Briar Rose and other fairy tales darkly revisited Alyxandra Harvey Think you know classic fairy tales of yore? You're about to encounter some unexpectedly dark and intriguing passages revealed by Alyxandra Harvey, the bestselling author of Haunting Violet, Stolen Away and hugely popular vampire novels The Drake Chronicles. Briar Rose, a collection of superbly crafted epic poem-short stories, revisits familiar tales from antiquity to open up new mystical realms of strange, unsettling possibilities and surprises. One thing is for certain - you'll never, ever look at classic fairy tales the same...