by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 27, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
In “The Land Where One Never Dies,” a boy decides that the common narrative about dying at the end of a life just isn’t for him. He says, “This tale about everybody having to die doesn’t set too well with me. I will go in search of the land where one never dies.” He...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 24, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Miscellany
Before you begin reading, open up the “soundtrack” to this piece—Amy Winehouse’s “Love is a Losing Game”—in another tab or window. This piece is meant to be read with that song as accompaniment. Also, see Winehouse’s handwritten...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 20, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
King of the uncharactered, the Voynich manuscript takes cipher sleuthing to velum-unraveling heights. Antiquarian Wilfred Voynich purchased it from the Collegio Romano in 1912, his widow setting in motion a chain of bequeathments prior to its Yale arrival 57 years...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 17, 2017 | Prose, Web Exclusives
In this moment of crisis, I return to the lessons the fairy tale have offered me about how the world works and although the world no longer relies on the inherited wisdom, the good and the ugly of how folklore teaches us to navigate the world still applies. Some of...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 13, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
The phrase “Gothic church umbrella” doesn’t convey grotesquery, yet this was the gargoyle’s original purpose, their spouted heads diverting rainwater from building walls. We have France’s St. Romanus to thank for the legend itself, as he drove the horrific...
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