Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

In the widespread legend known as 'The King in the Mountain' (Aarne-Thompson 776), an unsuspecting shepherd or lost traveller s...

In Lady Wilde’s ‘Ancient Legends of Ireland’ there’s a story about a young man, a poet, who attempts to seduce a farmer’s daughter. ...

Claire Dean’s fairy stories are for adults, not because anything in them is inappropriate for children, simply because most childre...

Some years ago my mother handed over to me this book, which had been my grandfather's. I suppose it must have been given to him ...