The Fairy Tale Magazine

01/11/2025

The Troll Issue is here! We’re thrilled to share this gorgeous PDF of lore, tales and poems. From ancient myth to modern-day imaginings, you can learn more about trolls here! Download the PDF today, donate $7 for this issue, and choose your own troll adventure.🧌🧌🧌 https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-troll-issue-is-here

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween, party people! We're giving out virtual candy to everyone who stops by The Fairy Tale Magazine today. Comment for a virtual treat!

31/10/2025

Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things begins “on a summer day ripe with dreams and mischief,” but it is the perfect read for Halloween! 💜🌙

Find our review here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/review-by-kelly-jarvis-spells-strings-and-forgotten-things-by-breanne-randall

Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things begins “on a summer day ripe with dreams and mischief,” introducing readers to a trio of magical sisters, Thalia, Eurydice, and Calliope, who have been abandoned by their mother. Ten-year-old Calliope finds a Grimoire that whispers of forbidden magic, and by...

30/10/2025

Scare yourself silly with Leanne Pearson’s collections of haunted tales! 🖤🥀

Find more frightening reads on our Autumn Book Roundup here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/autumn-book-roundup

30/10/2025

Legend says Iceland’s Hvítserkur Sea Stack is a troll who was petrified by the rising sun while traveling across the bay to break the bells of a monastery to pieces ❤️🧌

28/10/2025

Editor in Chief Kristen Baum DeBeasi here, sharing one of my favorite fall rituals: decorating the mantel! What's one thing you do every autumn?

28/10/2025

Troll children sleep all day and cry all night, so troll-hags often exchange them for well-behaved human children! 🧌

🎨 and 📖 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls

27/10/2025

Celebrate Halloween week with a Gothic retelling of Beauty and the Beast! ❤️ You’ll love “Heart’s Blood” by Juliet Marillier!

Find more great reads in our Autumn Book Roundup here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/autumn-book-roundup

24/10/2025

Ohhhhh, you know you want to!! Come on. Jump in! Gryla won't cook you. Not... really. 🧌🧌🧌 Seriously, though. The Troll Issue is coming November 1st and we're sure you'll want to gobble it right up. We know you've been waiting... and you might even be getting hungry. 😋

This is Gríla at the at Keflavik Airport

24/10/2025

This is the perfect weekend to enjoy Katherine Arden’s haunting novell! ❤️🎻 🎶

Find more chilling autumn reads at our Autumn Book Roundup up here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/autumn-book-roundup

23/10/2025

Look who's getting excited for The Troll Issue! They found an early edition and couldn't stop fighting over it... until it fell into the lake! Now they're trying to rescue it. I hope your issue finds its way to you digital and dry. It arrives November 1st! And it's okay to get your own copy. You don't need to share if you don't want to.

🎨Artwork by Erik Werenskiold, Folgesvennen, 1886

23/10/2025

According to Icelandic legend, the Reynisdrangar Sea Stacks are the solid remains of three trolls who were petrified by the rising sun as they dragged a ship to shore 🌊🧌☀️