A two-year subscription to the biannual journal for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy.

This full-colour illustrated journal features analyses, commentary and reviews on all things folklore, fairy tale and fantasy.

Gramarye 23 - Angela Carter special issue.

The 'Angela Carter' special issue includes:

‘Beyond the Failure of Communication with Others: Angela Carter from a Global Perspective’, Natsumi Ikoma
‘“We Played at Heroes and Villains”: Mythmaking and Patriarchal Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia in Heroes and Villains’, Caighlan Smith
‘Sexual Violence and Asexual Erotics in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber’, Nadia Saleh
‘Mythic Deconstruction in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop and Nights at The Circus’, Dr Wiem Krifa
‘The Rewilding of Fairy: Queer Desires in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber’, Elizabeth A. Howard
‘Ghosts at an Exhibition: From Image to Text in Angela Carter’s Strange Worlds’, Marie Mulvey-Roberts
‘Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience? Artists Statement’, Vanessa Marr
‘Gerdas’ Chandelier: Artist’s Statement’ Dagmara Rudkin
‘Fragile’, Jess Richards
‘Fragments of fragility’, Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen
‘Ba’lat Ov from The Jewish Book Of Horror’, Brenda Tolian
‘What Three Words is This?’, Alison Habens
‘Cat & Mouse’, Susanna Goldfinger
‘The CEO whose Daughters went to Collect Sticks’, Mark P. Henderson
‘What Must it Have Been Like to Walk Through That World?’, Holly Day
‘On the Cusp of Spring’, Holly Day
‘Magic’, Holly Day
‘The Gourd’s Tale’, Brian Szumsky
‘I take your daughter to the windmill’, Tabby Hayward
A review of A Cultural History of Fairy Tales: Vol. I: A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity, B.C. Kennedy
A review of The Heroine with 1,001 Faces, Victoria Leslie
A review of The Fairy Tellers, Paul Quinn
A review of Human Frailties and Faculties: Social Relationships in English, Persian and German Folktales, Naomi Foyle
A review of The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect, Katherine Langrish
A review of Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway, Katherine Langrish
A review of Fantasy: How It Works, Taylor Driggers
A review of The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Joanna Gilar

Gramarye 24 - an edited collection of academic essays, short fiction, poetry and reviews themed on fairy tales, fantasy and speculative fiction.

This issue includes:
‘At the Crest of the Korean Wave, Down the Rabbit Hole of Hallyu: Creating Boundless Cultural Resonance through Wooh Nayoung’s Reinterpretation of Popular Fairy Tales’, Selena Rae Bucu and John Axel Orencia
‘The Fairy Mythology of Corgis’, Sarah Allison
‘A Note on a Cold Case: Wittgenstein’s Allusion to a Fairy Tale’, Karl Pfeifer
‘Demeter’, Vanessa Marr
‘One with Seven Blows: An Airy Tale’, Paul Shovlin
‘Stillborn’, Beth Walker
‘A Toast to Scapegoats’, Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud
‘The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage’, Amy Bennett-Zendzian
‘The Castle that is the World’, Marly Youmans
A review of A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century, D.L. Ashliman
A review of Supernatural Cities: Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectrality, Amy Butt
A review of The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales, B.C. Kennedy
A review of The Magic Herb, B.C. Kennedy
A review of The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, B.C. Kennedy
A review of Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape, Victoria Leslie

An edited collection of academic essays, short fiction, poetry and reviews themed on fairy tales, fantasy and speculative fiction.

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This issue includes:
‘The Twin Brothers: On the reception of Basile in the Low Countries’, Yseult de Blécourt
‘Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Giambattista Basile’s Fairy Tales’, Davood Khazaie
‘The Narrative Frame of Lo Cunto de li cunti: Structure, Collections, and Paradoxes’, Assunta Vitale
‘Neapolitan Tales of Magic between the 15th and the 17th Centuries: Masuccio Salernitano, Girolamo Morlini and 
Giovan Battista Basile’, Giulia Depoli
‘Ovid’s ‘Daphne and Apollo’ [1,2] and Basile’s ‘La Mortella’ (1,2): Texts and Performance’, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
‘Hansel and Gretel Retold’, Kristin Camitta Zimet
‘The Hooded Crow Revived, As Told By The Magpie’, Daniel A. Rabuzzi
‘Daedalus Waiting’, Fija Callaghan
‘Womanskin’, Fija Callaghan
‘Lady Godiva’, Susan Francino
‘My Grandmother’s House’, Sylvie Jane Lewis
‘Red and Wolfe’, Denisha Naidoo
‘A Folktale Telling’, Ella Leith
‘The Green Egg’, Claire Rakich

