America has always been a land of stories, some thrilling and others downright terrifying. From ghostly apparitions to mysterious creatures lurking in the shadows, these folk tales have been passed ...

When Robert Weil, the editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, approached Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar with the idea of putting together “The Annotated African American Folktales ...

Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...

A new art exhibit at downtown San Antonio's Centro de Artes Gallery will celebrate the things that go bump in the night. Beginning October 2, Cuentos y Arte: Mexican American Folk Tales of the ...

As days go, Hazel is having one for the books. Her mother was lost in a hurricane after they had a fight, there are dangerous black-and-red creatures called haints everywhere, and she discovers that ...

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 ...

The trickster is a being that loves to create chaos. In Native American traditions, it takes many forms and appears in many stories. Now it's taking the form of a graphic novel. Trickster is the first ...

This review originally ran in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. A couple of years ago, Bob Iger, at the time the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, got an ...