5) Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner. Marina Warner is one of the great experts on fairy tales, and in this book she sets out to create a simple map of the territory ...

"Happily N'ever After" (PG) Runs 1 hour, 27 minutes. Kids 7 and older may find occasional amusement in this charmless and coarse send-up of traditional fairy tales, padded with too many jokes kids ...

This book is the first in a series of fairy tales to be penned by McGoon that feature LGBTQ characters. His next book in this series dives in with a plotline centered around a gay prince.

The book’s alternate world combines Grimmian fairy-tale elements with Lovecraftian cosmic horror, but it takes a while to get there. The more of them I read, the more I appreciate King’s set-ups.

A Swedish customs officer with a special talent for detecting contraband must ultimately choose between good and evil in the idiosyncratic thriller “Border,” an exciting, intelligent mi… ...

Two Books Plumb the Hidden Depths of the Fairy Tale Reviews of ‘The Fairy Tellers’ and ‘The Heroine With 1,001 Faces.’ Illustration from ‘Stories from the Arabian Nights’ (1907) by ...

In her latest book, “Cinderella Didn’t Live Happily Ever After: The Hidden Messages in Fairy Tales,” Evanston author Anne Beall used data-driven research to reveal patterns across 169 of ...

In King’s latest novel, a teenage boy discovers another world beneath a backyard shed. By Matt Bell When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...