folklore

The world is full of mystery and magic, and people have tried to explain the unexplainable since time began through stories -- legends, mythologies, fables, folklore and fairytales. Here, we present books that explore those realms, whether delving deep into mystery or just spinning a good yarn. Enjoy!

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King Arthur
Robin Hood
Scandinavian
Classical
(Greek & Roman)
Western &
Central European
Asian &
Eastern European
African &
Middle Eastern
Tales from
the Sea
North & South
American
Native
American
Islands of the
Atlantic & Pacific
Collections from
Around the World
Old Tales Retold
(Fractured or Modernized)
Celestial (Moon,
Sun & Stars)
UFOS & Alien
Encounters
Mythical
Creatures
Ghost Stories &
the Supernatural
Storytelling
Analysis, Criticism
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Scandinavian

Poul Anderson
• Hrolf Kraki's Saga

P.C. Asbjornsen & Jorgen Moe
• A Time for Trolls

Bob Barton
• The Bear Says North

Padraic Colum
• Nordic Gods & Heroes

Bob Curran
• Walking with the Green Man: Father of the Forest, Spirit of Nature

Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
• Norse Gods & Giants

H.R. Ellis Davidson
• Gods & Myths of Northern Europe

Sharon Emmerichs
• Shield Maiden

Heather Fawcett
•  Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

Jodie Forrest
• The Rhymer & the Ravens

Neil Gaiman
• Norse Mythology

Thorarinn Gunnarsson
• Song of the Dwarves
• Revenge of the Valkyrie

Seamus Heaney
• Beowulf: A New Translation

Charlotte Huck
• The Black Bull of Norroway, illustrated by Anita Lobel

Galina Krasskova
• Runes: Theory & Practice

Margaret Read MacDonald
• Fat Cat: a Danish Folktale
• Fat Cat & Friends, with Richard Scholtz

Naomi Mitchison
• Travel Light

Betsy Tobin
• Ice Land

Henry Treece
• The Green Man

Mike Vasich
• Loki: Nine Naughty Tales of the Trickster

Jane Yolen
• The Wild Hunt


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Classical (Greek & Roman)

Lynne Reid Banks
• The Adventures of King Midas

Katerina & Aegea Barclay
• The Hand of Zeus

Robert E. Bell
• Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary

Kaitlin Bevis
• Daughters of Zeus, No. 1: Persephone
• Daughters of Zeus, No. 2: Daughter of Earth & Sky
• Daughters of Zeus, No. 3: The Iron Queen

Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Firebrand

Stella Caldwell
• Legends of the Stars: Myths of the Night Sky

Paul Chrystal
• War in Greek Mythology

Felicia Day
•  The Lost Daughter of Sparta

Robyn & Tony DiTocco
• Atlas' Revenge
• The Hero Perseus

Robert Garland
• Greek Mythology: Gods & Heroes Brought to Life

Roger Lancelyn Green
• Tales of the Greek Heroes

Edith Hamilton
• Mythology

Blake Hoena
• Everything Mythology

Patrice Kindl
• Lost in the Labyrinth

Sheldon Oberman
• Island of the Minotaur: Greek Myths of Ancient Crete

Mary Pope Osborne
• Favorite Greek Myths, illustrated by Troy Howell

Elizabeth Spires
• I Am Arachne: Fifteen Greek & Roman Myths

Nigel Spivey
• Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real

Jane Yolen
• Wings


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Western & Central European

Marius Barbeau
• The Golden Phoenix (a.k.a., The Magic Tree & Other Tales)

Lorna MacDonald Czarnota
• Medieval Tales That Kids Can Read & Tell

Shannon Hale
• The Goose Girl

Heinrich Hoffman, adapted by Bob Staake
• Struwwelpeter

Stephen Mitchell
• The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

Mary Pope Osborne
• Favorite Medieval Tales

Charles Perrault
• Puss in Boots

Doug Wheeler
• Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Jane Yolen
• Dove Isabeau, illustrated by Dennis Nolan
• Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys


