Category Archives: fairy tales
Silverweed: a supernatural fairy tale
Silverweed has had a make-over! Revisions, a new cover, & a paperback bonus: 8 fairy tale inspired supernatural short stories! Available only on Amazon. Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited! In this Little-Red-Riding-Hood-inspired paranormal fairy tale, the roles of prey and predator are blurred. Seventeen-year-old Aiden Young travels to Indiana for his aunt’s funeral, where his …
Midsummer Nights Dream + Witches = Dream Spell Poem
Dream Spell by Dorlana Vann (Inspired by Midsummer Nights Dream) She never knew where she’d go when she closed her eyes Her deep dreams bewitched, and her sleeping soul stolen Always to follow her love through tomorrow’s skies Cursed by her own craft, ties deliberately woven. “I place this herb where I have …
Fairy Tale Motifs Revisited
Recently, I was looking up the classic telling (1756) of “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and one of the things that I found interesting was that it was classified as type 425C, which is Search for a lost husband in Aarne-Thompson – Types of the Folk Tale. It reminded me of an article I had written …
