Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Mythology

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

Aesop was an Ancient Greek story-teller and slave, famed and cherished for his short fables that often involve personified animals. In the renowned collection of works that is Aesop's Fables, he weaves moral...

Quirky Claus

by Sebastian White

If you ever wondered, what the naughty children get for Christmas and who happens to deliver their presents? This is the story for you .... Quirky Claus is the alternative tale of a mischievous Santa who lives...

The Other Side - Jordan

by PhD, Joseph Miller

In the 1930's, H.L. Mencken said of the people who fled the dust bowl, "They are simply, by God's inscrutable will, inferior men, and inferior they will remain until by a stupendous miracle, He gives them equality...

Fitcher's Brides

by Gregory Frost

The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth

1843 is the “last year of the world,” according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State....

Nights with Uncle Remus

by Joel Harris

For more than a hundred years, the tales of Joel Chandler Harris have entertained and influenced both readers and writers. Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Harris's most popular narratives, featuring...

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

by Louise Murphy

The True Story of Hansel and Gretal In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will...

Grimm's Fairy Tales

by The Brother's Grimm

Children's and Household Tales is a collection of German fairy tales published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimm's Fairy Tales. The first volumes...

The Theogony

by Hesiod

Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world.

The Meeting of the Waters

by Caiseal Mor

Brave, copper-haired Aoife was the daughter of a king, a bold young woman full of life and mischief. But on one winter's night she and her brothers took part in an act of careless mischief with consequences...

White As Snow

by Tanith Lee

Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .

So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “the Angela Carter of the fantasy field”—a whole novel based...

Taming the Pooka, Celtic Tales of the Trickster Fairy: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

by T. Crofton Croker, William Butler Yeats & Varla Ventura

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection...

Headwind

by John Nance

A British lawyer working for the Peruvian government attempts to arrest a United States ex-President for alleged war crimes. The ex-President, John Harris, is on an airplane in Athens when he gets the news of...

The Black Swan

Fairy Tales #2

by Mercedes Lackey

After his wife's untimely death, a powerful sorcerer dedicates his life to seeking revenge against all womankind. He turns his captives into beautiful swans--who briefly regain human form by the fleeting light...

The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau

by Anthony Hope

Best known for his political fairy tale, The Prisoner of Zenda, which saw four major screen adaptations, including the acclaimed 1937 incarnation starring Ronald Colman, Anthony Hope was one of the few novelists...

American Indian Trickster Tales

by Richard Erdoes

From the authors of the bestselling "American Indian Myths and Legends" comes a rich and ribald collection of Native American folklore featuring the mischievous "trickster" of oral tradition. Line drawings.

The Sea Serpent of Grenadier Pond

by David Peacock

Willy befriends a sea serpent he discovers in Toronto's Grenadier Pond. He soon learns that he must help the creature move to Lake Ontario if it is to survive.

The Greek Myths: Volume 1

by Robert Graves

Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy,...

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

by C. S. Lewis

“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

Haunted by the myth...

The Way to Rainy Mountain

by N. Scott Momaday

Kiowa Indian myth, history, and personal reminiscences.