August 22 is World Folklore Day, based on a letter from August 22, 1846 where the word “folklore” was used for the first time to describe oral stories that are passed down through generations. These ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the ethnographer Afanasyev published around 600 Russian folktales—the world’s largest academic collection of such texts. In Russia, these tales have long been considered ...

Drawing on folklore traditions from around the world, these thrilling and entertaining books put fresh spins on classic tales. By Kalyani Saxena Kalyani Saxena is a reporter and critic covering ...

The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time ...

High passes, hidden caves, and steep cliffs allowed mountain outlaws to ambush travelers, evade authorities, and launch raids ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

My novel, Small Fires, follows two sisters who are persecuted for the murder of their parents and flee to an unnamed island governed by a figure known only as the Warden. As the women’s harrowing past ...

The Balkans is one of the world’s richest regions for terrifying traditional tales, which has made it a fertile source of stories and characters for Turkish horror novelist Mehmet Berk Yaltirik.

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh-based columnist for the Washington Examiner. She is the author of "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics." DONEGAL, Pennsylvania—It is ...

Max Bowden received a bursary from the Folklore Society. Dead & Company, the latest and most enduring post-Grateful Dead project, is about to take to the stage for the second time at the Las Vegas ...