Mirror, mirror, on the wall… the question was never about beauty. It was about survival.

The Queen’s obsession is not with her reflection, but with the vital life she feels leaching from her bones. When her enchanted mirror reveals that her forgotten stepdaughter, Snow White, is a vessel of primal vitality, she demands a testament of flesh: a heart and lungs to be cut from the girl's chest. But the Huntsman fails, and the girl escapes into the heart of the Schwarzwald, a forest with its own ancient consciousness and insatiable appetites .

Hunted and left for dead, Snow White is not saved by kindness but claimed by the rot. She finds a grim sanctuary in a squalid cottage, home to seven silent, broken men who are prisoners to the woods themselves . In a house that smells of damp earth and decay, she strikes a new bargain: servitude for shelter .

But the Queen’s malice is relentless. With each poisoned gift—a suffocating ribbon, a paralyzing comb, a perfect apple seeded with a sentient curse—she seeks to destroy the girl. She does not realize she is not killing her rival. She is educating her.

This is not a story of a sleeping princess waiting for a prince. It is a tale of brutal transformation, where a forgotten girl is remade into a terrifying new god of thorn and shadow, and her vengeance will be absolute.

Perfect for fans of grimdark fantasy, folk horror, and twisted fairy tale retellings. Read now and discover the darkness beneath the fairytale.