Resources for Writing About Myth, Fairy Tales, and Folklore

If you have a particular interest in myth, fairy tale, and folklore - which can be a rich foundation for all kinds of writing - here are some resources for you.

ONLINE RESOURCES

• Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification of Folk Tales

• Sur La Lune

• Professor Ashliman’s Folk Texts

• Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts

• Terri Windling

• Theodora Goss

• Sacred Text Collections

• The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy

• Folklore Thursday on Twitter

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

• Aurelia, Carol Mavor

• Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales, Vanessa Joosen

• Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, Jack Zipes

• From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner

• Once Upon a Time, Marina Warner

• Stories About Stories, Brian Attebury

• The Fairy Tale as Art Form and Portrait of Man, Max Luthi

• The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Maria Tatar

• The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Marie-Louise Von Franz

• The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre, Jack Zipes

• Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories, Diane Purkiss

CONTEMPORARY RETELLINGS

• Among Others, Jo Walton

• Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth

• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire

• Deathless, Catherine M. Valente

• Foxfire, Wolfskin, Sharon Blackie

• Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, Emma Donoghue

• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, Kate Bernheimer

• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link

• Snow White, Red Blood, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce

• Spindle’s End, Robin McKinley

• The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden

• The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

• Uprooted, Naomi Novik