| | Frightful Fairytales |  | Author: Darcy Dame
Publisher: Ten Speed Pr
Category: Book
Buy New: $27.79
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5826825
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 1587611287
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781587611285
ASIN: 1587611287
Publication Date: March 2003
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Product Description
Frightful Fairytales by Dame Darcy Sinister storytelling has never been so delightful! Legendary comic book artist Dame Darcy delves deep into the cauldron of romantic horror with five haunting fables, each certain to entice you with enchanting damsels, charming lads and cads, and other beguiling characters. Each skillfully crafted tale is adorned with the Dames elaborate trademark illustrations, drawn in Victorian fashion, making this collection seem authentically from anothermore poisonousera. Detailed with alluring beauty, elegant imagination, and wicked humor, FRIGHTFUL FAIRYTALES unleashes ghastly mortals from the dark closet into your subconscious. But dont worry, its all happily ever after in the end, just like a fairytale should beyou just might want to sleep with the light on.
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 This book makes me squiggle with delight ! October 5, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful. Love, romance, lust, violence, horror, betrayl, mysticism, seduction, revenge, angst, twisted, wicked and jaw dropping. All of which describes the lovely Dame Darcy's illustration and writing style. If you are into all of the above with a victorian undertone you will love this book. She is like the young female version of Edward Gorey.....
Bravo! I can't wait till she releases another one.
 So So February 14, 2003
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
The illustrations in this are nice ( if a bit uneven in their quality throughout the book) but the prose is what suffers most. The words seem strained and for the most part are a little flat, a little basic. The stories seem like they wold have been better condensed as simple comics or picture books. The artwork is the main draw (all black and white illustrations inside) but some drawings seem more polished than others. There seems to be a span of 4 years between some of the dates on the drawings so the quality isn't consistent with some of the illustrations appearing rushed and dashed out. I guess this book will appeal mostly to those who already like the author's previous comics, but for those who aren't friends or fans, this was a disappointment.
Timeless and Twisted November 12, 2002
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dame Darcy is the coolest illustrator and comic book artist working today, period. I'm so glad she's branching out into book-sized books. This one makes a great gift for your favorite goth gal.
 A Greusome Delight! December 27, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a Meat Cake fan, then you will love this book. It has six original, "frightful" fairytales that are very much in line with the rest of Dame Darcy's work. If you are not familiar with Dame Darcy's work, but love traditional Grimm-like fairytales (a little disturbing, violent, and full of Gothic/Victorian charm) you will also enjoy this book. Aside from the wonderful stories, there is a generous amount of Dame Darcy's artwork. Almost every page has a black-and-white side-sketch or full illustration. Be warned though, these tales are not for the faint-of-heart - some greusome things do happen. The book is best read when you are alone in the house on a rainy day or up late-night by the fire.
 A Quick Read, Could Use More Illustrations December 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this after discovering that the Meat Cake Compilation is practically out of circulation. I'd say this is a nice little introduction to Dame Darcy, but I was hoping for more of a graphic novel or comic layout-- where as this is more like a storybook, with pictures appearing on pages of text.
The stories are simple and you can tell what her favorite words are because she tends to re-use them again and again... this shows her style off well, but I almost hoped for a more expanded vocabulary or just a greater variety of words.
All in all, not bad, but it makes me all the more interested to read the Meat Cake series to see how they differ.
SPOILER FOLLOWS
All of the stories, however, have happy endings, which honestly was not what I expected.
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