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.

The library

2,535 myth & legend

Top-of-the-World Stories for Boys and Girls

Emilie Poulsson · myth

Tord of Hafsborough, and Other Ballads

George Borrow · poetry

Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations

John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour · myth

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series

William Bottrell · myth

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1

John Roby · myth

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

John Roby · myth

Traditions of the Arikara

George A. Dorsey · myth

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1

James Athearn Jones · myth

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

James Athearn Jones · myth

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3

James Athearn Jones · myth

Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore

Fay-Cooper Cole · myth

Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore

Charles Hardwick · myth

Trails Through Western Woods

Helen Fitzgerald Sanders · myth

The story in one page

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

A king forgets his wife, a cloud delivers a letter, and a solar dynasty conquers heaven across eight Sanskrit classics.

Kālidāsa · collection

Transylvanian Superstitions

E. Gerard · myth

Treasury of American Indian Tales

Theodore Whitson Ressler · collection

True Ghost Stories

Hereward Carrington · myth

True Irish Ghost Stories

St. John D. Seymour · collection

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds

Turkish fairy tales and folk tales

Ignácz Kúnos · myth

Tuscan folk-lore and sketches, together with some other papers

Isabella Mary Anderton · myth

The story in one page

Twenty-Two Goblins

A king must carry a talkative goblin across a cemetery without speaking, or risk his head literally exploding.

Arthur W. Ryder · myth

Twenty-Two Goblins. Translated from the Sanskrit

Arthur W. Ryder · myth

Howard Pyle · short story

Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen; II. The Fall of Troy

Two plays for dancers

W. B. Yeats · play

Ulf Van Yern, and Other Ballads

George Borrow · poetry

Stephen Lucius Gwynn · myth

Ulster Folklore

Elizabeth F.R.A.I. Andrews · myth

Ulysses of Ithaca

Karl Friedrich Becker · myth

Uncle Joe's Stories

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne · short story

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit

Joel Chandler Harris · short story

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris · myth

Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose

Howard Roger Garis · novel

Under King Constantine

Katrina Trask · myth

The story in one page

A water spirit marries a knight to gain an immortal soul, only to find that human love is terrifyingly fragile.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué · novel

Clara de Chatelain · myth

Uther and Igraine

Warwick Deeping · novel

Uttara, the Legend of the Turquoise

Carlo de Fornaro · myth

Valentine and Orson: A Romantic Melo-Drame

Thomas Dibdin · play

Vampires and Vampirism

Dudley Wright · myth

Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell

J. Storer Clouston · novel

Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare · poetry

Vice in its Proper Shape

Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali; songs of the love of Rādhā and Krishna

Vidyāpati Thākura · poetry

Jennie Hall · myth

Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry

Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth

Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth