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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,313 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 355 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 244,174 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,873 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 348,066 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 116,649 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,136 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 272,349 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 142 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 93,288 ratings — published 2019
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.95 — 235,218 ratings — published 2023
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,815 ratings — published 2001
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 123 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 120 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.17 — 158,043 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,787 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,961 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,913 ratings — published 1850
Italian Folktales: The Literary Collection of Two Hundred Classic Tales and Traditional Italian Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,815 ratings — published 1956
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 355,122 ratings — published 1000
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,472 ratings — published 2011
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,374 ratings — published 1975
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,446,054 ratings — published 2018
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,714 ratings — published 1855
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,421 ratings — published 1893
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 93 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,561 ratings — published
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,448 ratings — published 2013
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,814 ratings — published 1992
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,846 ratings — published 1200
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,573 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,454 ratings — published 2019
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,698 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,216 ratings — published 1989
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,877 ratings — published 2017
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,401 ratings — published 2018
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 102,313 ratings — published 2022
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,379 ratings — published 1973
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,619 ratings — published 1911
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,424 ratings — published 1904
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,188 ratings — published 1979
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,148 ratings — published 1949
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,437 ratings — published 1984
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,475 ratings — published 2023
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,270 ratings — published 1835
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,813 ratings — published 1890
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 33,650 ratings — published 2024
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,554 ratings — published 1988
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,104 ratings — published 1987
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,379 ratings — published -1800
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,367 ratings — published 1697
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,431 ratings — published 1975
The Fox Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,362 ratings — published 2024
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,558 ratings — published 2016
“My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I had ever read and dump it into one book--everything I like--trying to evoke some of the decadence… Vampires are a high-class monster: They want to dress up. They want to drink a lot of absinthe, or force their victims to drink a lot of absinthe. They have big parties and have elegant rituals. I think that's a thing we associate with vampires--they are the royalty of our monsters. We expect them to be rich, we expect them to be well-dressed. I wanted to have some of that be true because I like it, and have some of it not be true because it's kind of weird.
I wanted to put in the idea of infection, which I was really interested in and which was a big feature of the vampire books I read growing up. And, the fear and desire for infection--the way in which our urge towards loving vampires is nihilistic. Our fear of them is our survival instincts kicking in.”
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I wanted to put in the idea of infection, which I was really interested in and which was a big feature of the vampire books I read growing up. And, the fear and desire for infection--the way in which our urge towards loving vampires is nihilistic. Our fear of them is our survival instincts kicking in.”
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“It would be dreadfully
ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed
appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.”
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ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed
appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.”
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