Folk Tales

"Folktales" is a general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. ...more

The Skull
The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!
The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories
Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World
Three Little Vikings
Dark Folklore
Kapaemahu
Federico and the Wolf
Chicken Little: The Real and Totally True Tale
The Little Blue Bridge (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (A Women in Horror Anthology)
Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Italian Folktales
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Skull
The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop’s Fables
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti

Emmanuelle de Maupassant
We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.
Emmanuelle de Maupassant, Cautionary Tales: Voices from the Edges

Terri Windling
In the colored fairy books of Andrew Lang (The Red Fairy Book, The Blue Fairy Book, etc.), there is a figure who has always intrigued me: the Hen Wife, related to the witch, the seer, and the herbalist, but different from them too: a distinct and potent archetype of her own, an enchanted figure beneath a humble white apron. We find her dispensing wisdom and magic in the folk tales of the British Isles and far beyond (all the way to Russia and China): a woman who is part of the community, not sep ...more
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