F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics

· Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Liz Gotauco, Sneha Mathan, Nadia Verde, Lameece Issaq, Dominique Franceschi, Kyla Garcia, Zura Johnson, January LaVoy, Vaneh Assadourian, various narrators, and Deepti Gupta
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About this audiobook

Bawdy, shocking, and hilarious interpretations of classic and rare fairy tales from a beloved TikTok storyteller

Based on the wildly popular TikTok series, F*cked Up Fairy Tales presents modern retellings of some of the strangest and darkest stories humans have invented. Inspired by sources across the world, “Cosbrarian” Liz Gotauco conjures gossipy animals, homicidal royals, doomed commoners, and shape-shifting beaux—all reckoning with complicated, adult problems that “Disney versions” have sanitized. Gotauco offers insight into the stories’ contested origins, spills deliciously weird details about fairy tale authors, and explores timeless themes that have long tickled the human subconscious, from accidental bestiality and catastrophic marriages to the vexed question of what to do with your murderous lindworm child. Sexy, disturbing, and outrageous, F*cked Up Fairy Tales celebrates the astonishing diversity of the oral tradition, reaffirming our universal love for a story that’s messy as f*ck.

About the author

Liz Gotauco is a librarian, award-winning cosplayer, TikTok star, and creator of the popular web series F*cked Up Fairy Tales. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sneha Mathan is a voice actor and audiobook narrator. Her audiobook work has received several Earphones awards, and she is a three-time Audie Award finalist. She lives in Seattle.

Lameece Issaq is an actor, writer, and cofounder/former artistic director of the Obie Award-winning company Noor Theatre. Lameece has narrated over eighty books, most recently The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, for which she won an AudioFile Earphones Award. She has appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions, including The Fever Chart and Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at the Public Theatre, The Black Eyed at New York Theatre Workshop, and Noura at The Old Globe, among several others. She's written various short plays produced in The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival; as well as short plays Noor & Hadi Go to Hogwarts (Theater Breaking Through Barriers, Golden Thread Theater); Orb Weaver (24/6) and Nooha's List, part of the compilation play Motherhood Outloud (Hartford Stage, The Geffen and Primary Stages). Her full-length play Food and Fadwa (2011 recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award) premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in a production she coproduced and starred in, and in which Variety magazine praised her performance as "stunning." Food and Fadwa was a part of the Arab Voices Festival in both Abu Dhabi and Beirut and was published in the anthology "Contemporary Plays By Women of Color," second edition. She cowrote the feature film Abe, directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She starred in her most recent play, A Good Day to Me Not to You, which premiered off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater in 2023 and was produced by Waterwell and Plate Spinner Productions. The play was developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Noor Theatre, and Theatre Aspen's Solo Flights Festival. A 2016 NYFA Finalist in Playwriting/Screenwriting, Lameece is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Dominique Franceschi is a Colombian narrator based in Los Angeles. She loves bringing Latinx, fantasy, and sci-fi stories to life. She earned her BFA in performing arts at AMDA and is excited to contribute to breaking the stereotype for South Americans in the industry. When not in the booth, she enjoys playing RPG video games, teaching ballet, and leading classes for toddlers.

Zura Johnson is a classically trained stage actor. She has performed on stages from her childhood home in California to the East coast, and all the way to Singapore.

January LaVoy is a talented actress and voiceover artist who is best known for her role on the long-running ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. A proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, she is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. She is the recipient of over thirty Earphones Awards, seven Audie Awards, and was named Publishers Weekly's Audiobook Narrator of the Year in 2013.

Vaneh Assadourian is an actress, audiobook narrator, and voice actor who received her bachelor's degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Based in Los Angeles, California, she has lent her voice to different genres of books including autobiographies, romance, and juvenile fiction.

Deepti Gupta is an Audie-nominated narrator and actress based in Los Angeles. Fluent in Hindi and Urdu, her career spans across India, Singapore, Pakistan, and the United States. She has earned praise from the New York Times for her performance in the feature film Walkaway.

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