The Coming of the Fairies
10 best books like The Coming of the Fairies (Arthur Conan Doyle): The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, Boudicca: The Warrior Queen, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, The Science of Fairy Tales: an Enquiry Into Fairy Mythology, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People, The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, The Dark of the Woods, Digital Magic
| Author | W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
| ISBN | 1564147088 |
When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.
Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...
Boudicca: The Warrior Queen
'She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips. She wore a twisted torc and a tunic of many colours ... She carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.' Dio Cassius In AD 61 Roman governor Suetonius Paullinus, a veteran of mountain warfare in Africa, led a crushing defeat by the...
| Author | Carole G. Silver |
| ISBN | 0195121996 |
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
| Author | Edwin Sidney Hartland |
Book Description:
"A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being.
The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore...
| Author | Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN | 0814766838 |
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.
The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0415286018 |
Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds. to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author. Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies. and in this...
| Author | Janet Bord |
| ISBN | 0440226120 |
Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog"...an impossibly tiny shoe found in Ireland...fairy dust discovered on Mount Shasta, California...the wondrous sighting of a winged woman inside a rose.
These and many more astounding accounts offer tangible evidence...
| Author | Robert Kirk |
| ISBN | 1590171772 |
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology." — Times Literary Supplement
In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0760782776 |
Twenty-one award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers have transformed traditional fairy tales and legendsincluding Snow White, Cinderella, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, and many moreinto stories that are completely original, yet still...
| Author | Philippa Ballantine |
| ISBN | 1896944884 |
The Fey are gone...and with it, magic. At least, that is how things seem with the demise of the Dark Goddess and The Bard.
"Lord what fools these mortals be."
Penheram is a quaint, sleepy English village where people escape the 21st century. Hiding from the world of laptop computers,...
| Author | John Cohen |
| ISBN | 0333455029 |
I have a story which I think really shows the essential Lenny Bruce although it's not in this, or any other book.
I was editing one of Jay Landesman's many manuscripts at the time and we were talking about his St Louis nightclub, the Crystal Palace and how Barbra Streisand got discovered. Jay told...
| Author | Gay Daly |
| ISBN | 0899194508 |
Strange, awkward title, although it is pretty literal. This is pretty repetitive. After about the 3rd Pre-Raphaelite, I got the picture that they all had strange relationships with women. I think this was most interesting as a portrait of Victorian married life among the bohemian set. Man, those guys...
| Author | Jacques F. Vallée |
| ISBN | 1585428205 |
One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena.
In the past century, individuals, newspapers,...
The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne
| Author | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| ISBN | 1853264431 |
I think there is a reason why I never read more Swinburne poetry than I did while in college and getting my Master’s. It’s not the poetry is bad. It isn’t, but if you compare it to the Brownings, to Donne, to Marlowe, to Chaucer, and so on, it doesn’t quite match them.
Well, most of his poetry...
The Isles of the Many Gods: An A-Z of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in Ancient Britain During the First Millenium Ce Through to the Middle
| Author | David Rankine |
| ISBN | 1905297106 |
THE ISLES OF THE MANY GODS: An A-Z of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses worshipped in Ancient Britain during the first Millenium CE through to the Middle Ages By David Rankine & Sorita D'Este The British Isles have long been seen as a place of mystery & magic. For many thousands of years successive...
The Heart of Faerie Oracle - Book & Tarot Cards
| Author | Brian Froud |
| ISBN | 0810988232 |
"Faerie is a tricky place. The answers we receive and the insights we may gain will not always be in a form that we are used to." - The Heart of Faerie Oracle
This book/oracle deck was a gift from a friend. I am a huge admirer of both Brian and Wendy Froud's work, so this was an obvious addition to my collection....
| Author | Mary Jo Putney |
| ISBN | 0821758179 |
From four of today's finest talents comes an enchanting collection of romantic tales. Set in glamorous Georgian and Regency England, these four stories are filled with myth and mystery, and illustrate the magical, sensual and humorous events that can occur when the worlds of mortals and faeries collide.
In...
The Liver Healing Diet: The MD's Nutritional Plan to Eliminate Toxins, Reverse Fatty Liver Disease and Promote Good Health
| Author | Michelle Lai |
| ISBN | 1612434444 |
THE FIRST BOOK TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A DETAILED PROGRAM FOR REVERSING LIVER DAMAGE THROUGH OPTIMAL NUTRITION
The only organ in your body that regenerates itself is the liver. And now, you can make it happen. With a complete program to rejuvenate your liver through optimal nutrition and routine exercise,...
| Author | S.C. Butler |
| ISBN | 0765314770 |
Reiffen, only twelve years old, is the true heir to the thrones of both Wayland and Banking. He and his friends Avender and Ferris live in a magical world of talking animals, dwarves, and shape-shifting bears but…he lives with the shame of knowing that no one will ever let him rule these kingdoms, that...
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
| Author | Régine Pernoud |
| ISBN | 0812812603 |
Using historical documents and translated by Regine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits? First published in the United States in 1966 by Stein and Day, this book reveals the historical...
Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879
| Author | Andrew Garcia |
| ISBN | 0893012505 |
The book was recommended to me by someone I met at the Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. The site commemorates a battle (actually ambush of the Nez Perce)between soldiers & volunteers and a Native American group led by, among others, Chief Joseph. The book is taken from the journal of a rather...
Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom
| Author | Glenys Livingstone |
| ISBN | 1544179650 |
.
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon
| Author | Lisa Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0812519515 |
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon is set in an imaginative recreation of Elizabethan London, a rich, intense city overflowing with life and action, a city of spies and booksellers, alchemists and playwrights, poets, witches, plague and salvation. A series of strange events links the lives of an ordinary...