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Asian & Eastern European

Bob Barton
• The Bear Says North

Eileen Colwell, editor
• Folk Tales from Asia for Children Everywhere, Book 1
• Folk Tales from Asia for Children Everywhere, Book 2

Mike Dixon-Kennedy
• The Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth & Legend

Karen Gernant
• Imagining Women: Fujian Folk Tales

Brian Griffith
• A Galaxy of Immortal Women, The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization

Harish Johari & Vatsala Sperling
• How Ganesh Got His Elephant Head

Kij Johnson
• The Fox Woman
• Fudoki

Sophie Masson
• The Firebird

Donna Jo Napoli
• Bound

Devdutt Pattanaik
• Indian Mythology: Tales, Symbols & Rituals from the Heart of the Subcontinent

James Riordan
• Russian Gypsy Tales
• The Sun Maiden & the Crescent Moon: Siberian Folk Tales

Marcus Sedgwick
• My Swordhand is Singing

Josepha Sherman
• The Horse of Flame

Philemon Sturges & Anna Vojtech
• Marushka & the Month Brothers

Jane Yolen
• Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys


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African & Middle Eastern

Baba Wague Diakite
• The Hatseller & the Monkeys

Anita Diamant
• The Red Tent

Will Eisner
• Sundiata: A Legend of Africa

Jilali el Koudia
• Moroccan Folk Tales

Innocent Emechete
• Animal Stories Daddy Told Us

Neil Gaiman
• Anansi Boys

Brian Gleeson
• Anansi

Jamal Sleem Nuweihed
• Abu Jmeel's Daughter & Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales from Palestine & Lebanon

N.K. Sandars
• The Epic of Gilgamesh


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North & South American

Marius Barbeau
• The Golden Phoenix (a.k.a., The Magic Tree & Other Tales)

Jeff Belanger
• Weird Massachusetts: Your Travel Guide to Massachusetts' Local Legends & Best Kept Secrets

Kate Bernheimer
• Horse, Flower, Bird

John Bierhorst, editor
• Latin American Folktales

Roy Campbell
• Song of the Jackalope

Margo Carruthers
• Speech from the Crone: Scarytales

Joseph A. Citro
• Cursed in New England: Stories of Damned Yankees
• Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings & Horror
• Weird New England

Thomas D'Agostino & Arlene Nicholson
• Legends, Lore & Secrets of New England

Hubert J. Davis
• American Witch Stories

Charles de Lint
• The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
• A Circle of Cats

Pleasant DeSpain
• Sweet Land of Story: Thirty-Six American Tales to Tell

Wayne Erbsen
• Log Cabin Pioneers: Stories, Songs & Sayings

Neil Gaiman
• The Wolves in the Walls

Bruce Gellerman & Eric Sherman
• Massachusetts Curiosities, 2nd: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Nelson Lauver
• The American Story-Teller

J.W. Ocker
• The New England Grimpendium

Catherine Peek, editor
• A Treasury of North American Folktales

Pamela Petro
• Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South

J.J. Reneaux
• Wake, Snake!

Josepha Sherman
• Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, with T.K.F Weisskopf

Roy Edwin Thomas
• Come Go With Me: Old-Timer Stories from the Southern Mountains

Barry Vann
• Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage

David Weatherly
• Monsters of the Green Mountain State: Cryptids & Legends of Vermont

Paul Yee
• Dead Man's Gold & Other Stories


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Native American

Johnny Arlee
• Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story

John Bierhorst, editor
• Latin American Folktales

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Old Indian Legends

Joseph Bruchac
• Heroes & Heroines, Monsters & Magic: Native American Legends & Folktales
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Ella E. Clark
• Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

Harold Courlander
• People of the Short Blue Corn: Tales & Legends of the Hopi Indians

Jaime de Angulo
• Indian Tales: Indian Folklore, Rituals, Hunting Adventures, Allegories, Tall Tales, Blessings & Curses

Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz, editors
• American Indian Myths & Legends

