A review by bluenicorn
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

3.0

I liked this- not all of the stories were great, but that's to be expected in any short story collection, right? What I liked is that there was a good mix of the grotesque and the scary, but also what I think is even more integral to good scary fairy tales: strange, dream-like, and other-worldly qualities. I don't know how much of the strangeness is because the original stories were in Russian, and perhaps they rely on some elements of traditional Russian fairy tales/tradition, or just due to the author's creativity. A nice departure though- good to read.