Pan's Labyrinth is a cinematic fairy tale about a nightmare, an unflinching look at the horrors of fascist Spain as refracted through a childlike prism of magic and wonder. Full of monsters, fauns, ...

What do fairy tales, botany, Jungian psychology, musicals, and New York City all have in common? Seemingly nothing, but if you allow yourself to go just a little bit insane, you’ll find they all can ...

Naomi Novik's book, "Spinning Silver," is a fairy tale for adults with lots to recommend. The tale starts as Miryem watches her family starve and sees her mother failing to recover from illness. Her ...

WASHINGTON — Guillermo del Toro was asked to direct “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” but he turned it down because, as a lapsed Catholic, he couldn’t see himself ...

Research shows fairy tales are vehicles that help children and adults better understand their world. Kyra Miles of Minnesota Public Radio reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Milana Anderson's new book got me thinking unexpectedly about how fairy tales not only can help readers ​learn about animal ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

The Fisherman and His Wife (1882) by Alexander Zick (1845–1907) from Grimms' Fairy Tales, published by Gebruder Reichenbach Source: Gebruder Reichenbach/Public Domain Fairy tales have enchanted us for ...