Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Prince and the Troll | 2020 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 2 | Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales | 2021 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 3 | Hazel and Gray | 2020 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 4 | The Princess Game | 2020 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 5 | The Cleaners | 2020 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 6 | The Wickeds | 2020 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
Soman Chainani’s short story collections bring together his fairy tale retellings in concentrated form. Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales (2021) collects twelve stories that reimagine classics like Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rumpelstiltskin with twists that upend reader expectations.
The five Faraway stories — The Prince and the Troll, Hazel and Gray, The Wickeds, The Cleaners, and The Princess Game — were all published in 2020 and work as standalone fairy tales. Together, the collections show Chainani’s interest in testing the boundaries of familiar story structures.