The Circlet Press Fairy Tale Bundle

Scratch the surface of a fairytale and, nearly always, you will find that it's a story about sex. Sexual awakening, sexual control, sexual menace, sexual restraint, sexual choice. And therein lies a lot of their extraordinary staying power. Turns out people like stories about sex! The oneiric power of fairy tales taps into our oldest and deepest archetypes engaging with the universal struggles of maturation.

Of course, the moral lessons imparted by the original versions were often ugly and toxic. All the better to mess with, my dear! Here you'll find dozens of Circlet authors turning those old stories about the importance of modesty, chastity, and knowing your place into tales that would set the original tellers' hair on fire. We keep coming back to fairy tale books because these themes are inexhaustibly rich, and there is always another change to be rung in transforming these infintely malleable old stories into something that expresses the present moment, while connecting to unchanging human truths.

And if its scorching hot as well, why, so much the better!

Our collection features Elizabeth Schechter's novel Princes of Air; Lambda Literary Award finalist Charming, which collects gay fairy tales in a contemporary setting; plus short story collections focusing on gay, lesbian, and BDSM sexuality.