This book explores monsters through the ages and throughout the world. With a brilliant set of bizarre and fantastical illustrations, Monsters provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of fearsome beasts from every age and culture. Christopher...

Joseph Campbell

Explains how to identify the many species of demons, where to find them, and the traditional ways of appeasing or dispelling them

A collection of Greek and Roman myths arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, the Trojan war, and a brief section on Norse mythology

Vampires And Vampirism

A collection of Greek and Roman myths arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, the Trojan war, and a brief section on Norse mythology

The Greatness of Saturn

Celtic Mythology

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

In these expertly collected essays, lectures, and discussions, famed mythologist Joseph Campbell illuminates Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretations — with the conversational warmth and accessible scholarship that he...

Retells thirty-two Scandinavian myths that have intrigued countless generations with stories of gods, giants, dwarfs, and monsters involved in the creation, development, and ultimate destruction of nine mortal and divine worlds

Discusses symbolism in folklore, art, and literature

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Werewolf in Lore and Legend

Explores the symbolic meanings of animals in Native American legends

From Demons To Dracula

Santeria

The Study of American Folklore

Identifies key gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, themes, and symbols from the mythologies of the world

Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.

Collects legends and folk tales culled from the endangered indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests, linking them to their larger histories and traditions while offering the author's perspectives from an anthropological viewpoint.

Sumerian Mythology

Teutonic Mythology

Mythic Voices

Offers more than fifty selections--including tribal myths, animal folklore, and tales of the supernatural--representing the oral traditions of tribes from Nova Scotia to California

In this new resource, Harvey provides an in-depth look at the fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien in his many books (such as 'The Hobbit,' The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and 'The Silmarillion').

Great Norse, Celtic and Teutonic Legends

A new trade paperback edition of the classic collection, first published in 1934, offers retellings of ancient Greek myths, bringing to life the exploits and adventures of the gods and heroes, in stories about the Trojan Horse, Theseus's epic battle...

The Evil Eye

Dragons And Dragon Lore

Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines

Teutonic Mythology

Cuckoo For Kokopelli

Alas, Poor Ghost!

Based on the oldest extant version of Confucius's most influential text, this translation of the Analects serves as an authentic introduction to Confucian thought.

Identifies gods, goddesses, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fauns, satyrs, centaurs, and heroes, as well as legendary places, such as Olympus

An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love as revealed by a collection of original fairy tales for adults captures the value of stories and fables in culture as tools of healing and illumination as well as the...

An alphabetical reference to urban legends includes descriptions of hundreds of legends and their variations, discussing the relationship between urban legends and popular culture while considering legend themes and scholarly approaches to the genre....

Decoys and Disruptions

Pueblo Stories And Storytellers

Greek Gods, Human Lives

Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars

A multicultural collection of sixty-four utopian folktales explores a theme of courage in the face of fear, from a Japanese piece about an elderly woman who tricks a tengu monster to the story of a bluebird that uses the Chinook wind to teach her...

Teutonic Mythology