{"id":14133,"date":"2020-03-13T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2020-03-13T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:17:29","slug":"brian-keenes-history-of-horror-fiction-chapter-nine-grimm-and-gritty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/brian-keenes-history-of-horror-fiction-chapter-nine-grimm-and-gritty\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Keene&#8217;s History of Horror Fiction, Chapter Nine: Grimm and Gritty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/history-horror-fiction-one-not-man-job\/historyofhorror_banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HistoryofHorror_Banner.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"830,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HistoryofHorror_Banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HistoryofHorror_Banner.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10861\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HistoryofHorror_Banner.jpg?resize=830%2C120\" alt=\"Banner Brian Keene's History of Horror Fiction\" width=\"830\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HistoryofHorror_Banner.jpg?w=830&amp;ssl=1 830w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HistoryofHorror_Banner.jpg?resize=350%2C51&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HistoryofHorror_Banner.jpg?resize=768%2C111&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the 1700s drew to a close, the public furor over <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and other gothic horror novels continued. Societal keepers and the media of the time became concerned that commoners, particularly young people, were spending too much time engaged in reading, particularly such gruesome fare as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Monk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/brian-keene-history-of-horror-fiction-chapter-eight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In our last chapter<\/a>, we talked about how cancel culture came for Matthew Gregory Lewis, forcing him to revise further editions of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Monk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and to issue a public apology.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm1.jpe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/brian-keenes-history-of-horror-fiction-chapter-nine-grimm-and-gritty\/grimm1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm1.jpe\" data-orig-size=\"180,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grimm1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm1.jpe\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm1.jpe\" alt=\"Cover of early edition of Grimm Household Tales\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>What then, must society have thought of a series of children\u2019s tales coming out of Germany shortly after the turn of the century? Consider the following. One of these stories told the tale of four children between the ages of five and six who are playing. One child pretends to be a butcher. Another a cook, and another the cook\u2019s assistant. The fourth child pretends to be a pig, at which point the other three children kill him and try to cook him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was society pleased with such children\u2019s tales?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was just one of the stories collected by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is their 1812 book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children\u2019s and Household Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You\u2019d think that a collection with such an innocuous title would have no place in our <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History of Horror Fiction<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but consider the brief synopsis I gave you above. Or consider another tale, in which two young brothers help their father slaughter a pig. Imitating what they\u2019ve just seen, the older brother slices his younger brother\u2019s throat. Their mother, who is inside the farmhouse giving the baby a bath, hears the younger child\u2019s scream and runs outside. When she sees what has happened, she is overcome with rage. The mother grabs the knife from her younger son\u2019s throat and stabs the older brother to death with it. When she goes back inside the house, she discovers that the unattended baby has drowned in the bathtub. Overcome with grief, the mother hangs herself. At the end of the day, the father comes back home from working in the field and finds everyone dead.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children\u2019s and Household Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a collection of German and European folklore, begun as a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scholarly effort to preserve stories that had been orally told from generation to generation &#8212; a practice that was threatened by the increased industrialization of the time. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob and Wilhelm <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">believed that this was important to their Germanic culture, and that the tales reflected the old religions and faiths, which they thought would continue to survive via their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14135\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/brian-keenes-history-of-horror-fiction-chapter-nine-grimm-and-gritty\/grimm2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm2.jpg?fit=633%2C1027&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"633,1027\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grimm2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm2.jpg?fit=631%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14135\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm2-216x350.jpg?resize=216%2C350\" alt=\"Cover of Household Stories\" width=\"216\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm2.jpg?resize=216%2C350&amp;ssl=1 216w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm2.jpg?resize=631%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm2.jpg?w=633&amp;ssl=1 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 85vw, 216px\" \/>Beginning in 1806, the Brothers Grimm traveled Europe, interviewing everyone from poor peasants to the wealthy aristocrats, transcribing the folk tales they heard. You know many of these stories &#8212; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and countless others. But while readers of this column are probably familiar with the sanitized versions made safe for animated cartoons, the original versions &#8212; as evidenced in the examples I gave you earlier &#8212; were pure horror fiction filled with sex and violence. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Snow White<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for example, the Queen is the title character\u2019s mother rather than her stepmother, and she orders her Huntsman to kill Snow White and bring home the child&#8217;s lungs and liver so that she can eat them. A servant in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Goose Girl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is stripped naked and pushed into a barrel studded with sharp nails pointing inwards and then rolled down the street. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Frog Prince<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the princess smashes the frog against a wall instead of kissing him. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapunzel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contains a clear sexual relationship between the main characters. All of the tales are very different than their modern counterparts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By 1810, the brothers began putting their collected stories in manuscript format. Jacob established the framework of each tale, and Wilhelm edited and rewrote the stories themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children\u2019s and Household Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was finally published in 1812, it contained eighty-six stories, most of which resulted in a public outcry on par with the first reaction to Lewis\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Monk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Critics denigrated the brothers for the violence and cruelty on display, and took issue with the book being marketed as appropriate for children (which it was clearly not). The brothers responded that this was why they had stated in the book\u2019s Introduction that stories such as Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood were meant as \u201cwarning tales\u201d for children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob died in 1815, but Wilhelm continued the work, and continued editing and rewriting the stories with each subsequent edition. He removed much of the earlier sex and violence, improved the plots, added dialogue, and worked in traditions from Norse, Greek, and Roman mythology, as well as old, pre-Christian Germanic faiths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14136\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/brian-keenes-history-of-horror-fiction-chapter-nine-grimm-and-gritty\/grimm3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm3.jpg?fit=399%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"399,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grimm3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm3.jpg?fit=399%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm3-233x350.jpg?resize=233%2C350\" alt=\"Cover of modern version of Grimm's Fairy Tales\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm3.jpg?resize=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grimm3.jpg?w=399&amp;ssl=1 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/>Eventually, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children\u2019s and Household Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> became <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Today, these folkloric horror stories have been used and commercialized by everyone from Walt Disney\u2019s animation studio to Adolf Hitler\u2019s Third Reich. The collection has been translated into over one hundred different languages and are an indelible part of human culture. But consider, for a moment, the source of Jacob and Wilhelm\u2019s collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stories were folklore. They were oral traditions, passed down orally over the centuries. Remember back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/brian-keenes-history-horror-fiction-chapter-two-thurg-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chapter 2 of this series<\/a>, when we visited the Upper Paleolithic era and met Thurg, the world\u2019s first horror writer? Many of these are the same stories he was transcribing on the walls of his cave. The times may change, but the fears remain the same. By tracing those fears, you can draw a direct line from Thurg to the Brothers Grimm to the horror writers of today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briankeene.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Keene<\/a>\u00a0is the author of over fifty books, as well as hundreds of short stories and dozens of comic books. He also hosts the popular podcast\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorrorshowwithbriankeene.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Horror Show with Brian Keene<\/a>. The father of two sons, Keene lives in rural Pennsylvania.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 1700s drew to a close, the public furor over The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho and other gothic horror novels continued. 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