The Fairy Tale Magazine

16/12/2025

Each time a troll bursts into pieces from the sun, his splinters scatter, landing in the eyes of people who look at the world askew 👀

📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls

15/12/2025

Celebrate the end of an era with our favorite Fairy Godmother’s FINAL Cinderella’s Hearth Post!

Thank you, Kate, for sharing your stories with us, and we can’t wait to see what you have planned for next year! 💖

For many years, I wrote about home keeping and gardening for a small weekly paper, and I enjoyed it. So I decided to bring some of that experience to The Fairy Tale Magazine through Cinderella’s Hearth. It’s been great fun doing it, but I’ve always prided myself on knowing when to move on. I s...

13/12/2025

Have you seen this beauty? Fairylore, by Drs Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman is coming out February 10th, 2026. The illustrations look fabulous and we're sure the book will be wonderful! , The pre-orders page - in case you have to have it: https://carterhaughschool.lpages.co/fairylore-preorders/

12/12/2025

Love mermaid stories? Cinderella? Watch Kelly Jarvis and Kell Woods talk about writing, researching, and inspiration for writing fairy tales with historical perspectives while still honoring more modern sensibilities on Fairy Tale Voices.
https://youtu.be/jsfbPJliuwk

11/12/2025

The first of 13 Yule Lads arrives tonight! ❄️🧌

The Yule Lads are sons of Gryla, the troll-like monster of Icelandic lore, and though legends say the lads are mischievous, contemporary Icelanders leave shoes on their windowsills, hoping the lads will fill them with treats 🍬🍭

11/12/2025

Enchant your holiday season with Amy Trent’s new novella on sale today! ❄️💖

Are you ready for some yuletide magic? Let Amy Trent’s novella The Princess and the Shoemaker warm you up this holiday season. Trent returns to the fairy tale kingdom of her Enchantment Retold series to share the story of Cornelius, a veteran soldier who has returned from war to work in his parent...

10/12/2025

Travel to the black forests of Bavaria and the streets of Munich as you learn the origin story of the famous nutcracker in Gregory Maguire’s novel Hiddensee.

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

09/12/2025

When trolls stare into the sun, they turn to stone. Many mountains and heaps of rubble were once creatures of darkness frozen by sunlight ⛰️☀️

📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls

Have you read our troll issue yet? ❤️🧌 You can find it here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-troll-issue-is-here

08/12/2025

Want to spend the holiday season in Ireland? Pick up a copy of Sharon Lynn Fisher’s The Absinthe Earl 💚

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

05/12/2025

Krampusnacht is the perfect night to curl up with Sharon Lynn Fisher’s Grimm Curiosities, a cozy holiday romance set in Victorian York with a touch of dark Yule magic 🖤✨

You can find it along with other great winter reads at our winter book roundup! L1nks in c@mm3nts!