Folklore

Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, myths, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.

New Releases Tagged "Folklore"

Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist, #1)
Norse Mythology
The Bear and the Nightingale
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
When the Sea Turned to Silver
The Wild Girl
Baba Yaga's Assistant
The Singing Bones
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes
Lost Souls
Fables (The Deluxe Edition, #7)
The Storyteller
Poison's Kiss (Poison's Kiss, #1)
Poseidon: Earth Shaker (Olympians, #5)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
American Gods
The Arabian Nights
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
The Mitten
The Complete Fairy Tales
Uprooted
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Deathless (Leningrad Diptych, #1)
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Beowulf
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Song of the Sea
24 books — 5 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Best of Mythic Fiction
481 books — 649 voters
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Yer Hidden Charms
54 books — 1 voter

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Phyllis FraserQuiet Houses by Simon Kurt UnsworthBloody Ghost Stories by Brianna StoddardThe Lunenburg Werewolf and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Steve Vernon
Ghost Story Collections
95 books — 29 voters
Old Dykes I Have Known by P.R. CharnleyHard Knocks by Harry YoungAround the World on a Nickel by Jimmy BedfordPanamarenko by PanamarenkoWall-Paintings by Snake Charmers in Tanganyika by H. Cory
Stomp Down Reader
100 books — 1 voter


Signe Pike
“ Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love with a beautiful faery woman. They had no sooner married and borne a child when she was summoned to return to her people. Husband and wife said a tearful goodbye and parted ways at Fairy Bridge, which you can still visit today. Despite the grieving chief, a celebration was held to honor the birth of the newborn boy, the next great chief of the MacLeods. In all the excitement of the celebration, th ...more ”
― Signe Pike, Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World

Terri Windling
“ I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like George Macdonald's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B. Yeats, and Sylvia Townsend Warner's splendid book The Kingdoms of Elfin. (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until the 1970s, not long before her death, but she was an English writer popular in the middle decades of the 20th century.) I'm also a big Pre-Raphaelite fan, so I lo ...more ”
― Terri Windling

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