Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

    'The Ghost’ by Walter de la Mare ‘Who knocks?’   ‘I, who was beautiful Beyond all dreams to restore, I from the ro...

Eastern City by Edmund Dulac by John Dickinson The cave of wonders! Torchlight glitters on piles of gems. It glows on jars of incens...

The Pied Piper by Arthur Rackham by Joanne Harris Raised as I was on the darkest, grimmest of Grimm’s fairy tales, I’ve always been ve...

In this short tale, reminiscent of the Scottish ballad ‘The False Knight on the Road’, a quick-witted girl keeps a monster at bay. ...

I hope you'll forgive a little blatant self-promotion, but I'm going around this morning with a grin like a Cheshire Cat, after a co...

 by Inbali Iserles In the tale of Rumpelstiltskin, a mill owner boasts to the king of his daughter’s talent for spinning straw into gol...

From: "Scandinavian Folklore" ed: William Craigie 1896 As every one was eager to have a nisse attached to his farm, the followin...