The Fairy Tale Magazine

28/11/2025

Why shop on Black Friday when you can stay home and spin some silver with Naomi Novik? 💖

Find more winter reads at our Winter Book Roundup here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/winter-book-roundup

27/11/2025

Today, we are thankful for all our Fairy Godparents and thrilled to celebrate Lynden Wade’s incredible new collection The Tapestry Unravels! 🪡 🧵

In the Author’s Preface to The Tapestry Unravels, Lynden Wade invites readers into her world of magic, legend, and fairy tales written for adults, and each of the twelve stories that follow unfurl with enchantment, reweaving old narratives into new. The first three stories, A Patchwork of Puddles,...

26/11/2025

Kelly Jarvis was inspired by her research into the Prose Edda! It contains the first mention of trolls in Scandinavian literature. A poet meets a fierce female troll -- that sounds like a recipe for a great poem! "What is a troll but that?" Read Kelly's poem "Bridge Troll" Download the beautiful PDF issue to immerse yourself in the world of troll lore, stories and poems: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-troll-issue-is-here

🎨 art by John Bauer

26/11/2025

Spend the holiday weekend with The Sisters of the Winter Wood, and find more fairy-tale inspired reads in our Winter Book Roundup here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/winter-book-roundup 🖤💛

25/11/2025

Children of hulder-maidens are known to be great storytellers. Even the trolls come out of the forest to listen to their tales ❤️🧌

📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls

24/11/2025

Kelly Jarvis quotes from Yeats about cycles in folklore repeating over time like a spiral. Kelly's poem acknowledges that trolls have fallen from favor since the old times but we're hoping The Troll Issue helps to reframe trolls. We're honoring their stories and their lore in The Fairy Tale Magazine. Download the beautiful PDF issue to immerse yourself in the world of troll lore, stories and poems: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-troll-issue-is-here

🎨 art by John Bauer

24/11/2025

Travel to the Alaskan wilderness in Eowyn Ivey’s folklore-inspired novel The Snow Child ❄️⛄️🩵

Find more snowy reads in our Winter Book Roundup in the comments!

23/11/2025

Steve "Aelfcyning" Aultman relates where he was when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. He tells the story of the Bay Bridge, how it was affected by the earthquake, and how the blacksmithing community came together to create a troll to protect the new bridge. Read more! Download the beautiful PDF issue to immerse yourself in the world of troll lore, stories and poems: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-troll-issue-is-here

21/11/2025

Lissa Sloan drew inspiration from East of the Sun, West of the Moon as found in Asbjørnsen and Moe for her incredible poem "Troll Bride | True Bride: On Removing Three Drops of Wax from a Fine Linen Shirt." It's not just a poem to read. It's a poem to experience! Download the beautiful PDF issue to immerse yourself in the world of troll lore, stories and poems: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-troll-issue-is-here

🎨 art: John Bauer

21/11/2025

Settle in for the weekend with a beautiful retelling of The Snow Queen set in a Gothic museum ❄️

Find more snowy reads in our Winter Book Roundup in the comments ❄️

20/11/2025

In recent years, Gryla has been associated with the Christmas season in Iceland. She is known to kidnap naughty children and cook them into a stew! We hope you’re all on your best behavior this year! ❤️🧌

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19/11/2025

“Wishes... burn your tongue the moment they're spoken, and you can never take them back” (The Ice Queen)

Warm up with Alice Hoffman’s tale of ice and fire, and find more magical winter reads in our Winter Book Roundup in the comments! 🧊🔥