Twelve tracks for the dark fairy tale Flash game — Gretel leads in this version of the Grimm story, and the music matches the unsettling reimagining. "The Nightmare And The Wolf" merges two fairy tale terrors. "Arboreous Appetites" — tree-like hungers — makes the forest itself predatory.
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"Another Skull In The Tree" closes with grim discovery. "Pavonine Pond" uses the peacock-related adjective for a body of water — beautiful but vain. "The Serpent And The Swamp" adds reptilian menace. "All That Glitters Is Cold" inverts the proverb with temperature instead of gold.
"The Woodcutter's Wife" gives a minor fairy tale character her own ominous presence. "Old Man Banjo" adds folk instrument character. "Her Face Returns" implies a haunting recurrence. "On Doom's Doorstep" brings the climax.
"Wares Under There" sounds like a suspicious market. Twelve tracks of dark fairy tale atmosphere — the kind of Flash game that proved browser games could have genuine artistic ambition in soundtrack and storytelling.