t go into it expecting warm fuzzies and happy endings, because they don’t exist. That didn’t make them unlikable, though! These stories are full of myths, magic and a lot of imagination.What I love about collections of short stories is that it giv...
Literary Ames
Literary Ames rated it 12 years ago
One of the better anthologies I've read. My absolute favourite story in this collection is Life in a Shoe by Heidi R. Kling, one of the more faithful stories to it's original nursery rhyme -"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe".As Blue as the Sky and Just as Old by Nina Berry ★☆☆☆☆Based on "T...
Speculating on SpecFic
Speculating on SpecFic rated it 12 years ago
4.5/5An eerie collection of stories adapted from famous Mother Goose Rhymes, Two and Twenty Dark Tales gave me chills and some of the stories will haunt me for some time! It's amazing how authors have subverted the nature of the rhymes to something even darker than I could have ever imagined, and th...
The Social Potato Reviews
The Social Potato Reviews rated it 12 years ago
Can also be read on The Social Potato.Dark retellings of Mother Goose rhymes? Well, sign me up, s'il vous plaît! Thank you NetGalley for the copy :)There are a lot of stories in this anthology written by many talented authors who I applaud for successfully adapting nursery rhymes into dark stories t...
Reading Under the Willow Tree
Reading Under the Willow Tree rated it 12 years ago
For this review and more visit my blog Two and Twenty Dark Tales is an anthology made up of 20 stories by various different authors.I really enjoyed this anthology, I must admit that I was unsure about it at first but I am glad I took the plunge and read it. I am not all that familiar with nursery...
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