By d. emerson eddy — Fairy tales, myths, and legends tend to use allegory and fantastical settings in order to easily convey universal truths and moral lessons to children in entertaining and often educational ways. They cover everything from simple practical lessons of “don't got into the woods alone” to fanciful ideas of why the Sun will come up tomorrow. Those in the latter camp tend to fall apart under scrutiny, but those in the former often have some baring on modern life. Such that we have people analyze and deconstruct many of the fairy tales to further glean understanding, and retell them in modern parlance, giving us interesting works from everyone from Angela Carter to Catherynne Valente.