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About this episode
Fairy tales weren't always meant to be sweet. In this darkly twisted collection, magic comes with a price—and not everyone lives happily ever after. ✨ Stories Include: 🩸 RUMPELSTILTSKIN – When a cursed name burns through skin and bone, spinning gold is just the beginning of the nightmare. 💃 DANCING WITH THE DEVIL (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) – A girl sneaks away to dance with a stranger… only to find she’s stepped into something far more hellish than a party. 🐾 THE MONKEY'S PAW (W.W. Jacobs) – A cursed object offers three wishes. But each comes at a terrible cost in this iconic tale of fate and regret. 🌹 THE BIRTHMARK (Nathaniel Hawthorne) – A scientist obsessed with perfection attempts to "fix" his beautiful wife—proving that true horror lies in obsession. For fans of dark fantasy, cursed wishes, gothic horror, and fairy tales that bite back. These stories dig beneath the surface of folklore to reveal the twisted truth underneath. 🕯️ Subscribe for more horrifying retellings and classic creeps each week.