Beware of myth as we approach the nation's 250th year. The true threat to America has always been a white supremacist ...

Race And The Development Of The European Fairy Tale, Literature Professor Kimberly Lau reveals how “innocent” stories often ...

From rags to riches and beasts to beanstalks, these are the popular fairy tales that shape our happily ever afters Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission ...

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...