Scary Fairy Godmother

15/08/2024

My book is part of a fantasy prize pack draw. The prize is a starter library of fantasy books (hardcover and paperback) and an Amazon gift card. It doesn't cost anything to enter, and I'm pretty sure you get several free fantasy e-books just for entering (not mine, but some of the books on the list look like they could be good). So, enter here if it interests you and best of luck!

Cool fantasy adventures & a YA Fantasy prize pack & Amazon Gift card! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of ebooks. One lucky winner will receive a fabulous YA Fantasy prize pack. Once you've perused the fantasy ebooks, hunt for the prize icon and click to enter...

31/07/2024

New video, Fairy Justice. Don't get on the fairies' bad side. 😉

🗝 My fairy novel! :)Check out The Ghosts of Nothing: 📖 https://books2read.com/theghostsofnothingGet the Audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Ghosts-of...

31/07/2024

🎨Arthur Rackham Illustrations from The Tempest.

31/07/2024

Pinch him, pinch him, black and blue,
Saucy mortals must not view
What the queen of stars is doing.
Nor pry into our fairy wooing.
Pinch him blue--
And pinch him black--
Let him not lack
Sharp nails to pinch him blue and red,
Till sleep has rocked his addlehead.
For the trespass he hath done
Spots o'er all his flesh shall run.
Kiss Endymion, kiss his eyes.
Then to our midnight heidegyes.

- John Lyly

31/07/2024

The Tempest - We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on by Edmund Dulac

31/07/2024

Le Papillon Rouge: The Entomologist's Dream by Edmund Dulac

05/07/2024

This month's featured artist is Carissa Andrews and her book Secret Legacy, which has witchy/ghostly vibes. Check it out here and see if it interests you:

SOMETIMES, THE LEGACY YOU INHERIT IS THE ONE YOU WERE BORN TO CHANGE. Windhaven Academy isn't just another school, and Autumn Blackwood is about to discover why. Accepted under mysterious circumstances, Autumn finds herself in a place where the boundaries between the living and the dead blur, where....

05/07/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/fairylights/p/it-looked-human?r=18kwkg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

But it Wasn't ...

30/06/2024

New video on my channel now! Encounters with deceptively human-like fairies. Link in comments. ✨

30/06/2024

Art by Adrienne Segur

30/06/2024

Fairies by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1898

30/06/2024

What I am I must not show
What I am thou couldst not know
Something betwixt heaven and hell
Something that neither stood nor fell
Something that through thy wit or will
May work thee good—may work thee ill.
Neither substance quite, nor shadow,
Haunting lonely moor and meadow,
Dancing by the haunted spring,
Riding on the whirlwind's wing
Aping in fantastic fashion
Every change of human passion,
While o'er our frozen minds they pass,
Like shadows from the mirror'd glass.
Wayward, fickle, is our mood.
Hovering betwixt bad and good.
Happier than brief-dated man,
Living ten times o'er his span
Far less happy, for we have
Help nor hope beyond the grave!

~Walter Scott

22/06/2024

I just found out The Ghosts of Nothing has been awarded the Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion. Here's the official announcement from IndieBrag:

We are proud to announce that THE GHOSTS OF NOTHING by Cecily Walters has been honored with the B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group). It now joins the very select award-winning, reader-recommended books at indieBRAG.
🥹

31/05/2024

https://fairylights.substack.com/p/pixie-led

Abducted by Fairies (Almost)

31/05/2024

This month's featured artist is AJ Park and her novel The Ring Keeper:

Growing up in a peaceful village, Ana has kept a secret all her life. She possesses an enchanted ring, the legacy from a mother she never knew. When powerful demons attack the village, attempting to kill her and take the ring, keeping it hidden is no longer possible. Guarded by Zarek, a resourceful....

31/05/2024

New video on my channel now! Abducted by Fairies ... Almost.
Link in comments.

31/05/2024

The Will of the Wisp by Robert Anning Bell

31/05/2024

Wood Nymphs by Arthur Rackham

31/05/2024

Art by Alan Lee

31/05/2024

I must follow in their train
Down the crooked fairy-lane
Where the coney-rabbits long ago have gone,
And where silverly they sing
In a moving moonlit ring
All a-twinkle with the jewels they have on.
They are fading round the turn
Where the glow-worms palely burn
And the echo of their padding feet is dying!
O! it's knocking at my heart
Let me go! O let me start!
For the little magic hours are all a-flying.
O! the warmth! O! the hum! O! the colours in the dark!
O! the gauzy wings of golden honey-flies
O! the music of their feet—of their dancing goblin feet
O! the magic! O! the sorrow when it dies.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

12/05/2024

The Fairies of The Ghosts of Nothing:

Character Portraits

02/05/2024

New Fairy Lights entry:

The idea of fairies shapeshifting into animals is common in folklore. But more than that, fairies are often said to appear as strange human-animal hybrids, either like satyrs or fawns or as human-like beings that got something wrong (they appear with a tail or a talon or a pair of horns or animal ea...

02/05/2024

This month’s featured fairy artist is Lyndsey Hall and her fae fantasy novels. Check out The Fair Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy:

When Aria is dragged through the Veil into the Fair Realm by a handsome, silver-eyed boy and his band of fairy soldiers, she discovers she is the legendary Fair Queen, the subject of a prophecy that promises to bring an end to the centuries-long conflict between the Five Kingdoms. With terrifying cr...

30/04/2024

New video on my channel now! Scary encounters with fairy creatures. Link in comments.

30/04/2024

Edwin Landseer - Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream

30/04/2024

John Anster Fitzgerald (1819-1906) - The Fairy's Lake

30/04/2024

Henry Fuseli - Titania and Bottom

30/04/2024

From his cradle in the glamourie
They have stolen my wee brother,
Housed a changeling in his swaddlings
For to fret mine own poor mother.
Pules it in the candle-light
Wi' a cheek so lean and white,
Chinkling up its eyne so wee
Wailing shrill at her an' me.
It we'll neither rock nor tend
Till the Silent Silent send,
Lapping in their waesome arms
Him they stole with spells and charms,
Till they take this changeling creature
Back to its own fairy nature
Cry ! Cry! as long as may be,
Ye shall ne'er be woman's baby !

- Walter de la Mare

01/04/2024

New Fairy Lights entry coming in a little late (I shared more than I usually do on this one about what I've been thinking about creatively lately):

Pagans and the Fairies that Love them