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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,866 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.35 — 111,171 ratings — published 2017
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.10 — 342,376 ratings — published 2017
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.88 — 77,105 ratings — published 2019
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,534 ratings — published 2018
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,961 ratings — published 1812
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,613 ratings — published 2023
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.15 — 565,504 ratings — published 2008
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.48 — 88,541 ratings — published 2019
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.02 — 262,622 ratings — published 2015
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,105 ratings — published 2024
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.72 — 26,211 ratings — published 2024
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,532 ratings — published -560
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,441 ratings — published 2016
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,298 ratings — published 2018
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,335,905 ratings — published 2018
Red Rose Paranormal - Everyday paranormal tales and classic cases from Lancashire - Halls and Manors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 2012
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.10 — 988,770 ratings — published 2001
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,136,113 ratings — published 2015
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,493 ratings — published 1989
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,942 ratings — published 1888
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.76 — 77,652 ratings — published 1375
The Bog Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,622 ratings — published 2024
The Once and Future Witches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.02 — 105,425 ratings — published 2020
Japanese Fairy Tales (Tuttle Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,525 ratings — published 1903
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.86 — 29,694 ratings — published 2023
Thornhedge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,000 ratings — published 2023
The Changeling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.76 — 27,971 ratings — published 2017
Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.32 — 41,323 ratings — published 2015
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.78 — 159,497 ratings — published 2023
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.20 — 101,910 ratings — published 2021
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,794 ratings — published 2013
The Salt Grows Heavy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.54 — 28,478 ratings — published 2023
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.06 — 89,765 ratings — published 2022
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.96 — 207,083 ratings — published 2023
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.23 — 239,460 ratings — published 2015
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,417 ratings — published 2022
Spells for Forgetting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.85 — 70,626 ratings — published 2022
Hester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.96 — 46,248 ratings — published 2022
The Burning Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.00 — 52,325 ratings — published 2021
Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.71 — 164,881 ratings — published 1995
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse, #0.5, 2.5, 2.6)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,566 ratings — published 2017
American Tall Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.01 — 891 ratings — published 1991
Once Upon a River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.94 — 100,053 ratings — published 2018
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.87 — 254,439 ratings — published 2004
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,711,834 ratings — published 2018
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,746 ratings — published 2017
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 4.15 — 111,255 ratings — published 2017
The Hush (Johnny Merrimon, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.73 — 8,697 ratings — published 2018
The Devil's Colony (The Fatal Folklore Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-lore)
avg rating 3.96 — 210 ratings — published 2017
“There is an old Arabic story about a man who hears Death is coming for him, so he sneaks away to Samarra. And when he gets there, he finds Death in the market, and Death says, "You know, I just felt like going on vacation to Samarra. I was going to skip you today, but how lucky you showed up to find me!" And the man is taken after all. Arthur Less has traveled halfway around the world in a cat's cradle of junkets, changing flights and fleeing from a sandstorm into into the Atlas Mountains like someone erasing his trail or outfoxing a hunter—and yet Time has been waiting here all along. In a snowy alpine resort. With cuckoos. Of course Time would turn out to be Swiss. He tosses back the champagne. He thinks: Hard to feel bad for a middle-aged white man.”
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“There are a number of good books that draw upon fox legends -- foremost among them, Kij Johnson's exquisite novel The Fox Woman. I also recommend Neil Gaiman's The Dream Hunters (with the Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano); Larissa Lai's unusual novel, When Fox Is a Thousand; Helen Oyeyemi's recent novel, Mr. Fox; and Ellen Steiber's gorgeous urban fantasy novel, A Rumor of Gems, as well as her heart-breaking novella "The Fox Wife" (published in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears). For younger readers, try the "Legend of Little Fur" series by Isobelle Carmody. You can also support a fine mythic writer by subscribing to Sylvia Linsteadt's The Gray Fox Epistles: Wild Tales By Mail.
For the fox in myth, legend, and lore, try: Fox by Martin Wallen; Reynard the Fox, edited by Kenneth Varty; Kitsune: Japan's Fox of Mystery, Romance, and Humour by Kiyoshi Nozaki;Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative by Raina Huntington; The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling by Leo Tak-hung Chan; and The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship, by Karen Smythers.”
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For the fox in myth, legend, and lore, try: Fox by Martin Wallen; Reynard the Fox, edited by Kenneth Varty; Kitsune: Japan's Fox of Mystery, Romance, and Humour by Kiyoshi Nozaki;Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative by Raina Huntington; The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling by Leo Tak-hung Chan; and The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship, by Karen Smythers.”
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