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Argo's sail against the light Well, what if they were real?  What if some or any of the Mystical Voyages I've been talking about during ...

This lively fairy tale comes from Brittany (the Isle du Loch is a real island off the Brittany coast, and as the name sugges...

With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...

This essay was originally published nearly two years ago in the 12th issue of Gramarye, Winter 2017 (It will take you a while to read! 😊 )...

Re-reading Hans Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ recently, I noticed how in this lovely illustration by Errol le Cain the reindeer turns it...

This wintry Russian fairy tale is my loose adaptation of ‘Morozko’ (‘Frost’), collected by Aleksandr Afanasiev and translated by...

Jonas Lie was  a contemporary of Ibsen, born 1833 at Hvokksund, not far from Oslo, but spent much of his childhood at Tromsø, inside the ...

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton: 'The Fairy Rade: Carrying Off A Changeling - Midsummer's Eve' This account from an unnamed 'old woman’ of Nithsda...

I will begin with the Green Lady, Perelandra’s unfallen Eve, although the novel has very much the quality, simplicity and large theme ...

From Le Folk-Lore de France , Paul Sebillot (1904), this tale is an odd twist on 'The Sleeping Beauty'. "Sailors seldom talk about...

On a brief trip to visit friends and relations in Yorkshire and Manchester last October, I began encountering an unsettling numb...

It came, it came again to the scented garden, The call that they would not heed, A clear wild note far up on the hills above t...

While on tour a couple of years ago to promote his Old Kingdom novel "Goldenhand", Garth Nix generously took time out to write Ste...

A guest post by Gwyneth Jones I’ve always been attracted to fairytales. I knew I was a storyteller long before I knew I’d be a writer: I too...

Katherine Langrish is the creator of the award-winning blog Seven Miles of Steel Thistles and gave the 2022 Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture.

My husband's Uncle Bill Dilger was a watch and clockmaker-cum-repairer, and his workshop, a small back room in his Victorian Manchester hom...

I once read, I think in an essay by C.S. Lewis – that to have weird or unusual protagonists in a fantasy world was gilding the lily. Simply ...

I have a very old book of Scandinavian ballads, ‘Ballad Stories of the Affections’, edited and translated by Robert Buchanan. ...

'The Ghosts' by Lord Dunsany, illustrated by Sidney Sime   There is a great difference between a supposedly true ghost story and a fiction...

UK gender decision ignites debate among professionals working in the domestic abuse and rape crisis spheres

IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie...

Extracts from Lord Dunsany’s first 'Donellan Lecture' given at Trinity College Dublin, in 1943. Here he speaks about prose: its rhythms ...

In March 1943 Lord Dunsany delivered the three ‘Donellan Lectures’ at Trinity College, Dublin, choosing to speak about prose, poetry an...

The footage is chilling: Tufts University and Fulbright student Rümeysa Öztürk was ambushed and abducted by masked ICE agents. In the video, you can hear her pleading desperately to be released. Her c

This tale comes from John Masefield’s collection of sea stories   ‘ A Mainsail Haul ’, first published in 1905 when the author was only 26...

RIVER VOICES   As I walked down by the river Close by the sounding sea, Up rose three water maidens Who stretched white arms to ...

This wonderful little city stands, as if sprung from the soil, in a neighbour's garden. It reminds me of the medieval French ci...

'An Incident at the Battle of Culloden' by David Morier, oil on canvas.   This post first appeared on The History Girls blog   Scot...