Adam Fortunate Eagle
• Scalping Columbus & Other Damn Indian Stories

Antonio R. Garcez
• American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest

Earnest Gouge
• Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales

Terri Hardin, editor
• Legends & Lore of the American Indians

Susan Hazen-Hammond
• Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

Janet Ruth Heller
• How The Moon Regained Her Shape

Kay Hill
• Glooscap & His Magic: Legends of the Wabanaki Indians

Tony Hillerman
• The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

Will Hobbs
•  Beardream, illustrated by Jill Kastner

Thomas King
• The Truth About Stories

Theodora Kroeber
• The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends

Bobby Lake-Thom
• Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Frank B. Linderman
• Old Man Coyote

Hallie N. Love & Bonnie Larson
• Watakame's Journey: The Story of the Great Flood & the New World

Johanna R.M. Lyback
• Indian Legends

Malcolm Margolin, editor
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories & Songs

Tim McNeese
• Myths of Native America

Lawrence Millman
• A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Folk Tales

James Mooney
• Cherokee Animal Tales
• Myths of the Cherokee

Darrell Norman & Ramon Kramer
• The Return of the Buffalo Horses

Teresa Pijoan
• White Wolf Woman & Other Native American Transformation Myths

Daniel Pinchbeck
• 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Rona Rustige
• Tyendinaga Tales

Leo Sawicki
• Anytime Stories
• Anywhere Stories

George F. Scheer, editor
• Cherokee Animal Tales

Joanne Shenandoah & Douglas M. George
• Skywoman: Legends of the Iroquois

C.J. Taylor
• All the Stars in the Sky: Native Stories from the Heavens
• Bones in the Basket: Native stories of the origin of people
• The Ghost & Lone Warrior
• How We Saw the World: Nine Native stories of the way things began
• The Secret of the White Buffalo: An Oglala Legend

Bertrand N.O. Walker (Hen-Toh)
• Tales of the Bark Lodges

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

Maria Yraceburu
• Legends & Prophecies of the Quero Apache: Tales for Healing & Renewal

Zitkala-Sa
• Old Indian Legends


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Islands of the Atlantic & Pacific

Timothy Befus
• Hawaiian Folklore: Encounters with the Supernatural

Brian Gleeson
• Anansi

Nalo Hopkinson
• Skin Folk


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Tales from the Sea

Mark Adams
• Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

Robert Ellis Cahill
• Haunted Ships of the North Atlantic

David Cordingly
• Under the Black Flag

Bill Jessome
• Maritime Mysteries & the Ghosts Who Surround Us
• More Maritime Mysteries: Everyone Has a Story

Angus Konstam
• Ghost Ships

Robin McKinley
• Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, with Peter Dickinson

Vernon Oickle
• Ghost Stories of the Maritimes

David J. Seibold & Charles J. Adams III
• Shipwrecks & Legends 'Round Cape May

Barbara Smith
• Ghost Stories of the Sea

Jane Yolen
• The Fish Prince & Other Stories: Mermen Folk Tales, with Shulamith Oppenheim


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Collections from Around the World

Bob Barton
• The Bear Says North

Carlyn Beccia
• I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures

William J. Bennett
• Children's Book of Virtues

Katharine Briggs
• An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies & Other Supernatural Creatures

Korwin Briggs
• Gods & Heroes: Mythology Around the World

Thomas Bulfinch
• Mythology

Allan B. Chinen
• Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul

Anna Claybourne
• History's Mysteries: Legends & Lore

Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman
•  Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk

Frank de Caro, editor
• The Folktale Cat

Rupert Furneaux
• Ancient Mysteries

Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weis
• Noodlehead Stories: World Tales Kids Can Read & Tell

Virginia Hamilton
• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Blake Hoena
• Everything Mythology

David Holt & Bill Mooney, editors
• More Ready-to-Tell Tales From Around the World

Norma J. Livo
• Troubadour's Storybag

Margaret Read MacDonald
• Fat Cat & Friends, with Richard Scholtz
• Shake-It-Up Tales! Stories to Sing, Dance, Drum & Act Out

Sherry Norfolk
• Haunted Hearts: Tales of Love & Tragedy

Kathleen Ragan
• Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters:
  Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

Patrick Ryan
• Shakespeare's Storybook

Josepha Sherman
• Merlin's Kin

Jane Yolen
• The Fairies' Ring, with Stephen Mackey
• Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys
• Once Upon a Bedtime Story


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Old Tales Retold (Fractured or Modernized)

Charles Addams
• The Charles Addams Mother Goose

Dennis Lee Anderson
• Arthur, King

E.D. Baker
• The Frog Princess

Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
• Magical Mechanications

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
• Red Riding Hood

Francesca Lia Block
• The Rose & the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

P.J. Brackston
• Gretel & the Case of the Missing Frog Prints

Steven Brust
• The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars

Michael Buckley
• The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives, Book 1

Kara Dalkey
• The Nightingale

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors
• Black Heart, Ivory Bones
• Black Swan, White Raven
• Black Thorn, White Rose
• Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
• Silver Birch, Blood Moon
• Snow White, Blood Red
• A Wolf at the Door: & Other Retold Fairy Tales

Peter David
• Knight Life
• One Knight Only

Pamela Dean
• Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
• Tam Lin

Charles de Lint
• Jack the Giant-Killer

Donald B. Dewar
• Jack's Dad & the Beanstalk

Robyn & Tony DiTocco
• The Hero Perseus

Cameron Dokey
• Golden

Julia Donaldson
• The Giants & the Joneses

Jasper Fforde
• Jack Spratt Investigates: The Big Over Easy
• Jack Spratt Investigates: The Fourth Bear

Gregory Frost
• Fitcher's Brides

Jessica Day George
• Princess of the Midnight Ball

Adele Geras
• Egerton Hall, Book 1: The Tower Room

Margaret Gray
• The Ugly Princess & the Wise Fool

Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Just Ella

Merrie Haskell
• The Princess Curse

Jim C. Hines
• Princess Novels #1: The Stepsister Scheme

Nancy Holder
• Spirited

Mary Howitt
• The Spider & the Fly, illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

Melanie Jackson
• The Selkie

Mercedes Lackey
• The Fairy Godmother
• The Firebird
• Phoenix & Ashes

Tanith Lee
• Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
• White as Snow

Gail Carson Levine
• Ella Enchanted

Rebecca Lickiss
• Never After

Denise Little, editor
• Rotten Relations
• Twice Upon a Time

Wendy Loggia
• Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Janet Lorimer
• Master of Shadows

Gregory Maguire
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Rafe Martin
• Birdwing

Robin McKinley
• Beauty
• Deerskin
• Rose Daughter
• Spindle's End

Stephen Mitchell
• The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

Donna Jo Napoli
• Beast
• Crazy Jack
• The Magic Circle
• Spinners, with Richard Tchen
• Zel

Terry Pratchett
• The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents

Jon Scieszka
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Art Speigelman & Francoise Mouly, editors
• Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies

Mitzi Szereto
• Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp Through the Classics

Carolyn Turgeon
• Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

Anne Ursu
• Breadcrumbs

Catherynne M. Valente
• Six-Gun Snow White
• Speak Easy

Vivian Vande Velde
• The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
• Tales from the Brothers Grimm & the Sisters Weird

Patricia C. Wrede
• Snow White & Rose Red

Jane Yolen
• Briar Rose

Roger Zelazny & Robert Sheckley
• Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming


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Celestial (Moon, Sun & Stars)

Diane Ahlquist
• Moon Spells: How to Use the Phases of the Moon to Get What You Want

Chrissie Blaze
• Mercury Retrograde: Your Survival Guide to Astrology's Most Precarious Time of Year

Diana Brueton
• The Moon: Myth, Magic & Fact

Stella Caldwell
• Legends of the Stars: Myths of the Night Sky

Sasha Fenton & Jonathan Dee
• Moon Signs: Reveal Your Inner Feelings & Discover Your Future

