New Myth & Legend Books

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful -- she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' Collected by the German Grimm brot...

Each night when Stevie goes to bed he is swept off into a dream world that is exciting, unusual and always full of fun. Read and see what strange and funny sights he encounters when he closes his eyes.

"These surreal, disquieting but compelling fables gain from being narrated in crisp, simple language. This spellbinding collection is not for the faint-hearted, but it will haunt you for days afterwards." -South China Morning Post Indulge in the bizarre fantasy world of the Qing Dynasty through the ...

SILVER SHOES FROM OZ WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING FOR DONALD GARDNER. THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES AS HE JOINS WITH FBI AGENTS TO BATTLE A SINISTER SORCERER LURKING IN THE WOODS. More than a week has passed since sixth-grader Donald Gardner left Germany after facing an evil sorcerer in the woods. He's back in...

SILVER SHOES FROM OZ WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING FOR DONALD GARDNER. THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES AS HE JOINS WITH FBI AGENTS TO BATTLE A SINISTER SORCERER LURKING IN THE WOODS. More than a week has passed since sixth-grader Donald Gardner left Germany after facing an evil sorcerer in the woods. He's back in...

It's said love can change a person. Medusa wasn't always a monster... Medusa is ruled by duty, to her Titan father and the Goddess Athena. She's no room for the tenderness her warrior guard, Ariston, stirs. When Olympus frees her from service, her heart leads her into the arms of the guard she loves...

A Bridge to the Other Side is a collection of articles and traditional folk tales that deal with our feelings about and attitudes towards Death, both our own death and that of those nearest and dearest to us. A bridge between earth and heaven, this world and the next, features in the mythology of m...

Blackstone presents its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast version of the Snow White tale. Many burning questions about fairy-taledom may or may not be answered in this new pseudogothic audio drama.

Blackstone presents its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast version of the Snow White tale. Many burning questions about fairy-taledom may or may not be answered in this new pseudogothic audio drama.

'The mighty Airvata would stretch his trunks into water reservoirs, such up the water and then spray it into the clouds...' He was the mighty white elephant, who could weave clouds and create rain. He was Lord Indra's magnificent mount, who could make any demon quake in fear. First among all elephan...

The legend of Quetzalc atl is the enduring epic myth of Mesoamerica. The gods create the universe, but man must carefully tend to the harmony of the world. Without spiritual attention to harmony, chaos may reign, destroying the universe and civilization.The ancient Mexicans, like other peoples throu...

Chris Adrian's magical third novel is a mesmerizing reworking of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." On Midsummer's Eve 2008, three brokenhearted people become lost in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happ...

Styled as Oriental tales, these parables are unexpected, exciting, colorful, and tremendously readable. Vlas Doroshevich could not stand tyranny in any form and in his tales he availed himself of complete freedom to mock, to despise, and to accuse the authorities for their wickedness, hypocrisy, and...

From the author of "The Lily Pond" comes "The Reasonable Ogre," a collection of fully-illustrated fables about family, death, relationships, life, madness, and, of course, ogres. These are stories of real-life, negotiated magic--and prove once more that Mike Barnes is a wizard of the human heart. Wi...

Wildly acclaimed in Canada, this book marks the debut of a remarkable young writer first published by McSweeney's when she was twenty-three and living at home with her dad and brother. "The Middle Stories" is a strikingly original collection of stories, fables, and short brutalities that are alterna...

With this book of fairy tales, beautifully illustrated by artist Kevin Tong, readers will be reacquainted with the stories and characters they know and love. Running through the forest with Little Red Cap, attending the ball with Cinderella and eating an apple with Snow White. From witches to fairie...

Eli Monpress is vain. He's cocky. And he's a thief. But he's a thief who has just seen his bounty topped and he's not happy about it. The bounty topper, as it turns out, is his best friend, bodyguard, and master swordsman, Josef. Who has been keeping secrets from Eli. Apparently, he's the only princ...

Join the Monkey King on his fantastic travels in this exciting version of the traditional Chinese folktale "Journey to the West." This legend has delighted countless generations, and this lovely retelling is a wonderful introduction for a new generation of readers.

Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters--among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writing...

Blackstone presents its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast version of the Snow White tale. Many burning questions about fairy-taledom may or may not be answered in this new pseudogothic audio drama.

Suddenly, fairy tales are everywhere. Up to ten major feature films have been made or are in production using as a basis traditional fairy tales that we think we are all familiar with. But are we? This collection reprints or retranslates the earliest versions of eight of those tales, and shows how t...

With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast expos of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum...

What's the Monster Stick? It's Paul's nine-foot, surf casting rod full of six miles of brand new 50-pound test Stren Carp cord with 20 pound, custom made, stainless steel, slip-sliding sinkers. The adventures Paul finds himself in from the day the Monster Stick comes into his life rival those of Pau...