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Old Tales In New Skin – Our Favourite Retellings

Look, the original sources are great and all... but who doesn't love a speculative re-imagining? Here are some of our favourite reimaginings of fairy tales, myths, and classic stories from around the world – spanning sci-fi, fantasy and horror.

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix

Remixed Classics: Book #6

By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

“Kalynn Bayron never fails to deliver incredible stories with beautifully developed characters. I absolutely loved the audio edition of this book. Read more

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The Genesis of Misery

By: Neon Yang
Narrated by: Livvie Lin
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang's debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs.

It’s an old, familiar story: a young person hears the voice of an angel saying they have been chosen as a warrior to... Read more

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The Story of Silence

By: Alex Myers
Narrated by: James Macnaughton
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale. ... Read more

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A Spindle Splintered

Fractured Fables: Book #1

By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

“What if every version of every fairy tale existed, side by side, like parallel universes? What if you could travel between them? And... what if every heroine in every world were as different as the magic objects and villains and settings in each version? What if, for example, one Sleeping Beauty would much rather be awakened by a girl from our... Read more

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The Winter Knight

By: Jes Battis
Narrated by: Gail Shalan, Dylan Kiedman, Mx. Nicky Endres, Lee Osorio & Gabra Zackman
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heart

The knights of the round table are alive in Vancouver, but when one winds up dead, it’s clear the familiar stories have taken a left turn. Hildie, a Valkyrie and the investigator assigned to the case, wants to find the killer ― and maybe figure her life... Read more

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The Story of the Hundred Promises

A Novel

By: Neil Cochrane
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

A loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast that centers queer and trans charactersTrans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just... Read more

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In the Vanishers’ Palace

By: Aliette de Bodard
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast.



In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land . . .



A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.



A... Read more

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