fairy tale Archives

Changeling, The

"A great fairy tale tells the truth.” Author: Victor Lavalle Apollo is determined to be the father he never had. He dotes on his son, Brian, carrying him everywhere, uploading hundreds of pictures to social media, boring well-meaning friends. It seems that life is perfect, but soon Apollo’s wife (and Brian’s mother), Emma, starts to act strange. She asks weird questions about the baby. She claims she is getting pictures of Apollo ignoring him – pictures that immediately disappear from her phone. She says that the baby isn’t there’s – isn’t even a baby – and that her real son is [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-09T15:26:49-07:00November 9th, 2025|Tags: book review, fairy tale, horror, read, reading|

Sorceress Comes to Call, A

"This was like... fear at first sight." Author: T. Kingfisher Cordelia is lonely and scared. In her mother’s house, she is forbidden to close doors. Her only friend and confidant is her mother’s beautiful white horse (Falada). The object of Cordelia’s every waking moment is to do everything in her power to keep her mother appeased so that she will not be made “obedient” again. You see, Cordelia’s mother, Evangeline, is a powerful and cunning sorceress, immoral and violent. Evangeline will do anything to gain wealth and riches. She will sell her own daughter to an elderly suitor. She will bewitch [...]

Frances Carden2025-06-30T15:06:18-07:00June 30th, 2025|Tags: A Sorceress Comes to Call, book review, dark fantasy, fairy tale, fantasy, horror, read, reading, T. Kingfisher|

Last Tale of the Flower Bride, The

The Door You Might Not Open, and You Did Author: Roshani Chokshi He has spent his life living in and studying dreams. Dreams of a missing brother, sucked into a wardrobe never to return. It was then, as a child, that he knew fairy tales and myths were real. And ever since then, he has followed them, studied them. Enter his future wife, Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada, a woman whose lush beauty and wealth are the stuff of legends. She too loves a good fairy tale, the more violent, the more unsettling, the more gothically beautiful, the better. The pair, with their secrets [...]

Frances Carden2023-05-29T13:12:54-07:00May 29th, 2023|Tags: book review, fairy, fairy tale, fey, horror, read, reading|