ImagineFX

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LOCATION: Finland MEDIA: PaintTool SAI, Photoshop WEB: www.artstation.com/midorisa “I enjoy painting artworks inspired by mythology, fairy tales and nature,” says Riikka, a fantasy artist and illustrator who enhances her work with vibrant colours and

All About History

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A common trope in fairy and folk tales is magical protection. This can take the form of an enchanted object, such as a hero’s shield, or it can take the form of a space or place, like the mythical Isle of Avalon in Arthurian myth, sheltered from the

Empire Australasia

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As commander of the fairy law enforcement unit Lower Elements Police (also known, genuinely, as ‘LEPrecon’) in this Disney fantasy, Dame Judi Dench is a tough cookie. Clap your hands if you believe in justice! Sure, this gang of motorcyclists are le

TIME

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IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCUSS Gingerbread, the sixth novel from Helen Oyeyemi—named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013—without the mention of fairy tales. Just a few of the new book’s familiar elements include enchanted confecti

Country Homes & Interiors

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I’ve always loved fairy tales. I was given a copy of Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales when I was around nine years old and I remember reading it from cover to cover, over and over again – Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, The Three Spinners… I loved them all.

NPR

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Kenji Miyazawa is a beloved author in Japan; this book — a reissue of a 1993 story collection — balances chaos and kindness, natural and supernatural to build a world in which anything might happen.

NPR

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Elizabeth Lim's new young adult novel follows a girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets off for the emperor's court in place of her ailing father, who's been summoned as an imperial tailor.

Watch

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“USUALLY, I’M TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM reality,” says best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who is noted for embracing magical realism in such novels as Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, and The Marriage of Opposites. At first glance, her 28th work of adul

The Paris Review

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Sabrina Orah Mark’s monthly column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. “I know you’re the tooth fairy.” Noah, my eight-year-old, looks me dead in the eye. We are out to dinner. A large television hangs from the wall. Without blinking, h

Guernica Magazine

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The novelist discusses his latest book, The Changeling, and imagining the deaths of your children. The post Victor LaValle: Fairy Tales Redux appeared first on Guernica.

Chat It's Fate

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In the UK, we’ve got the Beast of Bodmin, Black Shucks and the Loch Ness monster – just a few of the weird and wonderful entities that are the stuff of British folklore and fairy tales. Other countries have their own crazy creatures – and they’re eve

Literary Hub

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In the happy country of fairies, one leaves it only to find one’s way back. One suffers only to become happy, whereas pain is for us an enigma and life a struggle without end where the better people are the first to fall. There, in the country of fai

Chat It's Fate

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Witches love an altar – but it’s always important that our altars represent the season we’re in and are decorated appropriately. Roses are the flower of June, so they’re a popular choice for summer altars – however, red, pink or yellow only as we nev

The Millions

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1. The logic of novice programming goes something like this: Run function (x, y) If x is greater than y: Do this Else if y is greater than x: Do that Else: Something else happens. I quickly learned that computers don’t like choice, and they don’t lik

Inked

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Las Vegas is the home of many beautiful women; however, none are quite as magical as those created by Kurtis Rykovich who pulls his inspiration from fairy tales, horror, comics and the furthest depths of his imagination. However, while his Damsels ar

NPR

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Anna-Marie McLemore braids old bits of myth about swans and cursed sisters into a new, more inward-looking story that lets readers see just how hard it is to be a character in a fairy tale.

Writing Magazine

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Enchanted Conversation is a monthly US webzine for adult readers with a love of classic fairytales. Originally debuting in 2007, the site relaunched this summer and now publishes one story per month and two non-fiction articles. The editor is Kate Wo

Chat It's Fate

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AScottish psychic snapped a photo of a ‘girl ghost’ at a castle where she’d smelled ‘rotting meat.’ 23-year old Bethany McPherson was visiting Lennox Castle in Scotland when she had the experience. She told the Daily Record that, during the trip, s

The Guardian

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A new series of rejigged tales gets much closer to the spirit of these stories than the ‘traditional’ versions we’re force-fed

Los Angeles Times

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Classic fairy tales are reimagined in present-day New York in the dark CBS All Access series "Tell Me a Story." The forests and cottages of those old fables are an urban jungle here, populated with power brokers, male go-go dancers and, most shocking

The Paris Review

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On Kay Nielsen, Disney, and the sanitization of the modern fairy tale. A concept drawing by Kay Nielsen for The Little Mermaid. The mermaid in the illustration was lithe, mysterious, sylphlike. She perched on a rock, inscrutable. For years, I’d been

Fortean Times

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Forteana and folklore are strongly connected to sleep. Ghosts walk down corridors while residents hide under duvets; aggressive polts pull sheets from over and even under sleepers. Aliens have, of course, perfected early morning visits, with abductio

The Atlantic

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On Saturday, millions of people around the world will tune in to watch a fairy tale. A prince will marry his beloved and, together, they’ll parade through the streets in a horse-drawn carriage, waving—royally—to thousands of adoring subjects as they

WHO

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Based on the Eoin Colfer novel, this kid-friendly fantasy film (which had been intended for cinema release) follows 12-year-old genius Artemis Fowl II (Shaw), who learns a world of fairies is hidden in the depths of Earth – and his criminal mastermin

Chat It's Fate

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Reading fairy tales as an adult is a completely different experience to the bedtime stories you enjoyed as a child, especially if you pay close attention to the magical symbolism within the tales. Clues to your personal gifts, strengths and challenge

Literary Hub

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I read hundreds of pages a week for my English PhD program. When I left my program after four years, I discovered an unexpected side effect: I could no longer read the vast majority of adult fiction. This wasn’t just a matter of taste, but of physica

The Atlantic

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This article is from the archive of our partner Ever wonder why boys and girls choose particular toys, particular colors, and particular stories? Why is it that girls want to dress in pink and to be princesses, or boys want to be Darth Vader, warr

PC Gamer

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Taking away some of the complexities seen in other JRPGS, Fae Tactics is a stripped down and faster experience than classics like Final Fantasy Tactics. From the outset, the game lays out building blocks that most strategy players are familiar with:

NPR

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Disney's new live-action extravaganza is just the latest retelling of this classic fairy tale. But why do Beauty and her Beast have such a hold on us? And why are there so many versions of their tale?

Literary Hub

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Rachel Ingalls’ fictions are like nothing I’ve ever read before. To call her a practitioner of American Gothic doesn’t quite do justice to the blend of flavors she brings to the genre. Eerie hybrids of Richard Yates-esque domestic realism, B-movie ho