Jeffrey Marlin

The Outlaw Rumple Stiltskin Jeffrey Marlin

"I command you spin straw into gold, ... or hang from yon onionwood tree!" An arrogant gnome or gremlin offers you help. Do you make your deal with the Devil? How will that work out for you? These questions frame the only historically accurate version of the Rumple Stiltskin romance currently available. Among the darker questions left unaddressed by modern renditions and fully explored here: What was Rumple's relationship with the miller's daughter, the future Queen Mineola? How did his feelings affect his judgment? What did young Gorgo, Mineola's beloved mill-hand, make of this? Sexual themes are tactfully juxtaposed for enriched appreciation of contemporary manners and morals