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The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy

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.

http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/journal/

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