Mythology & Folk Tales
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:PULLMAN, PHILIP [PULLMAN, PHILIP]

*** Tale type: ATU 720, ‘The Juniper Tree’ Source: a story written by Philipp Otto Runge Similar stories: Katharine M. Briggs: ‘The Little Bird’, ‘The Milk-White Doo’, ‘Orange and Lemon’, ...
( Category: Anthologies June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Dave Duncan

* * * In Thume the rainy season had ended and the dry season begun. Life went on there undisturbed by the clamors of war, as it had for a ...
( Category: Fantasy June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Dave Duncan

8 Inos marched into the parlor and shut the door. The fire had shrunk to a few glowing ashes; the room was chill. Some of the candles had gone out ...
( Category: War & Military June 24,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-09 | Author:Mary Stewart [Stewart, Mary]

5 I HAD BEEN RIGHT ABOUT Dinias' poverty. Even in the smoky murk of the tavern's crowded room I could see the threadbare state of his clothes, and sense the ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 24,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

(Rome) 101 Belmiele and Belsole There was once a father with two such fair and beautiful children that the boy was called Belmiele, and the girl Belsole. The man’s duties ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Jenna Rhodes

RIVERGRACE EMERGED from the graying darkness of the cave, her eyes narrowed against the sun. From its slant, she’d been inside the cave far longer than she would have guessed. ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Ari Marmell [Marmell, Ari]

IT WAS FINALLY AZRAEL himself—after a prolonged discussion with the other scribes, conducted while hunched over a tableful of heaped scrolls—who brought the Horsemen their answers. He glided over, bearing ...
( Category: Action & Adventure June 24,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Christina Henry

CHAPTER 10 Sound and Fury Before Why do you always have to be such a know-it-all, Red? Why do we always have to do things only your way?” Adam complained. ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Amy Braun [Braun, Amy]

SELENA BOWED HER head and cried. No one condemned her for it, not even the Cetea Clan, who must have Seen the same visions we did, for they were looking ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Aaron Oster [Oster, Aaron]

*** “Will you be coming with me?” Morgan asked, as they exited the dining room. “Why not,” Sarah answered resignedly. “May as well meet some of the people in our ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 21,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Andre Norton [Norton, Andre]

16 THOUGH THE PLACE OF LEARNING WAS WROUGHT OF very ancient stone, and, outside on the mountain peaks, winter raged, there was always warmth in the rooms most used, just ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy June 21,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Andre Norton [Norton, Andre]

“Yur lady, she won’t get no more cold wind through this.” The older of the two men slapped another dollop over the wood. “Takes a lotta doin’, it does, to ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 21,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Granny Rumple Jane Yolen Here we have another take on “Rumplestiltskin” by a writer who blends the literary and oral storytelling traditions into a thoroughly original rendition of the classic ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy June 21,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Brothers Grimm

The King of the Golden Mountain THERE WAS a certain merchant who had two children, a boy and a girl; they were both young, and could not walk. And two ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 21,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R.]

Notes and Commentary 67 not originally written for this society. See Introduction to the Essays. Tolkien first delivered this talk to the Sundial Society of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 20,2019 )