Fairy tales and Short stories

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Short stories and fairy tales are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short stories" instead a noun phrase "Fairy tales".

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Fairy tales and short stories are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fairy tales" instead a noun phrase "Short stories".

The book The Company of Wolves was based on was a collection of short stories (The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter) that essentially did this with a dozen or so different fairy tales.

Source: Grimmification
The adventures, obviously, were patterned after Sapkowski's short stories, often being deconstructions of fairy tales.

Source: Tabletop Game / The Witcher: Game of Imagination
Angela Carter, known for making updated, modernized versions of fairy tales (many of them collected in The Bloody Chamber), has two short stories involving this to varying degrees.

Source: Little Red Fighting Hood

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