It had started small: a story, just a few minutes long, involving a dark 
castle, a wicked stepmother, and a gate with twelve locks. It would have been 
forgettable, except for two things: It paid much better than most kid work, 
because they were specifically looking for highly rated actresses, and it was 
rather dark and weird by the standards of contemporary children's literature. 
Not many people were into that whole Grimm Brothers scene anymore.