"Merry Stories and Funny Pictures." Don't you believe it. Here's Heinrich Hoffman's 1845 hair-raising—and finger-amputating, and dog-beating, and "Black-a-Moor" teasing (you have been warned), and self-immolating, and self-starving—Big Little Book of Unflinching Moral Lessons. There is no evidence that one of these merry stories directly inspired Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, but if you're sucking your thumb right now, I'd advise you to stop. No, really, stop. Oh jeez, please stop.
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