Fairy Tales

Fairy tale is a type of short narrative that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories thus designated explicitly refer to fairies.

Fairy tales are high fantasy based on stories that are not only not true, but that couldn't possibly be true, while Legends are sometimes perceived as real or plausible. Fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unli
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The Swan's Daughter
Silver & Blood (Silver & Blood, #1)
Enchanting the Fae Queen (Queens of Villainy, #2)
Raven Saga, Vol. 1
Under Gorse and Stone
Fairy Tale
A Sorceress Comes to Call
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
Cinder House
Grimm Curiosities
Never Ever After (Never Ever After, #1)
The Butcher of the Forest
Gilded (Gilded, #1)
A Forgery of Fate
A Curse of Shadows and Ice (Shadowbound, #1)
Enchanting the Fae Queen (Queens of Villainy, #2)
Cursed (Gilded, #2)
Malice (Malice Duology, #1)
Lady Tremaine
Huntsman (Hunted Kingdom, #1)
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
Uprooted
Spinning Silver
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Beastly (Beastly, #1)
Cruel Beauty
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West

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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

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