Don't Let the Fairies Eat You

Within, you won’t find fairy tales meant for children at bedtime.  A witch’s brew gives one legless knight the chance to grow back his lost limbs, but they aren’t what he expects. The secret to getting anything from anyone passes to a destitute woman before her journey through a nightmarish wilderness. Two makers of magic dolls want a night of peace in their noisy village, no matter the cost.  Collecting thirty stories of wonder and mischief, Don’t Let the Fairies Eat You is inspired by a time when misbegotten pregnancies and meat pies made of men were as expected in fairy tales as magic spells and happy endings. Here, you’ll find a world of unsympathetic princesses and elephants that don’t give up, of creatures that steal young girls on cold winter nights and fairies that are as likely to aid you as eat you. At times amusing, at others unnerving, Don’t Let the Fairies Eat You revels in the primal nature fairy tales once had, and invites you to enjoy the wildness of every story.