From bedtime tales, to books and movies, to sharing personal experiences with friends, storytelling is a significant part of daily life. But this year’s 35th annual Storytelling Festival at the Ark in ...

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 ...

‘It seems that mankind is born with an avid appetite for details of other lives beside the one his own small span of corporeal existence grants to him,” the late folklorist Sybil Marshall writes by ...

Reading fairy tales can be essential to building the imagination of young readers. Folk tales, meanwhile, can help illuminate life lessons and teach children about traditions held by people all over ...

Once upon a time, people told fairy tales because—well, there were lots of reasons. Folklorists believe that some stories got their start as anecdotes that were spun over time into such good yarns ...

As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, families and friends start to gather around the warm glow of fireplaces. Winter is the time for many to be in fellowship with their people, and for ...

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.