Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is ...

Long before Disney turned Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid into global blockbusters, European writers, editors, and folklorists captivated readers with their fairy-tale collections as early ...

Every life is a universe all its own.

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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot. The album sometimes does fit that description—especially on the relatively strong, if unexpectedly downcast, opening three songs.

Zenescope may be listed in the new digital-only Diamond Previews, but they have pulled out entirely from the distributor and have made themselves the first publisher whose work is available through ...

Fairy Tail may be a classic anime involving magic and adventure, but even with its namesake, it doesn’t exactly exude the classic, vintage, nostalgic, or even magical feel as compared to these other ...

Tara Isabella Burton opens her novel Here in Avalon with a time-honored line: “Once there were two sisters.” Right away, we know what awaits. This is a fairy tale. But entering into the realm of fairy ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

There are perhaps no words more enchanting, whimsical, and promising than “Once upon a time.” As Gemini author and academic Jack Zipes maintains, “Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and ...

Henry Justice Ford, illustration of Andrew Lang, The Book of Romance (1902), one of the many books of fairytales Lang and his wife published (image via Wikimedia Commons) Specters of the Marvelous ...