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Dread of the unknown fills us with both unease and curiosity. We laugh, nervously, at tales of haunted houses and phantoms, yet something looms. There is a shadow behind life that creeps through its walls and knocks, and we know it is a fear of the unknown that makes each heart beat faster. Life is uncanny. We are equally attracted to and repulsed by what scares us. The unknown will persist thanks to literature, and that is where the ghosts wi...

Tale-weavers of old have long known the mythological alchemy that fashions a gripping adventure tale. Quests force heroes out into the world where they encounter ancient dangers and temptations of the heart. Treasures give these heroes purpose while forcing us as readers to question what is worth valuing. Fantastical beasts and adversaries lure imaginations from the depths of oblivion. This collection exhibits thirty adventure tales that have ...

Andrew Lang, critical writer and collector of fairy tales, had gathered one of the most impressive collections of stories into a series of twelve fairy books. With tales spanning many cultures and countries, Andrew Lang's Fairy Books exhibited some of the strangest yet most mesmerizing tales chronicled throughout the 19th century. This collection highlights some of the more obscure or lesser known fairy tales gathered by Andrew Lang. Once agai...