Overview

Once upon a time never paid rent.

Fairy tales got evicted from the castle — now they squat in cities, dance on runways, and riot in nightclubs.

In Grimm Remixed: Volume One – Couture, Curse, and Catastrophe, the Brothers Grimm are dragged out of the forest and into the underground: warehouses, squats, drag balls, queer communes. These are 25 retellings stitched together from rust, glitter, rage, and love.

Inside you’ll find stories with a cigarette burn on the page and eyeliner smudged across the margins:

Glitter Underground (The Little Folks’ Presents) — Vienna, 1999. Two squatters discover invisible helpers who fix pipes, leave strange gifts, and hate being photographed. Spoiler: magic and capitalism don’t mix.

The Twelve Lazy Servants (The Twelve Lazy Servants) — San Francisco, 1997. Twelve punks, one squat, zero motivation. The fire alarm is screaming, but so are they.

Where the Shell Hides Her (The Sea-Hare) — Amalfi Coast, 1996. A queen wires her villa with cameras and dares a wanderer to disappear. The sea has other ideas.

The Glow-Up at Haus of Glass (Cinderella) — Berlin, 2025. Cinderella walks the drag runway in heels sharp enough to draw blood. Midnight isn’t a deadline when the house queens have your back.

Thread Count (The Three Spinners) — Three ancient seamstresses, a cursed bargain, and a reminder that productivity is the cruelest spell of all.

Refractions of Silence (The Glass Coffin) — A queer reflection trapped in glass refuses to stay buried.

Steel-Toe Souls (The Elves and the Shoemaker) — A factory-floor fable: invisible workers leave shoes no corporation can afford.

Gaslight Gourmet (Clever Gretel) — Dinner service comes with sabotage, knives, and a chef who knows exactly how to make you regret seconds.

Heat-Seeker (The Iron Stove) — What if your prison was also your desire? An inferno of love and danger sealed behind metal.

Sensitive Saves the World (The Queen Bee) — Finally, the quiet sibling wins — with kindness instead of cruelty.

Hell Root & Wine (The Peasant and the Devil) — A vineyard deal gone very wrong, or very right, depending on your taste in drinking partners.

And even more chaos: Ash and Memory (The Old Woman in the Wood), The Thirteenth Silence (The Twelve Brothers), Runway of Thorns (Hans My Hedgehog), Aisle of You (Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie) and more....

What makes this remix different?

Queer, sharp, and modern — magic belongs to punks, drag queens, activists, and runaways.

Urban grit, fairy-tale glow — smoke, neon, and enchantment, all in one.

Stories with bite — monsters who want love, witches who demand rent, endings that refuse to behave.

For fans of queer fantasy, folklore retellings, punk-lit, and anyone who likes their magic messy.

These stories aren’t bedtime reading. They’re after-midnight stories — whispered in kitchens, shouted in protests, spilled across runways.

Grimm Remixed: Volume One asks: what happens when fairy tales squat in the city and refuse eviction?

Answer: they thrive, they riot, they fall in love, and they’ll leave glitter on your floorboards for weeks.

And the story doesn’t end here…

The series continues in Grimm Remixed – Volume Two: Hooks, Hexes, and Holograms, where fairy tales collide with cyberspace, futuristic spells, and queer hauntings. Coming soon — ready to hex your happily-ever-after all over again.