“The best single description I know of the world of the fairy tale is that of Max Lüthi who describes it as an abstract world, full of discrete, interchangeable people, objects and incidents, all of ...

In celebration of Stephen King's novel Fairy Tale being offered in paperback, EW and Simon & Schuster have launched the Stephen King Fairy Tale Sweepstakes, giving fans a chance to win a special ...

J.M. Dent & Co., E.P. Dutton & co. A collection of stories split up into three categories: "Fairy Tales and Romances," "Mother Jack's Fairy Book," and "Later Fairy Tales and Rhymes" ...

Once upon a time, people told fairy tales because—well, there were lots of reasons. Folklorists believe that some stories got their start as anecdotes that were spun over time into such good yarns ...

Elizabeth Lim, the author of “Six Crimson Cranes,” recommends some of her favorite retellings of classic fairy tales. By Elizabeth Lim Fairy tales made me fall in love with reading. When I was a kid, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Jacqueline E. Smith has always believed in the magic of fairy tales. As a child, she was already writing stories inspired by iconic princesses. “I was in preschool when I was writing my ...

There was once a beautiful princess who lived locked up by her father, as he feared that something would happen to the daughter he loved so dearly. One day, the girl complained to her nurse, who was a ...