Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Mythology

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...

The King of Sleep

by Caiseal Mor

Two kings and two peoples once lived on the island of Innisfail, in harmony with the land and the earth -- though not so peaceably with one another. The arrival of the Gaedhals, from the land of Iber across...

Dark Moon of Avalon: A Novel of Trystan & Isolde

by Anna Elliott

She is a healer, a storyteller, and a warrior. She has fought to preserve Britain’s throne. Now she faces her greatest challenge in turning bitter enemies into allies, saving the life of the man she loves...

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...

The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie

by Sivadasa & Chandra Rajan

One of the most important works of Indian narrative fiction, passed down orally through the centuries and first recorded in medieval times, The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie has at its center the half-mythical,...

Early Irish Myths and Sagas

by Various & Jeffrey Gantz

First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic...

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

by Kate Bernheimer

The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.

Michael Cunningham, Francine Prose, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, and more than thirty...

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 Magical Worlds of Harry Potter (revised edition)

by David Colbert

This is the indispensable source guide to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels-revised and updated with information relating to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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 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...

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer

Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural...

Michigan Legends: Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State

by Sheryl James

Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are familiar with the Ojibwa legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, and most have heard a yarn or two told of...

At the Fireside: True South African Stories

by Webster Roger

Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African.

Now,...

The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen, Erik Christian Haugaard & Virginia Haviland

Translated by Erik Hougaard, this is the only version available in trade paperback that presents the fairy tales exactly as Andersen collected them in the original Danish edition in 1874.  His notes accompany...

Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale

by Odette Beane

Emma Swan’s life has been anything but a fairy tale. She's been on her own since she was abandoned as a baby--that is, until the night of her twenty-eighth birthday, when Henry, a ten-year-old boy, shows up...

The Book of Were-Wolves

by Sabine Baring-Gould

The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould was originally published in 1865 and remains the most important and most often cited book on Lycanthropy. It is as compelling today as it was more than one hundred...

The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights

by Sir James Knowles

King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly...

The Brothers Grimm Volume 2: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm & Margaret Hunt

We all know the stories — or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about "Wise Folks," "The King's Son Who Feared...