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Many others before have reconfigured classic story structures for their own ends, but Wendy Walker is the more memorable for being the less knowable. Fairy tales often gain their sense from their familiarity and embeddedness in culture. We can accept that these bizarre event take place, even believe them to have a kind of logic, because we know that x must follow y and that this is not unexpected. Simultaneously, the fairy tale form gains a great amount of its power from the deep and irreducible obscurity at the heart of any particular instance. Stories may take on allegorical or symbolic sense, but this may be a post-hoc addition to the images themselves, which exist in a kind of other space all their own. Walker, in presenting these new fairy tales -- often not new adaptations but fiery, weird originals -- cuts right back to the fundamental irrationality of the collective unconscious from which such stories emerged. This is much more difficult to do well than it might seem, and it makes these odd constructions, deft in word and structure, each a mysterious treasure to encounter.