‘Kupala Brighton: Exploring a Ukrainian Midsummer Festival in an English City’, Marek Kohn and Vladyslava Bondar
A review of Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries, Kirill Melnikov
A review of The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales, B.C. Kennedy
A review of The Folklore of Devon, B.C. Kennedy
A review of Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey through The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Katherine Langrish

The Stepmother's Tale, Lawrence Wilson 

The first issue of the biannual journal for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy.

In Vol. 1, launched 29th May, Jacqueline Simpson writes about her collaboration on folklore with Terry Pratchett; Maria Nikolajeva dis­cusses her favourite story when she was young; Diane Purkiss describes the ‘undomestic’ witch; Karl Bell explores the permutations of the urban legend Spring-heeled Jack; Stephen Badman translates a Danish fairytale; Robert Duggan reviews The Anti-Tale and Karen Stevens reviews New World Orders in Con­temporary Children’s Literature.

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The second issue of the biannual journal for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, available from mid-November.

This issue’s contents include:

•    ‘To tell or not to tell: are fairy tales suitable for children?’, Nicholas Tucker and Jacqueline Simpson continue their BBC Radio 4 debate;

•    ‘A review of Brian Froud’s work’, Anne Anderson, curator of Froud/Lee exhibit ‘The Truth About Faeries’;

•    An interview with Brian Froud and a preview of his latest work, Trolls (image below);

•    ‘Gwyn ap Nudd: Transfigurations of a Character on the way from Medieval Literature to Neo-Pagan Beliefs’, Angelika H. Rüdiger;

•    ‘Count Stoneheart and the First Christmas Tree’, a retelling of a traditional tale by best-selling fantasy author Kate Forsyth;

•    ‘The Well of D'Yerree-in-Dowan’, Patrick Ryan;

•    ‘My Favourite Story when I was young’, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère;

•    ‘Herne’, Steve O’Brien;

•    ‘Whatever happened to the Pixies? The Shrinking Role of Snap, Crackle and Pop in British Rice Krispies Advertising’, Louise Jolly;

•    A review of Tim Killick (ed.) and Alan Cunningham’s Traditional Tales, Sophia Kingshill;

•    A review of Jan Susina’s The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature, Colin Manlove;

•    A review of Giselle Liza Anatol’s Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on the Pop Culture Phenomenon, Malini Roy;

•    A review of Stephen Asma’s On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, Miles Leeson.

•    A review of Maggie Tonkin’s Angela Carter and Decadence. Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère.

Not to mention illustrations by Froud, Mel Grant, Arthur Rackham, Adelaide Claxton, Margaret Jones, Edmund Dulac and many more.

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The fourth issue of the biannual journal for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, available from mid-November 2013. ISBN 9781907852268.

 This issue’s contents include:

• ‘Terry Pratchett, Tiffany Aching, and The Wee Free Men’, Jacqueline Simpson
• ‘After Grimm: The Art of Visual Storytelling’, Sandra Beckett
• ‘My Favourite Stories when I was Young’, Jacqueline Simpson
• ‘Tales beyond Europe: A World full of other Worlds’, Rosalind Kerven
• A translation of Rabbi Nahman’s ‘The Seven Beggars’, Neil Philip
• A review of ‘Conteuses: An Evening with Kate Bernheimer’, Joanna Coleman
• A review of From Fates to Fairies, Francisco Vaz da Silva
• A review of Jane Carroll’s Landscape in Children’s Literature, Naomi Wood
• A review of Sara Maitland’s Gossip from the Forest, Hugh Dunkerley

Not to mention images by Stephen Player, Samantha Sweeting, Tessa Farmer, Wim Hofman, Yoko Yamamoto, Keisuke Kishi, Elise Fagerli, O'Kif, Warja Lavater, Richard Câmara, Gustave Doré, Arthur Rackham, and many more.

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The fifth issue of the biannual journal for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, available from June 2014. ISBN 9781907852299.

