Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales

A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.

THESE MYTHS and folktales are a collection from my own pool of stories, told when I was a child in the village and locked up somewhere in the recesses of my memory.

Growing up in Chicago, Kyle Adams could never quite fit in with the other kids, and after being mysteriously transferred to a new foster home in northern Michigan for his senior year of high school, it seems that things are going to be the same.

Can an overflowing cesspool lead to romance?

All was peaceful in the quiet, Borough of Sewickley, PA, until someone decided to go ahead and raise the dead.

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To Wake The Dead is a new take on the raising the dead phenomenon.

A mystical, whimsical romp through the universe and the Heavens for an answer to a question that cannot wait until tomorrow.

"e;There is a legend that if one gazes at the horizon from the summit of the mountain, he will glimpse the land from whence we came.

Marienna's Fantasy tells the story of a Greek-Texan scientist playing out his godmother's fantasies.

Celtic sea people come in as many varieties as there are people.

It began long before man ever took his first breath.

Emory and Tostan had every right to believe that the defeat of the sorcerer Tolrak had restored peace to their homeland.

Life is a progression of matches.

The Sage of Wales' adventures continue in this exciting new collection by Andrew Ian Dodge In a short novel, The Sage must help his friend, Reginald Wiggenbottom, discover strength out of legend in order to save his unborn son from a nasty conspiracy Followed by three additional short tales First, the Sage must help a man come to grips with a dangerous family legacy.

The Warrior's Dance weaves a gripping account of Rome's third king, Tullus Hostilius, who is celebrated in history as the bellicose leader who destroyed Rome's mother city, Alba Longa.

Renowned storyteller Docia Williams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books-Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas, Phantoms of the Plains, Ghosts Along the Texas Coast, and When Darkness Falls-then she adds a hundred pages of new ghostly tales from the Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Central Texas, including the Dallas area.

"e;In a time long past, of an age within ages, there was the war.

The stunning conclusion to the duology that began with the internationally bestselling Sun of Blood and Ruin, this gender-flipped Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and sixteenth-century Mexican history into a swashbuckling historical fantasy filled with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance.

The lyrical fantasy masterpiece about stories, legends and how they change the world.

The amphibious cult classic: this magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman is 'seductive' (Margaret Atwood), 'genius' (Patricia Lockwood), 'perfect' (Max Porter), 'a feminist masterpiece' (Carmen Maria Machado), and 'out-weirds and out-romances anything today' (Marlon James).

Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before .

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons?

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons?

Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman religion, offering evidence of practices including divination and oracles, ruler cult and civic foundation myth.

The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and its implications continue to be topics that fire the popular imagination and engender scholarly discussion and controversy.

In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth.

Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current timesEdouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales.

The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance.

What did the Romans know about their gods?

Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox.

Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies.

Examines the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies, using Çatalhöyük, as a case study.

Examines the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies, using Çatalhöyük, as a case study.

Explores the parallels between the Odyssey and genres of myth extant in various Near Eastern cultures, in particular the Bible.

Jack Goody, one of the world''s most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy.

Explores the parallels between the Odyssey and genres of myth extant in various Near Eastern cultures, in particular the Bible.

Jack Goody, one of the world''s most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy.

The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance.

This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.

Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets.

This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.

This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas.

Selection of translated texts focusing primarily on political institutions and political activity in ancient Greece.

This book explores the contrast between our modern understanding of free speech and that of the ancient Athenians.

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