The Best Dutch Fairy Tales: The Most Beautiful & Haunting Folklore from the Netherlands
By Anna Volkova
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By Anna Volkova
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Discover the dark, breathtaking side of Dutch folklore that Hans Christian Andersen never dared to tell.
The Best Dutch Fairy Tales gathers 16 haunting original retellings inspired by the windmills, dikes, tulips, and restless North Sea of the Netherlands. These are not the cheerful stories of clogs and windmills you heard as a child. These are the tales the sea whispers when the fog rolls in:
- A boy who plugs a leaking dike with his still-beating heart
- A black tulip that eats ambition and s...


