We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
We are delighted to announce the release of a new issue of Unsettling Wonder, on the theme of Changelings. This issue represents a reboot of the journal, under the new lead editorship of Defne Çizakça.…Continue Reading
The new issue of Unsettling Wonder is now available. On the topic of ‘Fairy Brides’, this issue is strange and angular, taking some unexpected turns along lesser-known paths of folk and fairy lore. We’ve got…Continue Reading
Be it the spindles in Mother Holle and Briar Rose, or the wheels in The Twelve Huntsmen or Rumpelstiltskin, spinning is everywhere in the background of Grimm’s fairy tales. As Maria Tatar points out, there’s…Continue Reading
STAVE III Being the third in a series of guest posts by Daniel Gabelman Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Christmas Eve. Yesterday was the final…Continue Reading
I took a walk in Boase Wood the other morning, though not by the usual path. The right road was closed for maintenance. The other road took me through the forest, still grey and cold…Continue Reading
Begin at the beginning was the Mad Hatter’s advice. And willingly or not, fairy tales begin with fairies. Sort of. Not really. But fairy tales, at the very least, began in folktales, and otherness and…Continue Reading
