Revisiting Fairy Tales: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition edited and introduction by Jack Zipes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 568 pp. Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 288 pp. Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner. London, England: Oxford University Press, 2014. 226 pp.

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the

unwary and dungeons for the overbold.

J. R. R. Tolkien (1947)

Fairy tales fascinate the public, young and old. Despite vast changes in mores and beliefs, they fiercely persist. Their endurance is testified to by the fact that, in addition to the dozens of fairy-tale–inspired children's books that are published annually to unfailing profit, there appeared, between the years 2010 and 2015, at least one movie a year with a fairy-tale title or theme.† Fairy tales continue, moreover, to spawn a

robust scholarly literature. Over the past few years, three important works have appeared that may intrigue psychoanalysts, who are required by their professional duties to listen hour by hour to patients' stories and parse them for their many meanings. Paramount among recent volumes is the first translation into English—200 years after the fact—of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's original edition of fairy and folk tales, their Kinder- und Haus-Märchen (1812). The Complete First Edition: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm came out in 2014, and was joined a year later by fascinating new scholarship on the impact and afterlife of the tales by their eminent translator, Jack Zipes, whose contributi