An excerpt from The Rules of Magic
By Alice Hoffman
Illustration by Charles Vess
Article from the Autumn Issue #40 - Subscribe or Buy Issue
The most glorious hour in Manhattan was when twilight...
Signs You May Be Moonstruck
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
Moonflowers are your favorite bloom.
When you see a painting of a moon-gazing hare, you whisper, “Me too.”
You...
Brokenhearted: A fairy tale by Alice Hoffman
Short Story from Issue #35 Summer 2016
This is the way she knew he was gone: The door was open. His boots were missing. The...
Gothic Fairy Tales
Feature Image:
Illustration by Joseph Urban and H. Lefler for Märchen-Kalendar (1905)
A young girl lies in a glass coffin, alone in the woods, her black...
Dressed to Thrill
Should you encounter Terry Dresbach at Thru the Stones in late November, billed as “the first and largest Outlander convention in the Central United States,”...
My Arabian Superheroin
Every time my writing gets stuck, I ask myself, “How would Scheherazade get out of this?” Of course, she would know what to do. That’s...
Fairy Gifts
Have you noticed that fairy tales aren’t really about fairies? J.R.R. Tolkien points this out in his essay “On Fairy-Stories.” Fairy tales, he says,...
The Troubadour’s Guide to Modern Courtly Love
Article from the Medieval Issue #41
Print // Digital
Ah, young courtly love, the all-consuming, not-quite platonic, and entirely effusive adoration of a medieval knight for his liege’s wife. The...
Signs You May Be A Wood Nymph
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
• If you go longer than a week without visiting the woods, you start to fade and pine, whether it’s...
Professor Tolkien and the Faries
J.R.R. Tolkien believed in fairies. At least, he as though they were real in his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” first given as the Andrew Lang...