In the anorexia ward, otherwise known as the Island of Sad Princessess, she was the youngest
Fairy-Tale Miscellany
Browse submissions from past editions, web exclusive content, author Q&A, and more.
Special Report: The Enchanted Quill
Scruple convinces Gargamel to locate the quill, which is protected by fire-breathing griffins in Castle Quill
Special Report: Animal Romance
Interspecies romances, or animal brides and bridegrooms, are a staple of fairy tales. Often, the animal object of affection is actually a human who...
Special Report: The Snow Queen
In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” there is a mirror that distorts the world into extremes of beauty and ugliness. The wholesome love...
Special Report: Some Enchanted Evening
The version of Sleeping Beauty with which most people are familiar is most likely the Brothers Grimm tale, “Little Briar Rose,” and/or the 1959...
Special Report: Faceless Men, Monsters, and Noppera-bō
The figure of the faceless monster is common in horror and fantasy. You can find several variations in the Silent Hill movie series: the Armless Man...
Special Report: Lean In or Fall Down
The “The Red Shoes,” written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1845, is a story of sin and redemption, as are many of Andersen’s stories. His female...
A Brief Interview with Kelly Link
Kelly Link's short stories have been dazzling readers for more than a decade now—her first collection Stranger Things Happen was published in 2001...
Miscellany: The Dido Galleries
Beautiful and brainy, Queen Dido would have been a talk show favorite. Her brother Pygmalion seized the throne the siblings shared and murdered her...
Miscellany: The Fairy-Tale Nature Films of Painlevé & Hamon
The French documentarian Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) made over two hundred short films about natural and scientific phenomena in his lifetime. Many of...
