Oddwood Shadow
The darker side of fairy tales, with twisted plots and gothic settings.
The oldest fairy tales were never gentle. Oddwood Shadow is where they live: dark fantasy, folk horror and gothic retellings for adults, where a bargain is a bargain, the woods keep what they take, and the darkness is survivable, mostly because of who you face it with.
The first Shadow titles are being finished now. Until they arrive, the Almanac has notes on the old tales behind them, and the Letters will tell you the day the first one lands.
What is coming
Retellings of the tales the nursery tidied up: the stepmothers, the bargains, the doors you were told not to open. Gothic houses that remember, villages that keep their own customs, and a few stories from older European woods. Expect dread rather than gore, and endings that close like a door.
Read around it meanwhile
Fairy tale retellings: why we keep rewriting Cinderella, on what the old stories were before they were made gentle.
Polish fairy tales and Slavic folklore, a field guide to one of the older traditions on the shelf.
For the lighter side of the same fairy tales, Oddwood Whimsy is one door along.