Perilous Enchantment: The True History of Faeries

A compendium of fairies and fairy lore through the centuries, told through a magical year in search of the fae.

Fairy stories and fae lore are ancient—yet fairy stories continue to transform and enthrall our imaginations generation after generation. From Tolkien’s elves to Sarah J. Maas’s high fae, storytellers have reinterpreted the same set of traditions and texts through the centuries.

Perilous Enchantment presents a definitive new cultural history of the fairy, from ancient times to now,...