Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, Michael Cunningham.