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This issue’s contents include:

• ‘The Case of the Ebony Horse’ (Part I), Ruth B. Bottigheimer
• ‘By Fynnon Ddu’, Katherine Langrish
• ‘Fairy-Tale Adaptation in Jim Henson’s “The Storyteller”’, John Pazdziora
• ‘Two Tales from Odds and Sods’, Stephen Badman
• ‘“Iron is Stronger than Grief, but Love is Stronger than Iron”: Reading Fairy-Tale Emotions through Words and Illustrations’, Maria Nikolajeva
• ‘My Favourite Rhymes and Stories when I was Young: Idaho Folklore in the 1940s’, D.L. Ashliman
• A review of Cristina Bacchilega's Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder and Martine Hennard's Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carter’s Translational Poetics, Sadhana Naithani
• A review of Karl Bell's The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures, Scott Wood
• A review of Jack Zipes' The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang, Lili Sarnyai
• A review of Kate Bernheimer's xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, Catriona McAra

Not to mention images by Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Charles Folkard, Brian Froud, Warwick Goble, Arthur Rackham and Binette Schroeder.

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This issue’s contents include:

• ‘The Case of the Ebony Horse’ (Part 2), Ruth B. Bottigheimer
• ‘The American Fantasy Tradition’, Tom Shippey
• ‘The Mythology of the Dark Tower Universe’, Robin Furth
• ‘Child Roland’, Steven O’Brien
• ‘Magic Mirrors and Shifting Skin: An Ecocritical Reading of Cornelia Funke’s Reckless’, Joanna Coleman
• ‘My Life with Fantasy Literature’, Colin Manlove
• A review of Brian Attebery’s Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth, Tom Shippey
• A review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur, Dimitra Fimi
• A review of Nancy Marie Brown’s Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Jacqueline Simpson
• A review of Jennifer Garlen and Anissa Graham’s The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson: Essays on His Work and Legacy Beyond The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, John Patrick Pazdziora
• A review of Andrew Teverson’s Fairy Tale, Cristina Bacchilega

A review of John Lindow’s Trolls: An Unnatural History, Katherine Langrish

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This issue’s contents include:

• ‘Land Under Wave: Reading the Landscapes of Tiffany Aching’, Jane Carroll
• ‘Jacek Yerka's Rhetoric of the Impossible’, Joe Young
• ‘The King’s Amulet’, Rosalind Kerven
• ‘The Seal Wife’, Judith Woolf
• ‘They Say England Has No Folktales’, Jacqueline Simpson
• ‘My Favourite Story When I Was Young’, Sadhana Naithani
• A review of Veronica L. Shanoes’ Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale, Naomi Wood
• A review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, Tom Shippey
• A review of Daniel Gabelman’s George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity, Colin Manlove

A review of Marina Warner’s Once Upon a Time, Martine Hennard

• Dutheil de la Rochère
• A review of Malcolm C. Lyons’ Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange,Ruth B. Bottigheimer
• A review of Adam Roberts’ The Riddles of The Hobbit, Jane Carroll
• A review of Jelena Curcic’s Serbian Fairy Tales, Joanna Coleman
• A review of Jonathan Walker’s Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel, Robin Furth

A review of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City, Alaric Hall

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This issue’s contents include:

• ‘The Mysterious Rolling Wool Bogey’, Simon Young
• ‘The Snow Queen’, script by Anupama Chandrasekhar
• An interview with Anupama Chandrasekhar
• ‘Three Roads River’, Judith Woolf
• ‘Arianrhod’, Steve O’Brien
• ‘But still, the heart doth need a language…’, George Green
• ‘My Favourite Fairyland Fiction’, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
• A Carnivalesque Recasting of the Grimms’ Tales: a review of Natalie Frank's Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Sandra L. Beckett
• A review of Walter De La Mare's Told Again: Old Tales Told Again, Nicholas Tucker
• A review of Daniel Ogden's Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Jacqueline Simpson
• A review of Ann Schmiesing's Disability, Deformity and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Seana Kozar
• A review of Defining Magic: A Reader, Marion Gibson
• A review of MacGillivray's The Last Wolf of Scotland, Niall McDevitt
• A review of The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, Malini Roy
• A review of Jan Beveridge's Children into Swans: Fairy Tales and the Pagan Imagination, Katherine Langrish
• A review of Eliza Granville's Gretel and the Dark,Andrew Teverson
• A review of Terry Pratchett's The Shepherd’s Crown, Jane Carroll
• Correspondence between Jacqueline Simpson and Tom Shippey

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This issue’s contents include:

