Snow, Glass, Apples is a short fiction work and a vivid retelling of the fairy tale Snow White from the perspective of the stepmother queen who is forever plagued by the girl as white and cold as snow. Snow, Glass, Apples parallels the familiar plot of the original Snow White but alters initial interpretations and rejects all previous assumptions. The similarities end at the surface, the characters, the storyline, and the once assumed jealous motives of the queen are revealed to be lies fabricated by the snow white child. The young princess is a pallid creature, a vampire who quietly drains the life of those around her. The queen tells of the sorrowful life cast upon her as she tries to rid the kingdom of the demon child. It is a salacious story filled with sick atrocities- taboos of incest, necrophilia, pedophilia. It is a story that fiercely reinvents the fairytale and inextricably intertwines itself with the original in your brain. Snow, Glass, Apples illuminates Gaiman's exquisite storytelling abilities. He imagines a vulgar reinterpretation of a classic fairytale, yet it reads as gently as a falling snow.
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Gaiman, Neil. "Snow, Glass, Apples." Smoke and Mirrors. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
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