Elen Hawke
• Praise to the Moon: Magic & Myth of the Lunar Cycle

Janet Ruth Heller
• How The Moon Regained Her Shape

Nancy Red Star
• Legends of the Star Ancestors:
  Stories of Extraterrestrial Contact from Wisdomkeepers Around the World

Lori Reid
• Moon Blessings: Drawing Inspiration & Power from the Moon

Andrea Stenn Stryer
• The Celestial River: Creation Tales of the Milky Way

Shelly Wu
• The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology


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UFOs & Alien Encounters

Stanton T. Friedman
• Flying Saucers & Science

John G. Fuller
• The Interrupted Journey

Nancy Red Star
• Legends of the Star Ancestors:
  Stories of Extraterrestrial Contact from Wisdomkeepers Around the World

Karla Turner
• Into the Fringe


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Mythical Creatures

J. Robert Alley
• Raincoast Sasquatch: The Bigfoot/Sasquatch Records of Southeast Alaska,
  Coastal British Columbia & Northwest Washington from Puget Sound to Yakutat

Elizabeth Barrial & D.H. Altair
• Vampires Don't Sleep Alone: Your Guide to Meeting, Dating & Seducing a Vampire

Scott Bowen
• The Vampire Survival Guide

Katharine Briggs
• An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies & Other Supernatural Creatures

Max Brooks
• The Zombie Survival Guide

Raymond Buckland
• The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts: Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights & Other Hauntings of History & Legend

Deena West Budd
• The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology

Lorna Byrne
• Angels in My Hair

Anna Claybourne
• History's Mysteries: Legends & Lore

Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman
•  Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk

Sheila A. Dane
• Fairy Hunters, Ink.

Peter Dickinson
• The Flight of Dragons

Cassandra Eason
• A Complete Guide to Faeries & Magical Beings

Richard Ellis
• Monsters of the Sea

Jessica Freeburg & Natalie Fowler
• Monsters of the Northeast: True Tales of Bigfoot, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures

Brian Froud & Ari Berk
• Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Letters

Brian Froud & Terry Jones
• The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins
• Strange Stains & Mysterious Smells

Brian Froud & Alan Lee
• Faeries (25th Anniversary Edition)

Arlene Gaal
• In Search of Ogopogo: Sacred Creature of the Okanagan Waters

Christopher Hart
• Drawing Dragons & Those Who Hunt Them

Katherine Howe, editor,
• The Penguin Book of Witches

Del Howison
• When Werewolves Attack: A Field Guide to Dispatching Ravenous Flesh-Ripping Beasts

Barry Kane
• Fairy Houses ... Everywhere

Grover S. Krantz
• Bigfoot Sasquatch: Evidence

Claude Lecouteux
• Witches, Werewolves & Fairies: Shapeshifters & Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages

Aaron Lopresti
• Fantastical Creatures Field Guide: How to Hunt Them Down & Draw Them Where They Live

Raymond T. McNally & Radu Florescu
• In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula & Vampires

Ryan Mecum
• Zombie Haiku

J. Gordon Melton
• The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead

Christopher L. Murphy
• Meet the Sasquatch, with John Green & Thomas Steenburg

Thom Powell
• The Locals: A Contemporary Investigation of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch Phenomenon

Suza Scalora
• The Fairies

Brad Steiger
• The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings

Steven P. Unger
• In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey & Travel Guide

Gary R. Varner
• Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men & Spirit Beings Around the World

E.R. Vernor
• Zombie Nation: From Folklore to Modern Frenzy

David Weatherly
• Monsters of the Green Mountain State: Cryptids & Legends of Vermont

Jamie Wood & Lisa Steinke
• The Faeries' Guide to Green Magic from the Garden


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Ghost Stories & the Supernatural

This section has moved! We have way too many supernatural book reviews to squeeze in here, so we had to give them their own page. No worries, you can find all your favorite haunts right here.


