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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,789 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 338 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 230,630 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,421 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 341,986 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 162 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 110,742 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,928 ratings — published 1888
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 139 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.49 — 88,205 ratings — published 2019
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 262,082 ratings — published 2015
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 987,771 ratings — published 2001
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.96 — 205,061 ratings — published 2023
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 114 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,982 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,196 ratings — published 2022
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,442 ratings — published 1850
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,326 ratings — published 1975
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,068 ratings — published 800
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,330,282 ratings — published 2018
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,720 ratings — published 1956
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,487 ratings — published 1000
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,805 ratings — published 2011
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,680 ratings — published 1855
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,587 ratings — published 1400
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 130,879 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,348 ratings — published 1893
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,979 ratings — published 2009
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,606 ratings — published 1992
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,417 ratings — published 1989
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,545 ratings — published 1989
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 76,954 ratings — published 2019
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,323 ratings — published 1973
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,599 ratings — published 1911
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,729 ratings — published 2017
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,398 ratings — published 1984
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,086 ratings — published 1904
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,934 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,292 ratings — published 2018
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,830 ratings — published 1949
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,006 ratings — published 1987
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,446 ratings — published 2023
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,845 ratings — published 1979
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,820 ratings — published 2014
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,057 ratings — published 1835
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,099 ratings — published 1697
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,436 ratings — published 2016
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,687 ratings — published 1890
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,611 ratings — published 1988
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,670 ratings — published 1981
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,464 ratings — published 2024
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,425 ratings — published 2009
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,291 ratings — published 1975
“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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“What are you reading?” she asked as he poured himself scotch and her a vodka. She looked over to the deserted volume. “Stories and Legends of Pagan Russia,” she read aloud. “Are you catching up on Yvan’s biography?”
― Cry of the Firebird
― Cry of the Firebird
