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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,053 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 239,061 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,123 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 344,836 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 114,134 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,025 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 266,905 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 141 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 91,070 ratings — published 2019
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,731 ratings — published 2001
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.96 — 219,843 ratings — published 2023
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 555 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 118 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 154,192 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,105 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,262 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,677 ratings — published 1850
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,572 ratings — published 1000
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,339 ratings — published 1975
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,059 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,381,155 ratings — published 2018
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,770 ratings — published 1956
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,692 ratings — published 1855
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 131,981 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,375 ratings — published 1893
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,706 ratings — published 1200
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,923 ratings — published 1992
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,694 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 78,699 ratings — published 2019
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,888 ratings — published 1989
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,631 ratings — published 1989
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 97,606 ratings — published 2022
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,785 ratings — published 2017
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,607 ratings — published 1911
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,350 ratings — published 1973
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,420 ratings — published 1984
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,220 ratings — published 1904
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,334 ratings — published 2018
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,166 ratings — published 1835
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,060 ratings — published 1987
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 65,935 ratings — published 1979
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,444 ratings — published 1949
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,749 ratings — published 2023
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,220 ratings — published 1697
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,053 ratings — published 1988
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,502 ratings — published 2016
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,742 ratings — published 1890
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,274 ratings — published 1981
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 31,078 ratings — published 2024
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,854 ratings — published 2014
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 65 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,673 ratings — published
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,349 ratings — published 1975
“My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I had ever read and dump it into one book--everything I like--trying to evoke some of the decadence… Vampires are a high-class monster: They want to dress up. They want to drink a lot of absinthe, or force their victims to drink a lot of absinthe. They have big parties and have elegant rituals. I think that's a thing we associate with vampires--they are the royalty of our monsters. We expect them to be rich, we expect them to be well-dressed. I wanted to have some of that be true because I like it, and have some of it not be true because it's kind of weird.
I wanted to put in the idea of infection, which I was really interested in and which was a big feature of the vampire books I read growing up. And, the fear and desire for infection--the way in which our urge towards loving vampires is nihilistic. Our fear of them is our survival instincts kicking in.”
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I wanted to put in the idea of infection, which I was really interested in and which was a big feature of the vampire books I read growing up. And, the fear and desire for infection--the way in which our urge towards loving vampires is nihilistic. Our fear of them is our survival instincts kicking in.”
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“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh) St Collen fought and killed a cannibal giantess, afterwards washing away the blood-stains in a well later known as Ffynnon Gollen. In Ireland, the tales of saints slaying giant serpents may have the same meaning; alternatively they (or some of them) may refer to early sightings of genuine water monsters. St Barry banished a serpent from a mountain into Lough Lagan (Roscommon), and a holy well sprang up where the saint's knee touched the ground.”
― Sacred Waters
― Sacred Waters
