Digital Materials

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Folk and Fairy Tales: A Guide to Print Resources (Univ. of Illinois Library)

Folkilinks: Folk and Fairy Tale Sites (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

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Peer-Reviewed Journals

Fairy Tale Review

Marvels and Tales


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Myths and Legends: Fairy Tales

On Being feat. Maria Tatar: “The Great Cauldron of Story: Why Fairy Tales Are for Adults Again”

Royal Academy of the Arts: “A. S. Byatt and Lawrence Norfolk discuss the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm”

Singing Bones: The Secret History of Fairy Tales


Fairy Tales in the News

Recent NPR articles related to fairy tales

“‘Here is a story! Story it is’: How Fairy Tales Are Told in Other Tongues” (The Guardian, Apr. 2019)

“Something Is Wrong in this House: How Bluebeard Became the Definitive Fairy Tale of Our Era” (Jezebel, Oct. 2018)

“AI Learned to Mimic Brothers Grimm Fairytales–Including Their Sexist Stereotypes” (Quartz, Apr. 2018)

“The Original Little Mermaid” (The Paris Review, Mar. 2018)

“‘Beauty and the Beast’ Comes from a Long Line of Stories about Women Hooking Up with Animals” (Jezebel, Mar. 2017)

“Why Female Cannibals Frighten & Fascinate” (The Atlantic, Mar. 2017)

“The Dark Morality of Fairy-Tale Animal Brides” (The Atlantic, Mar. 2017)

“Tale as Old as Time: The Dark Appeal of ‘Beauty and the Beast'” (NPR, Mar. 2017)

BBC’s Fairy Tales Concert: Hansel and Gretel (Jan. 2017)

“The Fairy Tales that Predate Christianity” (The Atlantic, Jan. 2016)

“Why We Need Fairy Tales: Jeanette Winterson on Oscar Wilde” (The Guardian, Oct. 2013)

“Fairy Tales Started Dark, Got Cute, and Are Now Getting Dark Again” (The Atlantic, May 2012)

Five Hundred New Fairytales Found in Germany (The Guardian, Mar. 2012)

“Cinderfellas: The Long-Lost Fairy Tales” (The New Yorker, Mar. 2012)



Fairy Tale Themes in the Real World

“How Wealth in Childhood Shapes Personality Later in Life” (The Atlantic, Apr. 2015)


Fairy Tales and Satire

“Mrs. Potts Confronts the Enchantress Who Cursed Her and the Other Servants” (McSweeney’s, Mar. 2017)

“Horrifying Children’s Stories Made Comforting and Anodyne: Bluebeard” (The Toast, Mar. 2016)

“Russian Witch Baba Yaga’s Guide to Feminism” (Ravishly, Mar. 2015)

“Children’s Stories Made Horrific: The Frog Prince” (The Toast, Mar. 2015)

“Fairy Tales Are Women’s Tales” (The Toast, May 2014)

“AP History Lesson in the Less Magic Kingdom: ‘Snow White the False'” (The Toast, May 2014)

“AP History Lessons in the Less Magic Kingdom: ‘The Mermaid’s War'” (The Toast, Apr. 2014)

“Grimm’s Terms and Conditions for Your Three Wishes” (McSweeney’s, Apr. 2014)

“Hunger is the Beginning of Every Folk Tale” (The Toast, Mar. 2014)

“Grimm Fairy Tales Made Decidedly More Grim” (McSweeney’s, Aug. 2007)

“Alternative Fairy-Tale Endings to Take the Place of ‘And They Lived Happily Ever After'” (McSweeney’s, July 2007)