Books: What to Know

Myths That Still Shape Movies

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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2,535 myth & legend

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman

Charles Morris · myth

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese

Charles Morris · myth

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 13 (of 15), King Arthur (1)

Charles Morris · myth

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2)

Charles Morris · myth

Historical Parallels, vol. 1 (of 3)

Arthur Thomas Malkin · myth

Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands

Alexander Mackenzie · myth

History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)

H. B. Walters · myth

History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)

H. B. Walters · myth

History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2)

S. A. Dunham · myth

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)

G. Maspero · myth

History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)

George Grote · myth

History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12)

George Grote · myth

History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)

active 796 Nennius · myth

Hiwa: A Tale of Ancient Hawaii

Edmund P. Dole · novel

Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 2 of 9. England, early history

Raphael -1580? Holinshed · myth

Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 3 of 9. England, early history

Raphael -1580? Holinshed · myth

Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 4 of 9. England, early history

Raphael -1580? Holinshed · myth

Homer and His Age

Andrew Lang · myth

Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey

W. Lucas Collins · myth

Homer's Odyssey

Denton Jaques Snider · myth

Catharine Shaw · myth

Houlihan's Equation

Walter J. Sheldon · short story

Household Gods: A Comedy

Aleister Crowley · play

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

Jacob Grimm · myth

Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol

Rachel Harriette Busk · myth

The story in one page

Household Tales by Brothers Grimm

Step-mothers, spinning wheels, and the constant threat of being eaten by someone you just met.

Jacob Grimm · collection

How joy was found

Isobel Wylie Hutchison · play

How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail

Albert Bigelow Paine · novel

How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings

Marianne L. B. Ker · novel

How The Raven Died

Alfred Henry Lewis · myth

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Howard Pyle · novel

Frank Hamel · myth

Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough · myth

Humours of Irish Life

Charles L. Graves · myth

H. D. · poetry

The story in one page

Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

A man searches for his lost beloved in a dreamscape of ancient ruins, architecture, and obsession.

Francesco -1527 Colonna · novel

Hypolympia; Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy

Edmund Gosse · play

Icelandic Fairy Tales

Angus W. Mrs. Hall · short story

Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary

Henry Sweet · myth

Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson · poetry

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria

Elphinstone Dayrell · myth

Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages

James Owen Dorsey · myth

William H. Holcombe · novel

In colonial days

Nathaniel Hawthorne · short story

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn · myth

In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children

Amy Steedman · myth

In Great Waters: Four Stories

Thomas A. Janvier · short story

In Indian Tents

Abby Langdon Alger · myth