Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

by Lily Hyde It's more than a year now I’ve been on the road. I’ve spent most of my adult life in other countries than the one I...

by Candy Gourlay Are there such things as fairy tales in the Philippines where I grew up?  If a fairy tale requires a fairy, then no - w...

by Pauline Fisk My whole life has been spent trying to bring together ‘real life’ and the world of fantasy, in particular by fin...

The Fisher and the Merman From Scandinavian Folklore, ed William Craigie, 1896 Here’s a nice story about inter-species co-...

This Saturday, the 10th of November, there was a protest outside the prestigious gold-leaf-covered gate of All Souls College, Oxford.  ...

I'm taking the weekend off from Steel Thistles, as today you will find me talking about trolls to my friend Lucy Coats, over at Scribble...

Sara Allgood as Maurya, photo by Carl Van Vechten , 1938 Maurya:   (raising her head and speaking as if she did not see the people aro...