![]() ![]() ![]() With its melancholy shading, Lee's new twist on an old tale is sure to engage fans of dark fantasy. Lee casts the evil queen in a sympathetic light, depicting her as a tortured soul who in later years begins to question her dark fate. She later bears him a girl, Candacis, whom she immediately shuns as an incarnation of evil, mumbling death spells as the infant tries to suckle her. Depending on how you flesh out the rest of the tale, this could either be the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, or the fairy tale Snow White. Draco forces Arpazia to travel with him and his barbaric army. Originally titled 'Snowdrop' and published in Kinderund Hausmarchen in 1812, the Grimms' 'Snow White' is a darker, chillier story than the musical Disney cartoon, yet it too had been cleaned up for publication, edited to emphasize the good Protestant values held by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Soon after he has her sister, Lilca, hanged because Lilca betrayed the castle. ![]() The evil queen, Arpazia, first appears as an innocent princess of 14, who is terrified when Draco, a rising new leader, conquers her father's castle and rapes her. Drawing on the sex and violence implicit in the original fairy tale, Lee gives a modern, introspective angle to the classic story. Horror and fantasy veteran Lee, author of such adult fairy tale collections as Red as Blood and Forests of the Night, offers an enticingly dark and seductive reworking of ""Snow White"" that echoes the macabre ambience of the Brothers Grimm. ![]()
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