Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella & Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
10 best books like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella & Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Angela Carter): The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism, The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories, Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon, The Drug and Other Stories, The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre, White Stains - Anaïs Nin & Friends (Delectus Classics of Erotic Literature)
The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
| Author | Franz Xaver von Schönwerth |
| ISBN | 0143107429 |
A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English.
With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands,...
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0143107380 |
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural
Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...
| Author | Deborah Lutz |
| ISBN | 0393068323 |
A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.
At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 0192834800 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0141442239 |
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 0141196017 |
M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spirits, but by terrifying, palpable forces of evil. In these four stories figures appear in paintings, demonic voices are heard, books awaken ancient horrors - and ordinary objects and situations are transformed...
Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon
| Author | Elizabeth Russell Miller |
| ISBN | 1605980528 |
When Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897, the ghoulish tale shocked, captivated, offended and thrilled readers. How Stoker became the creator of the mysterious, seductive count from a castle (and coffin) in Transylvania was a story in and of itself. Over the past century, Dracula has never...
| Author | Aleister Crowley |
| ISBN | 1840226382 |
With an Introduction by William Breeze and a Foreword by David Tibet. This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875 1947).
Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and...
The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 0141038810 |
A little boy is lost in the wilderness with nothing but his wooden toy knife to protect him, when he comes across a ghastly spectacle of unspeakable terror. Two travellers caught in a storm one night take shelter in a deserted plantation house and discover a room filled with the dead. An old man suspected...
White Stains - Anaïs Nin & Friends (Delectus Classics of Erotic Literature)
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| ISBN | 1897767110 |
This collection of six sensual, yet explicit short stories is thought to have been written for an Oklahoma oil millionaire, Roy M. Johnson. Anais Nin is said to have paid a dollar per page to produce typescripts of explicit erotica for his own private amusement. In 'Alice' a couple spying on another couple...
Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0814332676 |
Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent. Brothers and Beasts offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
| Author | Vera Southgate |
| ISBN | 0721402224 |
This is a tale of three Billy Goats Gruff who want to cross a bridge, but are threatened by a horrible and scary troll who lives beneath it. In the end they out smart the troll and get rid of him for good, which enables them to cross the bridge freely without fear of bumping into the nasty troll. This book is suitable...
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415976707 |
The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives...
| Author | Jean de La Fontaine |
| ISBN | 0199650721 |
La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His versions of stories such as The Hare and the Tortoise and The Wolf and the Lamb are witty and sophisticated, satirizing...
Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691127832 |
The tale of Bluebeard's Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has remained alive for adults, allowing it to...
When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0143126385 |
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated...
The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0140431063 |
One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel...
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
| Author | Chris Roberts |
| ISBN | 1592402178 |
Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? Baa Baa Black Sheep a bleat about taxation? What did Jack and Jill do on that hill? Who was Mary? And why was she contrary? This witty and ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of forty of the most innocuous- sounding nursery rhymes, uncovering a seething...
Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade
| Author | Marquis de Sade |
| ISBN | 0720612519 |
While waiting for "50 Shades of Gray" to come in at the library, I went on a little Sade kick! This just goes to show that by no means is society *more* perverse now. We've always been warped, now we simply have the means and lack of grace to kiss and tell to the masses. Great book! I actually like that it was completely...
First Love: A Gothic Tale
Josie S- has come with her mother Delia to live in her great-aunt Esther Burkhardt's house in upstate New York. Also living there is Josie's cousin, Jared, Jr., on leave from the Presbyterian seminary. Preoccupied with his studies, impeccably dressed in his starched white shirts, distant and mysterious,...
