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folklore
Telling Our Stories: When Mexican Folklore and Oral Tradition Meet Sci-Fi
Under the Skin: Shape-Changing in Mexican Folklore
Chicken Feet and Fiery Skulls: Tales of the Russian Witch Baba Yaga
Five Fantasy Stories Inspired by Mesoamerican History and Folklore
Read an Excerpt From Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun
Fantasy, Historical || To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything...
Read an Excerpt From Elizabeth Lim’s Six Crimson Cranes
5 SFF Books Based on Real-World Folklore
S. L. Huang’s New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You’ve Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws
Read an Excerpt From A Curse of Roses
The Evolution of The Ballad of Mulan
The Wild Magic of Emily Tesh’s Drowned Country
Read an Excerpt From Andrea Hairston’s Master of Poisons
Epic Fantasy, Fairy Tales and Folklore || There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.