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Once upon a time . . .
These words are a magic incantation that opens doors to a fantastic realm that is home to fairy godmothers, wicked witches, beautiful princesses, princes charming (and not so charming), sleeping beauties, fearsome ogres, fearless giant-killers, beasts with love in their hearts, and ordinary young men with heroic spirits. These are the characters who bring fairy tales to life and who for centuries have made the stories...
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I've been collecting and telling stories for a couple of decades now, having had several of my own fictional works published in recent years. My particularly focus is on short story writing in the realms of magical realities and science fiction fantasies.I've always drawn heavily on traditional folk and fairy tales, and in so doing have amassed a digital collection of many thousands of these tales from around the world. It has been one of my long-standing...
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These "Seven Tales'' were published in 1940 in The American Weekly Sunday magazine and have never been seen since. They showcase watercolors by English artist Edmund Dulac, who was one of the Golden Age illustrators. The texts were written by noted American author and musician John Erskine.
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Monstrous Tales is a collection of traditional folktales about bewitching and bloodthirsty creatures.
Translated and transcribed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these tales celebrate the diversity of-and surprising resonances among-folklore traditions around the world.
Welcome to a world of magical adventure: a mysterious wolf pursues a bridegroom through a dark forest, a princess is trapped in a monster's body, and a dragon is coming...
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In one of the large and rich cities of China, there once lived a tailor named Mustapha. He was very poor. He could hardly, by his daily labor, maintain himself and his family, which consisted only of his wife and a son. His son, who was called Aladdin, was a very careless and idle fellow. He was disobedient to his father and mother, and would go out early in the morning and stay out all day, playing in the streets and public places with idle children...
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Anges's Song by A.L. O'Connor
Catching Fire by Amber M. Simpson
Shattered Love by Andrew Kurtz
The Widower by Chisto Healy
Loved Beyond Measure by Chris Bannor
Closure Ritual by D.J. Elton
Wait by David Green
Smoke Signals by Drew Starling
The Broken Vow by Galina Trefil
Demon Lover by Jacqueline Moran Meyer
The Bargain by Kimberly Rei
Finding Her by Matt Lucas
57 Minutes by N.M. Brown
House Beats by Raven Corinn Carluk
Fishtails by Stacey Jaine McIntosh
Changeling...
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Panji's Quest is a love story set before the reign of King Kameswara of Kadiri (r. 1135-1185). It is a part of the only original Indonesian stories that have been widely disseminated for centuries and were later combined into the Panji Tales. On October 30, 2017, UNESCO included The Tale of Panji in their "Memory of The World" documentary series.
In Panji's Quest Panji, crown prince of the kingdom of Janggala and Sekartaji, crown princess of...
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This work gives a unique opportunity to dive into the world of ancient British poetry and legends. Here, a reader will find the primary sources for the epic stories about Gilderoy, Winifred, Bryan, Sir Cauline, King Estmere, Sir Guy, King Arthur, the Fairy Queen, and many more. A collection in three volumes contains numerous works by famous and anonymous authors adapted to modern English. The significance of this work is apparent. It was the first...
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Michael Rosen is professor of children's literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of more than 140 children's books, he is also known for his work as a broadcaster, political columnist, and scriptwriter, and was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009. His many books for adults include So They Call You Pisher!, Alphabetical, and The Disappearance of Émile Zola. He lives in London.
A collection of political tales-first published...
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Sex, Crime und viel, viel Fantasie - das sind Zutaten für einen Blockbuster. Das sind aber auch die Zutaten für Märchen. Die Sammlung der Gebrüder Grimm macht da keine Ausnahme. Sie glauben das nicht? Kann es sein, dass Sie nur die harmlosen, bereinigten Versionen moderner Kinderbücher kennen?
Dann lesen Sie dieses Buch. Hier finden Sie die Märchen so. wie sie heute geschrieben werden. So, wie sie auch bei den Gebrüdern Grimm stehen würden,...
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A moving short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written and illustrated by a great Irish talent in children's fiction today When his brother goes missing in action, Charley knows he has a duty to enlist for the army himself. Soon dispatched to the Somme, he and his comrades are far from home and living in fear of a faceless enemy. Cold and wet, letters from their loved ones in Ireland and well-meaning banter with each other are the only...
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Es war einmal...
... ein Happy End.
Aber sind Märchen immer zu Ende erzählt?
Was geschah mit Mathieu, als er den geheimnisvollen Meerjungfrauen aus "Meerschaum" folgte? Wie geht es mit Pegg und Marie und ihren Schneegeistern weiter fernab von "Hollerbrunn"? Und wie lebt es sich eigentlich "Im Bann der zertanzten Schuhe" als Prinz in dem geheimnisvollen Nachtclub?
Erfahrt, was Tamara aus "Träume voller Schatten" nach Oz zieht, was Graf Levente...
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Sindbad der Seefahrer hat Unglaubliches erlebt, in Persien vor über 1000 Jahren. Aber er ist ein moderner Mensch: mobil, risikofreudig, profitorientiert. Nur für sich selbst tritt er ein. Nur sich selbst ist er verantwortlich. Dabei ist er klug, ja, vorsichtig, anpassungsfähig, manchmal, wenn es die Lage erfordert, sogar kühn. Tollkühn niemals.
Die spannenden Abenteuer, die er auf seinen Reisen erlebt und besteht, dann auch später erzählt sind...
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What I am trying to express in the summaries of these reports is that Bigfoot are different, just like you and me and everybody else; we are all different in our personalities, attitudes, intelligence and every other conceivable way. These are intelligent creatures, which have been around most likely as long as we have. Some are nice and others not so nice. The point is that these creatures do not act like animals, whose behavior can be determined....
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Ce livre contient des étapes prouvées et des stratégies pour utiliser divers sorts Wiccan pour vous aider à améliorer l'état actuel de votre vie.D'améliorer votre chance financière jusqu'à vous rendre plus attractif en relation à l'amour, il y a plusieurs manières différentes de comment utiliser ces sorts. En effet, votre intention joue un rôle central quand il en vient à sa création.
16) The Blue Door
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Welcome to Pumpernickel House, a bi-annual journal of contemporary fairy tale, fabulism, magical realism, the strangely beautiful and the beautifully strange. Behind this door you'll find women who are birds, girls who love golems, beastly babies washed ashore by the tide, and a batch of Baba Yaga's special cookies. Get lost in the woods and stumble upon the intersection of past and future in the poetry of Jennifer Lynn Krohn, or step across our threshold...
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This book is a beautiful collection of the fascinating stories told by the indigenous peoples across the continent of North America. The exciting adventures of trickster figures like Glooscap, Raven and Coyote are combined here with classic legends of creation. These legends span the width of the continent with tales from the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes region to the Inuits of Alaska. Together, these carefully chosen tales show the sheer diversity of...
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A collection of horror short stories based on legends and tall-tales from throughout the World.
From India and the coasts of Albania to the wilds of North America, these original stories bring to life old tales of darkness and horror. Featuring the works of: L.F. Falconer, Linda Kay Hardie, K.N. Johnson, Shashi Kadapa, C.R. Langille, Mike Marcus, Sergio Palumbo, Joshua P. Sorensen, and R. B. Swallow.
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Fantasy and Mystery by AAVV
10 Authors measure themselves against the great Mysteries of our History.
Fantamisteri, Fantastic Mysteries, Fantasy and Mystery ... many different ways (even if we recognized ourselves more in the first one) to define this collection of stories, written by ten different authors, who wanted to try to investigate the Mystery and the Fantastic, ranging from History to Fantasy, from the Yellow that is tinged with Horror...
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Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824—1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred,...
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