A review by thisisn8
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

4.0

Petrushevskaya beautifully captures the desperation, loneliness, and sorrow that can be so essential to old-style fairy tales. While this book is seldom scary, there are some legitimately haunting gems among the collection. The not-so-haunting pieces tend to carry a more solemn darkness that forces the reader to question his or her grip on reality, and at times, what reality is... at all. This is a brilliant and emotional book that does a sublime job of showing humanities many quests for meaning in times of crisis, and how often there either is no meaning, or the meaning comes through something that's at least vaguely supernatural. Read it. You will not be disappointed.