Little Red Riding Hood

Rural settings are often painted as scary in British folklore. Travis Fultz via Shutterstock The countryside is scary, right? All those dead-eyed sheep staring at you. The skeletal outlines of winter trees engulfed by the thickening mist. And that’s before yo…

Regular Tablet readers have heard me wail, multiple times, Enough with the Holocaust books for kids! Look, I am certainly not anti-Holocaust-education. In fact, Ive always maintained that its vital to teach the Holocaust in an age-appropriate, responsible wa…

University students have been given 'trigger warnings' about potentially upsetting scenes in classic fairytales. Lecturers admitted students were cautioned about 'violent material' contained in the famous children's stories by the Brothers Grimm. Their tale…

Let's get one thing straight: You can be whoever or whatever you want to be for Halloween, so long as you aren't being offensive or appropriative in the process. You don't necessarily need to look like exactly the person or character you're dressing up as, bu…

David Avallone’s Writer’s Commentary on Bettie Page’s Hallowe’en Special 2019, on sale now from Dynamite. I cant believe it was a year ago that we re-launched Bettie Page with a Halloween special, and a prelude to volume two of the series, AKA THE PRINCESS A…

I realize how provocative, absurd and even monstrous this question might sound, and yet ... does Israel need peace? The distinguishing element of the recent elections was obvious: they were built on hatred for the head of government and for a specific group …

Its hard to be the less successful brother, and thats pretty much what Capcom's Darkstalkersseries is. The series will always live in the shadow of the Street Fighter franchise...which is pretty appropriate because, you know, its all about darkness and shadow…

Stephen King is truly a legend of the horror genre. He has been publishing horror novels steadily since the release of Carrie in 1974, alongside countless shorts stores and novellas, and at this point it is impossible to imagine the modern horror genre with o…

New York's pooches put their best paws forward this weekend for the annual Halloween dog parade dressed in costumes that ranged from sweet to shockingly frightening, to the delight of dog-lovers across the city.  The 29th Annual Tompkins Square Dog Parade un…

The damsel in distress that gets swooped up by a handsome prince on a white stallion is not the kind of fairytale a Waikato author wants to read to her child. Jo Paterson has plucked classic fairytales and altered them to promote values and characteristics …