Selkie
It’s not that I’m not comfortable
in my own skin. It’s that I can’t
ever be without it—it’s a harness
in a handbag, holding me to the...
An Interview with Signe Pike
Read an excerpt from The Lost Queen
Faerie Magazine: Many of our readers were fans of your first book, Faery Tale. Tell us about that...
Fairy Tales and Decadence
BY SARA CLETO AND BRITTANY WARMAN
Illustration: The Nightingale from Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1911), by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban
Despite their reputation for...
A Sentiment of Sunflowers
You are no doubt expecting me to expound on the romance of flowers in Victorian art, but I think I shall instead start with...
Turn Your Life Into A Real Life FaerieTale
It was a Saturday night and I was blaring from the speakers, candles flickered around the room, and everything that I ever wished for was...
The Sweetest Love
Once upon a time, in a land hidden deep within an enchanted forest where the trees grew almost as tall as mountains, there lived...
Mirror Masquerade
Photography by
THE WITCHING HOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
Model: Kassi Stein Gown: El Costurero Real
She was raised knowing what decadence was. It surrounded her in the form of ...
Once
Feature Image:
Princess Sabra, or The King’s Daughter (1865), by Edward Burne-Jones
Once there was a story
that lost its end.
It turned in tepid circles
grasping ideas &...
The Seal Wife
Illustration by Julia Jeffrey of Stonemaiden Art
Sometimes when we fight,
I want to slip on my seal skin
and disappear beneath the waves.
I warned you when...
Into The Night Woods …With Moths, Bats, Mushrooms, Fairies, and Other...
Spring has its freshness and promise, summer gets all that lush light, and winter brings cozy idle hours—but autumn is really the most creative...