• Guest Editor’s Introduction, Ruth Bottigheimer
• ‘The Fairy-tale Collections of Andrew Lang and Joseph Jacobs: Identity, Nation, Empire’, Andrew Teverson
• ‘“As the World Falls Down”: David Bowie’s Role as a Father Figure in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth’, John Patrick Pazdziora
• ‘Filming Tolkien’s Legendarium’, Shaun Gunner
• ‘The Devil and St Dunstan’, Steve O’Brien
• An excerpt from Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery, Shweta Taneja
• The Skald and the Spaewife’, Judith Woolf
• ‘Norse Codes in a Wartime Childhood’, Nicholas Tucker
• A review of Bradford Lee Eden’s (ed.) The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences, Shaun Gunner
• A review of Kirsty Logan’s A Portable Shelter, Katherine Langrish
• A review of Stephen Jones’ (ed.) Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, Katherine Langrish
• A review of Kimberley J. Lau’s Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Michelle Ryan-Sautour
• A review of Michael Dylan Foster’s The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, Judith Woolf

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• Dr Paul Quinn, Introduction
• Merlins Isle of Gramarye, Diane Purkiss
• On Fairy Tales, Katherine Langrish
• The Persecuted History of Cinderella: A Case for Oral Tradition in Western Europe, Julie Lauren-Jacokes Koehler
• How authentic is authentic?, Rosalind Kerven
• Interview with Juliet Marillier, by Ceri Houlbrook
• An excerpt from Raven Flight, Juliet Marillier
• My Favorite Story When I Was Young, or: The Boy Who Went Forth to Unlearn What Fear Was, Donald Haase
• A review of The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Jack Zipes
• A review of Cinderella across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, D. L. Ashliman
• A review of Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney, Rose Williamson
• A review of Seven Miles of Steel Thistles, Sara Cleto
• A review of Black Dog Folklore, Jacqueline Simpson
• A review of First Light, Maureen Kincaid Speller
• A review of Tolkien Among The Moderns, Siddharth Pandey
• Correspondence from Judith Woolf

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• Introduction, Lorna Gray
• ‘Subversive or What? Fairies and Rebellion’, Jeremy Harte
• ‘The Suburban Boggart’, Ceri Houlbrook
• ‘Wisconsin Werewolves’, Willem de Blécourt
• ‘The “Ancient Celtic Year” in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy’, Dimitra Fimi
  • ‘Ball-Gowned Bookworms, ‘Bad’ Fairies and Bold Adventurers: Fairy-Tale Films and Feminism’, Sue Short
  • ‘The Wondrous and the Mundane: Everyday Foods in Fairy Tales’, Rose Williamson
• A review of Ruth B. Bottigheimer’s Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic, Willem de Blécourt
• A review of Richard Firth Green’s Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, Katherine Langrish
• A review of Christine A. Jones’ Mother Goose Refigured, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
• A review of Marina Warner’s Fly Away Home: Stories, Andrew Teverson

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• Guest Editor’s Introduction, Paul Quinn
• ‘A Walk through Rackham Land’, Steven O’Brien
• ‘“That was Sussex – seely Sussex for everlastin’!” Arthur Rackham and H.R. Millar’s illustrations to Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill’, Simon Poë
• ‘Dollhouse Architecture: Leonora Carrington and Children’s Literature’, Catriona McAra
• ‘“Maid Maleen”: A fairy-tale study of trauma’, Katherine Langrish
• ‘Herne, the Windsor Bogey’, Simon Young
• ‘A Signing Wife’, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by Simon Hughes
• ‘My Favourite Story when I was Young’, Diane Purkiss
• A review of The Eyrie, Emily Jessica Turner
• A review of Alice in Transmedia Wonderland, Ida Yoshinaga

A review of Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale, Rose Williamson

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Guest Editor’s Introduction, Paul Quinn

‘‘Fairy-Tale Architextuality and the Prince’s Pleasures’, Lucy Fraser

‘Flying Carpets in the Arabian Nights Disney, Dyâb ... and d’Aulnoy?’, Ruth B. Bottigheimer

‘prick song’, Zoe Gilbert

‘Tolkien’s style’, Colin Manlove

‘C. S. Lewis and the Whore of Babylon: Anti-Catholic Polemic and Ulster Protestant Rhetoric in The Chronicles of Narnia,’ Paul Quinn

‘My Favourite Stories When I Was Young’, Cristina Bacchilega

A review of The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ Movies, Willem de Blécourt

A review of The Mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack, Anthony James O’Shea

A review of The Tar Baby: A Global History, B.C. Kennedy

A review of Magical Folk, Katherine Langrish

A review of Folk, Victoria Leslie

A review of Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid”, Victoria Leslie

A review of Knock Twice, Joanna Gilar

The 14th issue of Gramarye is available as a pdf or Kindle .mobi file. The printed edition of Gramarye was available to pre-ordering customers and subscribers only. ISBN 978-1-907852-57-2.

