Blood-Stained Slippers : True Stories of Famine, Murder, and Folklore That Inspired Childhood Fables

The fairy tales we grew up with didn't float down from some dreamy kingdom. They were born out of hunger, desperation, political violence, and the very real people who had to survive those worlds. Blood-Stained Slippers pulls apart the polished versions and walks straight into the shadows behind Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, and more—revealing the messy, human truth that shaped them.T...