A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character the reader is led to believe is the protagonist is known only as “the ...

The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time ...

Zipes might argue that its truth stems from an engagement with its conditions of origin. As he has persuasively shown, both in his most recent book and in many previous ones, the tales reflect the ...

“This is our holy of holies,” says Idit Pintel-Ginsburg with great reverence as she opens the door to a small, windowless room where rows of long shelves are lined with hundreds of cardboard files.

‘It seems that mankind is born with an avid appetite for details of other lives beside the one his own small span of corporeal existence grants to him,” the late folklorist Sybil Marshall writes by ...

The dead of winter is one of the best times to break out your favorite creepy American folk tales. What else is there to do? It's too cold to venture outside for anything more than the bare ...

As Americans, we love a good scare — especially when it hits close to home. From horror films to urban legends, the thrill of fear and the unknown can be addicting. The Washington County region is no ...

Disney’s big screen adaptations of fairy tales and folk stories have become as well-known as the original stories on which they’re based — and, in many cases, the Disney versions of the plots are even ...

Although the scene is already a first-rate subversion played for laughs, the scene has impressive historical precedence. In ...

A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups' has been unveiled, showcasing a chilling and powerful presence. The film, a period gangster drama ...

Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game in which you lead a ragtag band of peasants in growing a small settlement into a thriving market town, while dastardly minions plot your ...