Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Mythology

It Moans on Land and Sea and Other Welsh Tales from the Spirit World: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

by William Wirt Sikes & 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...

Death Bogle at the Crossroads: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

by Elliot O'Donnell & 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...

The Dragon Tamers and Other Tales: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

by Varla Ventura, Edith Nesbit & Clint Marsh

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...

The Painted Alphabet: A Mythical Story of Bali

by Diana Darling

Magic, depravity, spiritual ambition, sensuality, and love — The Painted Alphabet binds mythic and modern time together in a rich, slyly suggestive novel based on an old Balinese poem. In a fresh and startling...

The Shaman's Quest

by Nevill Drury

This book is for anyone who wishes to undertake an inspirational and visionary journey of the spirit. By exploring universal themes of spiritual renewal, "The Shaman’s Quest" shows us how we can all find the...

A Bridge to the Other Side

by Michael Berman

A Bridge to the Other Side is a collection of articles and traditional folk tales that deal with our feelings about and attitudes towards Death, both our own death and that of those nearest and dearest to us....

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...

Yiddish Folktales

by Beatrice Weinreich

Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the...

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki, Edward G. Seidensticker & Edward G. Seidensticker

In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait...

Snow White

by Donald Barthelme

An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life.

In Snow White, Donald Barthelme subjects the traditional...

Russian Fairy Tales

by Aleksandr Afanas'Ev

Translated by Norbert Guterman

Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Alexander Alexeieff

Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian...

AZLANDER -

by Gabriel Brunsdon

Puck falls in love with a mortal girl as she lay dying. He follows her soul into the Heavens and beyond. The tale winds its way back to a dark past in the forests of Nottingham, and yet further back to the time...

The Arabian Nights

by Richard Burton & Kenneth C. Mondschein

They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves—Sinbad the Sailor—Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are...

The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales

by Carlo Collodi & Collodi Nipote

The Pinocchio Megapack includes 4 tales of Pinocchio -- the original book, "The Adventures of Pinocchio," by Carlo Collodi; "Pinocchio under the Sea," by Mongiardini-Rembadi; "The Heart of Pinocchio," by Collodi...

Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

Illustrazioni di Ilaria Mattia. La giovane mano di Ilaria Mattia rappresenta alcune delle più famose fiabe di Andersen mostrando con immagini fresche e variopinte le magiche finzioni di storie ancora oggi tra...

Bird Blood Snow

by Cynan Jones

Hoping to give him a better start in life, Peredur's mother takes him from the estates. But when local kids cycle into his life he heads off after them, accompained by the notion of finding Arthur - an absent,...

The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa

by Alexander Mccall Smith

Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously...

See How They Run

by Lloyd Jones

Small-minded academic Dr Llwyd Mcnamara has a grant to research Wales' biggest here, rugby star Dylan Manawydan Jones - Big M. But as he plays with USB sticks in his office, the gods have other plans… Lloyd...

Famous Scots and the Supernatural: How the Supernatural Changed History

by Ron Halliday

Scotland is often seen as a land of mystery, a place where reality collides with the world of spirits and phantoms. But what effect does that have on the individuals who call it their home? And, in particular,...

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...