Folklore

Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, myths, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.

New Releases Tagged "Folklore"

The Sea Child
The Salt Bind
Fustuk
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Under Gorse and Stone
Something in the Walls
Hansel and Gretel
Where the Dark Stands Still
Grimm Curiosities
The Fox Wife
Greenteeth
A House Between Sea and Sky
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
The Skull
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
The Sea Child
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Aesop’s Fables
Norse Mythology
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Uprooted
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
Spinning Silver
Thistlefoot
The Arabian Nights
The Complete Fairy Tales
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenThe Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaolaThe Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaolaThe Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola
Flower and Plant lore
98 books — 13 voters
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie   AndersonThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenBaba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCoolaThe Girl in the Tower by Katherine ArdenVassa in the Night by Sarah  Porter
Baba Yaga
100 books — 47 voters

Silver on the Tree by Susan CooperThe Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope LivelyWild Hunt by Jane YolenTamsin by Peter S. BeagleThe Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Wild Hunt
119 books — 24 voters
History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James MooneyScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzFood for the Dead by Michael E. BellMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtGhostland by Colin Dickey
American Folklore
148 books — 16 voters


The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of castor - an extract from the beaver's perineal glands. Little packets containing the brown-orange mass of dried animal matter arrived from Detroit at the Post Office's "general delivery." At home, by the kerosene light, the recipients unwrapped the packets. A poor relative sometimes would be given some of the fibrous gland, bitter and smelling slightly like stro ...more
Leslie H. Whitten Jr., Moon of the Wolf

Terri Windling
Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn’t trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he’d been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill. I argued that certain stories are also cap ...more
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