Danish

Strange, macabre, and unsettling: Short stories from the Danish master of absurdist fiction In the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses, boils, paralysis, and frostbite. A big sister descends into a basement. Another sister denies her younger brother. A third sister with memory loss is on the run, seeking shelter at Notpla. A fourth set of siblings travel to Hungary with their late mother in a coffin. They each have a different version of their mother’s story. In Scavenius’s chilling and excruciatingly seductive universe, nothing can be said to be true anymore. After all, anything can be propaganda today.

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" has delighted readers for more than a century and inspired numerous adaptations. This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Andersen's classic. In addition to stories by Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, it includes works by Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Wilde, selections from Andrew Lang's fairy books, and Alexandre Dumas' The History of a Nutcracker.