It's a genius idea, and the text by King and illustrations by Sendak offer some marvelous moments -- but also some flaws.

“Hansel and Gretel” has been re-told hundreds of times in a variety of formats, from oral folktale to print text to film. Traditional fairy tales are often brushed off because of their misogynistic ...

Via is a cinephile and a bookworm who loves fantasy and cozy gaming as well as talking about pop culture both online and offline. The famous Hansel And Gretel fairy tale inspired many great fantasy TV ...

Iconic horror writer Stephen King has reimagined a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale: “Hansel and Gretel.” A major ...

When the Brothers Grimm wrote down centuries of Germanic folklore in the early 1800s, they were filled with violence, gore and depravity. Unlike the more sanitized 20 th century revisions of these ...

The cover of "Hansel and Gretel.: (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, courtesy of HarperCollins) Iconic horror writer Stephen King has reimagined a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale: “Hansel and Gretel.” ...

Dark is an understatement here, in the black cavernous underground space of the Linbury Studio Theatre. Jon Bausor’s highly effective set bisects the stalls, bringing the audience right into Hansel ...

Tomorrow is “Gingerbread House Day.” (No, really. It is.) And when I think of gingerbread houses, I think of Hansel and Gretel. And when I think of Hansel and Gretel, I think of Hansel and Gretel: ...

“The idea is, they’ve grown up and they hunt witches,” said producer Adam McKay in 2010. “It’s a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there’s pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old ...

It is now nestled among dozens of apple trees and conifers in the picturesque village of Yarpole, Herefordshire.