We open the strange fairy cabaretdes disenchanted like a casket. A beautiful setting that offers first stunning illustrations, rich, detailed, majestic as a foretaste of the texts which are nonetheless worked. Hélène Larbaigt "scary becomes charming, where terror melts into amber nostalgia compassion. " Dead Vanity this cabaret founded in 1884. It recruits around the world of fairies survivors, chased, forgotten, prochefée2s the great legendary figures of the past. With his boots in green and fragrant ribbons, it ensures the magic necessary for enrollment of her friends. An MSDS and a short story gives us to know the origins and characteristics of each. As many antiquated stories, scary but touching that plunge us into a fantastic world where cruelty and dream mix. In the strange cabaret, cat fairy, eyed gorgon, banshee mulatto, Russian witch, white lady found their essence each lodge their landscaping at his convenience, attracting spectators always hungry wonders at the risk of their lives. Believe in fairy tales is an escape, an alternative to various drugs of our modern societies. With a particular lexical register (mésavenance, vastness, pertinacity, souquenilles), a reminder of the great legendary myths, a wealth of materials (posters, menus, cabaret programs), the author plunges us into the atmosphere of the place. But it is not a simple collection of testimonies and records as Helen Larbaigt built a true story about the genesis of this cabaret, on the relationship between these sometimes hostile fairies, but grateful subject. I got carried away, "stuck between two worlds" in this macabre dance, the sound of a sweet melody, listening with terror escapades fairies or witches, dreaming with their beautiful stories of love and friendship. Hélène Larbaigt writing as she draws with scale, wealth, color, which gives the book a beautiful harmony and makes it a rare and precious object.