Contents include:-

• Guest Editor’s Introduction, Steven O’Brien
• ‘Stepping into Story: Narrative Grammar in Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Cycle’, Paul Williams
• ‘From Ogre to Woodlouse: A Journey through Names’, Jeremy Harte
• ‘Fluid Boundaries: Animals and People in Native American Myths’, Rosalind Kerven
• Four extracts from The Gloaming, Kirsty Logan
• ‘Zezolla Remastered: Record Store Day Special Release’, Rebecca Do Rosario
• ‘Murmurings of Furs: Curating the Exhibition “Tomoko Konoike: Fur Story”’, Mayako Murai
• A review of Shaun Cooper’s British Witch Legends of Sussex, Jacqueline Simpson
• A review of Adam Scovell’s Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange, Emily Jessica Turner
• A review of Jack Zipes’ Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards, Catherine Parsons
• A review of Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario’s Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition: What Cinderella Wore, B.C. Kennedy
• A review of Rosalind Kerven’s Native American Myths: Collected 1636-1919, B.C. Kennedy
• A review of Jack Zipes’ The Sorceror’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales, Donald Haase

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This issue includes:

Translated tales

• Simon Hughes, ‘Camilla Collett: A Walk and a Tale’
• Valentina Polcini, ‘Dino Buzzati’s ‘Cypresses’: A Rackham-inspired Story

Articles on fantasy and gothic:

• Jeana Jorgensen, ‘Changelings with a Caffeine Addiction: How Urban Fantasy Adapts Folklore’
• Dr Sara Cleto and Dr Brittany Warman, ‘Porphyro is Dead: Exploring Narrative Ambiguity and Folk In-tertexts in Keats’ ‘The Eve of Saint Agnes’  

Speculative Fiction

• Jonathan Mills, ‘The Broken Isles’
• Poppy O’Neill, ‘Tomb of the Unknown Gravida’

• Articles on fairy tales

  • Sherryl Clark, ‘Writing New Fairy Tales: The Tattered Coat’
  • Dikaia Gavala, ‘Let It Go: Revising ‘The Princess Story’ in Disney’s Frozen’

   

  Poetry

  • Matthew Francis, ‘Ye Xian’
  • Lawrence Wilson, ‘A Sestina for May Eve’

   

  Reviews

  • A review of The Company of Wolves, Emily Jessica Turner
  • A review of Fairies: A Dangerous History, Francesca Bihet
  • A review of Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers, Anthony James O’Shea
  • A review of Dancing with Trees: Eco-Tales from the British Isles, Joanna Gilar
  • A review of Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland, Rose Williamson
  • A review of Aladdin: A New  Translation, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
  • A review of ALL KINDS OF FUR: Erasure Poems & New Translation of a tale from the Brothers Grimm, Sara Cleto

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This issue includes:

‘Benioff and Weiss’s Bleak Midwinter’, Joseph Rex Young

‘In Search of Jenny Greenteeth’, Simon Young

‘Searching for Janet, Queen of the Fairies’, Katherine Langrish

‘“A Fairy, or Else an Insect”: Traditions at Fairy Wells’, Jeremy Harte

‘Five Fairy Tale Poems’, Hasan Alizadeh, with translations by
Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

‘Whistle (a pantoum)’, Lawrence Wilson

‘The Meeting of Winter and Spring’, Amelia Brown

‘Cuckoo’, Gill Fryzer

A review of The Dragon: Fear and Power, Jacqueline Simpson

A review of Sussex Folk Tales for Children, Paul Quinn

A review of Relief after Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days, Andrew Teverson

A review of Teaching Fairy Tales, Lorenza Gianfrancesco

A review of Irish Gothic Fairy Tales, B.C. Kennedy

A review of Shapeshifters: A History, B.C. Kennedy

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This issue includes:

‘British and Irish Mermaids in Four Contemporary Fairy Tales: The Beauty of Hybridity’, Francesca Arnevas

‘Love in a Whirl: Sea Legend and Self-Knowledge’, Maria Tausiet’

