Overview

Once upon a time got a costume change and a megaphone.

Grimm Remixed: Volume Four – Feathers, Flesh, and Fantasies is full of sequins, subversion, and surgical miracles. Twenty-five retellings where vans double as heist-mobile stages, radishes stage revolutions, crypts host drag rituals, and clubs literally pluck fate from crowns. Read it loud.

Featured acts:

Van Full of Queers (How Six Men Got on in the World) — A glittering road troupe stages a heist at an influencer gala; mime costumes, glitter cannons, sax solos, and a van that steals the scene.

Thread Between Us (The Spindle, the Shuttle and the Needle) — Needlework as performance art: attic epics, mother-of-pearl buttons, and stitches passed like spells.

The Radish of Revelation (The Salad) — Foglia Libera’s commune grows rebellion between rows of rosemary; radishes hum and investors learn to bite dust.

Graveboy & the Velvet Spectre (The Poor Boy in the Grave) — A graveyard stage becomes a place of spectacle and solace; Robin turns ritual into performance.

The Van of Wild Honey (Iron Hans) — A van appears in Prague; a wildman offers tea, rescue, and a new constellation of found family.

The Three Golden Hairs of Club Inferno (The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs) — Basslines, ritual wigs, and a crown literally unpicked on the dancefloor.

The Gold Beneath Our Nails (The Ear of Corn) — Urban agriculture as manifesto: seedwork, community, and food as inheritance.

House of Feather (The Three Feathers) — Feathers, vows, and a sibling reckoning in a Dublin house that still hears the old gossip.

The Glittering Parade (The Golden Goose) — A ridiculous prize and a town that learns how to walk with stolen luck.

Birdie (The Three Little Birds) — Three small songs that keep the anthology honest, funny, and oddly tender.

Also inside: The Silence of Magdalene (The Blessed Virgin’s Child), The Sequined Oracles (Wise Folks), The Willow Whispers (The Grave Mound), Three Riddles and a Sheep Dip (The Shepherd Boy), The Boy Who Interviewed Fabulous (The Skilful Huntsman), The Song Inside the Skin (The Donkey), Tender Is the Flesh of Heroes (The Three Army Surgeons), The Infinite Pot (Sweet Porridge), Sticky Buns & Alibis (The Wolf and the Fox), Snowbound Hearts (The King of the Golden Mountain), Peck the Patriarchy (The Willow-Wren and the Bear), Untangled (The Lazy Spinner), The House That Talked Back (The Old Beggar-Woman), Velvet Spikes (The Hare and the Hedgehog).

Why read it?

Club kids, farmers, surgeons, and seers—no one follows the old endings.

Dark comedy and queer tenderness—sequins with teeth.

Stories that want to be staged, shouted, and then hugged in the dark.

These aren’t lullabies. They’re curtain calls: noisy, strange, and impossible to ignore.

Grimm Remixed: Volume Four dares you to clap between the cheers and the wounds.