Once Upon an Asylum


Thirteen fairy tales reimagined through the case notes of DR. Imogen Vane.

“Patient claims to remember a wolf. There was no wolf.”

Behind the ivy-choked walls of Thornmere Asylum, thirteen patients insist their fairy tales were not stories at all, but memories. As part of her revolutionary narrative-elicitation therapy, Dr. Imogen Vane records their accounts—one by one—blurring the line between delusion and truth.

These are not the tales you were told as a child. These are the ones remembered in the dark.


Meet Dr. Vane

Dr. Imogen Vane is a psychiatrist practicing at Thornmere Asylum in 1927.

She believes that every delusion is a story waiting to be heard—uninterrupted, uncensored, in the patient’s own words.

Her case notes were never meant for publication.

Perhaps that is why they read more like a confession.

The Collection


“The stories they tell are not the problem.

The problem is what listens when they are told.”

— Dr. Imogen Vane

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