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Storytelling

Bill Adler Jr.
• Tell Me a Fairy Tale

Sarvananda Bluestone
• The World Dream Book

Lorna MacDonald Czarnota
• Medieval Tales That Kids Can Read & Tell

Donald Davis
• A Room of My Own

Pleasant DeSpain
• Sweet Land of Story: Thirty-Six American Tales to Tell

Amy Friedman, Jillian Gilliland & Laura Hall
• Tell Me a Story
• Tell Me a Story 2: Animal Magic

Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weis
• Noodlehead Stories: World Tales Kids Can Read & Tell

David Holt & Bill Mooney, editors
• More Ready-to-Tell Tales From Around the World

Norma J. Livo
• Troubadour's Storybag

Margaret Read MacDonald
• Shake-It-Up Tales! Stories to Sing, Dance, Drum & Act Out

Robert Mouland
• Fireside Tales: Stories & Music from the Irish Tradition

Bobby Norfolk
• Norfolk Tales

Barbara Ann Porte
• Beauty & the Serpent: Thirteen Tales of Unnatural Animals

Leo Sawicki
• Anytime Stories
• Anywhere Stories

Joseph Daniel Sobol
• The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival


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Analysis, Criticism & History

Kate Bernheimer, editor
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

J.F. Bierlein
• Parallel Myths

Bettina Bildhauer & Robert Mills, editors
• The Monstrous Middle Ages

Joseph Campbell
• The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Shanna Caughey, editor
• Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth & Religion in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles

David Colbert
• The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter:
  A Treasury of Myths, Legends & Fascinating Facts

• The Magical Worlds of the Lord of the Rings:
  The Amazing Myths, Legends & Facts Behind the Masterpiece

Jennifer Crusie, editor
• Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters & the Power of Three

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Women Who Run With the Wolves:
  Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Liz Greene & Juliet Sharman-Burke
• The Mythic Journey: The Meaning of Myth as a Guide for Life

Douglas Gresham
• Jack's Life: The Life Story of C.S. Lewis

Marvin D. Hinten
• The Keys to the Chronicles: Unlocking the Symbols of C.S. Lewis's Narnia

Thomas King
• The Truth About Stories

Allan Zola Kronzek & Elizabeth Kronzek
• The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter

John Matthews
• The Green Man: Spirit of Nature

Mark Oxbrow
• Halloween: Pagan Festival to Trick or Treat

Phyllis J. Perry
• Keeping the Traditions: A Multicultural Resource

Lawrence Rodgers & Jerrold Hirsch, editors
• America's Folklorist: B.A. Botkin & American Culture

Gary R. Varner
• Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men & Spirit Beings Around the World

Jane Yolen
• Touch Magic
• Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers & Daughters to Share, with Heidi E.Y. Stemple


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Reference

Anne S. Baumgartner
• Ye Gods!

Robert E. Bell
• Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary

Katharine Briggs
• An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies & Other Supernatural Creatures

Korwin Briggs
• Gods & Heroes: Mythology Around the World

Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman
•  Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk

Mike Dixon-Kennedy
• The Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth & Legend

Rosemary Ellen Guiley
• Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Spirits
• Encyclopedia of the Strange, Mystical & Unexplained
• Encyclopedia of Witches & Witchcraft

Michael Jordan
• Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World

Carol K. Mack & Dinah Mack
• A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits

Edain McCoy
• A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk

J. Gordon Melton
• The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead

Daithi O'Hogain
• Irish Superstitions

Iona Opie & Moira Tatem, editors
• A Dictionary of Superstitions

Carole Potter
• Knock on Wood

Edwin & Mona A. Radford
• Encyclopedia of Superstitions

Carol Ann Rinzler
• Dictionary of Medical Folklore

Sacred Symbols:
• Ancient Egypt
• The Celts

Jack Tresidder
• Symbols & Their Meanings:
  The Illustrated Guide To More Than 1,000 Symbols, Their Traditional & Contemporary Significance

Jack Zipes, editor
• The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales


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