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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.

The Three Spinning Women

Posted on 15 March, 201316 March, 2013

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

An Unexpected Hero

Posted on 1 December, 20121 December, 2012

Editor’s Note: Unsettling Wonder is pleased to welcome our newest editorial assistant, Cayt Addison. A graduate student in literature and an enthusiast for the fantastic, Cayt will be masterminding our social media presence—for which, keep…Continue Reading