[Richards attempts to blend the world of Doctor Who with its expansive settings and numerous incarnations of the Doctor with fairy tales tropes and early literature plots. The Doctor, which incarnation varies per story, tends to play the role of fairy godmother, enchantress, or source of magic and/or salvation for the tales. The mash up is not entirely successful as some of the stories lose the elements that make the tales rich, but the attempt is often humorous. At times, the additional alien elements mean the precise fairy tale being retold becomes unclear. Stories included are “The Garden of Statues,” “Frozen Beauty,” “Cinderella and Secret Container,” “The Twins in the Wood,” “The Three Little Sontarans,” “Jak and the Wormhole,” “Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday,” “Little Rose Riding Hood,” “The Gingerbread Trap,” “The Scruffy Piper,” “Helana together with Beast,” “Andiba and the Four Slitheen,” “The Grief Collector,” “The Three Brother’s Gruff,” and “Sirgwain and the Green Knight.”] [Annotation by Martha M. Johnson-Olin]
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