What if the fairy tales we heard from childhood happen right here, right now, in our society?

In our contemporary adaptations of fairy tales, Thumbelina falls into a whirlpool of toxic positivity in order to escape from the male gaze; the emperor’s invisible “new clothes” become a ridiculous scripture; the kind Pea turns a girl into a “princess” who complains about everything; in the post-epidemic era, the Three Little Pigs is retold through three siblings in Taiwan fighting over inherited property; facing her parents’ divorce, a girl refuses to take off her red shoes, but then can never take them off again; and the cursed door from Bluebeard becomes a bug in video games.

Taking place in contemporary society, echoing gender, class, family, politics, and other problems, this is a collection of dark fairy tales told from Asian perspectives.