‘Coping with Supernatural Sea Entities: Folk Beliefs in the Nordic Countries’, Ya’acov Sarig

‘The Sea and his Daughter’, Helen Bruce

‘The Deer Child’, Christie Maurer

‘Midnight Fairy’, Kim Malinowski

‘She Vows to Follow the Path’ and ‘The Fix’, Marybeth Rua-Larsen

‘Skulls and Roses’ and ‘from Dragonland’, Kathleen Bell

‘Harvest Surrealism: A Review of Leonora’s World’, Catriona McAra

A review of Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn, Judith Woolf

A review of Fairy Tales & Fables from Weimar Days: Collected Utopian Tales, Paul Quinn

A review of Scotland’s  Forgotten Treasure:  the visionary romances of George MacDonald, Paul Quinn

A review of Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales,  Fables and Allegories from Great Britain, Heather Robbins

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This issue includes:

• ‘From Rape Trauma to Genius through Narration in Contemporary Little Red Riding Hood Tales’, Carola Wide and Marinella Rodi-Risberg
• ‘The Mab of Folklore’, Simon Young
• ‘Reclaiming Stories: Invoking the Goddess’, Vanessa Marr and Jessica Moriarty
• ‘Lob’, Iain Rowan
• ‘The Tale of Two Kingdoms’, Ben Coppin
• ‘Child Price’, Akua Lezli Hope
• ‘Sky Is Falling!’, Susan diRende
• ‘The Peddler’, Garry Bliss
• ‘The Miller’s Daughter’, Kathleen Murphey
• ‘The Rise and Fall of Narnia: A review of From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with My Nine-Year-Old Self, Simon Young
• A review of La nouvelle jeunesse des contes: Transcréations des recueils de Perrault et des Grimm, Jack Zipes
• A review of A Pre-Columbian Bestiary: Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America, B.C. Kennedy
• A review of Johnny Breadless: A Pacifist Fairy Tale, B.C. Kennedy
• A review of The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu, Victoria Leslie
• A review of Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations, Lorenza Gianfrancesco
• A review of Fabula Rasa’s poetry collections, Zoe Mitchell

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This issue includes:

‘Harry Potter and the Protocols of the Order of Zion? Or Carelessness, cultural memory and mythic figures’, Paul Quinn

‘“These days people are getting enlightened”: Edward Faragher and Manx fairy beliefs’, Stephen Miller

‘Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus: Carnivalisation from Bakhtin to Feminist Postmodernism’, Wiem Krifa

‘“Fairy Tale is the basis of all my writing”: An Interview with Sally Gardner’, Diana Rodriguez Bonet

‘The Boy’, Natalia Lewis

‘Grandmother Wolf’, Veronika Groke

‘Skin Stilt Rumple: a fairytale, dreamed backwards’, Jess Richards

‘Child Snow’, Jess Richards

‘Co-Walker’, Lucy Stone

‘Tithe’, Emma Newrick

A review of Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters, B.C. Kennedy

A review of Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return by B.C. Kennedy

A review of Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World, B.C. Kennedy

A review of Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French and German Fairy Tales, Joanna Gilar

A review of The Island of Happiness: Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy, Paul Quinn

A review of Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales, Victoria Leslie

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This issue includes:
‘Lord Snow and Ser Piggy: Grotesque Realism on George R.R. Martin’s Wall’, Joseph Rex Young
‘Infinite Modulations: The Music of Nature in Angela Carter’s “The Erl-King”’, Gerald Gaylard
‘Fabular Femininity: Gynoids as Modern  Mythmaking in Live-Action Science Fiction Films’, Dr Rebecca Jones
‘Nigel Kneale and Folklore’, Paul Quinn
‘Finally: The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe in English for the first time’, Simon Roy Hughes
‘The Three Billy-Goats Bruse, Who Should Go to the Saeter and Make Themselves Fat’, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by Simon Roy Hughes
‘The Robber Girl’s Story’, Arielle DeVito
‘Seven Months Away’, Sarah McGowan
‘The Giant Speaks’, Christie Maurer
‘Climate adaptation, #3’, Helen Moore
‘Kathleen’, Charlotte Couse
‘The Good Changeling’, Becca Miles
‘Ki Murangen’, Becca Miles
‘Resurrection Ritual, 1923’, Becca Miles
A review of A Thoroughly Mischievous Person: The Other Arthur Ransome, B.C. Kennedy
A review of An Introduction to Fantasy, Miles Leeson
A review of The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, Paul Quinn

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