Re: RARA-AVIS: Noir kiddie lit

From: T S ( leptokurtosis@hotmail.com)
Date: 26 Mar 2002


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)
>
>
>--
># To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
># majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version.
># The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .

_________________________________________________________________ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

--
# To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
# majordomo@icomm.ca.  This will not work for the digest version.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 26 Mar 2002 EST