While not a "story" Edward Gorey's "The Bashful CrumTinies"
(spelling ?) is about as dark and erie as it gets next to
Grimm. Tonio
>From: "Doug Hoffman, MD" <
hoffmand@cc.northcoast.com>
>Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To: Rara <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Noir kiddie lit
>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:48:25 -0800
>
>The recent thread on cross-genre noir/hb (science
fiction and fantasy)
>got me to thinkin... What would the cross-genre
examples be for other
>genres?
>
>How about children's literature? I could only think
of one example, and
>that one is obscure: Julia Cunningham's _Dorp Dead_
(yes, that's how
>it's spelled), about an orphan who comes under the
sway of a rather
>sinister guardian. There must be other examples (more
'popular' ones
>than _Dorp Dead_), but I'm at a loss.
>
>Of course, most fairy tales in general (and the
brothers Grimm in
>particular) are very dark, as are most of Roald
Dahl's books. For
>example, consider _The Witches_, which was made into
a very good movie
>with Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch. At the
story's end, the
>boy (who remains a mouse--no reprieve, as in the
movie) and his
>grandmother make plans for the genocide of witches
everywhere (this was
>dropped for the movie). In _James and the Giant
Peach_, James' evil
>aunts are crushed to death by the peach (again, this
gets watered down
>in the movie)... but the story becomes too
lighthearted after that.
>
>Oh! I thought of another good one: _There's a Hair in
my Dirt_, by
>Gary Larson. (The cartoonist.) If you can find a copy
of this gem, buy
>it!
>
>
>Doug Hoffman
>
>(always looking for suitable reading material for my
very dark
>6-year-old)
>
>
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