Once upon a time a reader decided to make an epic list of all the best fairytale retellings in the land. Other readers found this list and read …

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Folktales (or folk tales) — including fairy tales, tall tales, trickster tales, and legends — retold by award-winning author Aaron Shepard.

“The Nightingale” (Danish: “Nattergalen”) is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is nea

Household Tales translated by Margaret Hunt (1884). UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Note: While Hunt’s translation of the Grimms’ Household Tales appears in many places on the web, SurLaLune is the first and only site to present the entire text from the 1884 edition, including Hunt’s preface, Andrew Lang’s introduction, and the extensive notes from the

From rags to riches, the goose that laid the golden eggs, escaping a witch’s oven—these are the stories and images that shape our happily ever afters.

A story which depicts a fantastic sequence of events. Often, fairy tales include creatures from folklore such as goblins, witches, and dragons. Fairy tales …

Cinderella, Aarne-Thompson-Uther folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman.

Fairy Tale Interpretation Group. Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material.

The Grimms’ Fairy Tales, originally known as the ren’s and Household Tales (German: – und Hausmärchen), is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm mans or “mans Grimm”, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.