{"product_id":"fairies-fae-m-c-neuffer-9798235533271","title":"Fairies \u0026 Fae","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFairies and Fae are not what you think they are.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Tinkerbell. Before Disney. Before the flower fairies of Victorian illustration, there were older things in the hills. Beautiful, terrible, operating by their own unforgiving rules, indifferent to human concerns in the way that the very old and very powerful are indifferent. This is the fairy tradition that writers working at the highest level of the genre have always known. \u003cem\u003eFairies and Fae\u003c\/em\u003e gives every fiction writer the keys to writing in that tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on anthropology, folklore, neurology, literary history, and the craft of fiction itself, this book traces fairy mythology from its roots in the Celtic heartland through Norse, Germanic, Asian, African, and indigenous American traditions revealing the cross-cultural patterns that make the fairy one of the most durable and psychologically potent figures in world mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you'll find here: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe deep psychology\u003c\/strong\u003e behind fairy belief, Why the human mind, across every culture and century, has needed to populate the liminal spaces of experience with beings that operate by their own alien logic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe world map\u003c\/strong\u003e - Celtic Sidhe and Seelie Courts, Norse \u003cem\u003ealfar\u003c\/em\u003e, Arabian \u003cem\u003ejinn\u003c\/em\u003e, Japanese \u003cem\u003eyōkai\u003c\/em\u003e, African spirit traditions and their diaspora transformations, with specific attention to what makes each tradition distinct and what it offers writers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe Rulebook\u003c\/strong\u003e - iron, bargains, names, fairy food, time distortion, and the other cross-cultural laws that define fairy beings, with analysis of \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e these rules feel universally true and how to use them without making them feel mechanical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe darkness\u003c\/strong\u003e - the changeling, the fairy lover, the Wild Hunt, the Fairy Queen, and the traditions that serious modern fiction has reclaimed from Victorian sanitization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe history\u003c\/strong\u003e - from Shakespeare's watershed treatment in \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e through Spenser, the Victorian catastrophe, Yeats, Tolkien, and the current romantasy explosion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe hoaxes\u003c\/strong\u003e - the Cottingley Affair, the Fairy Investigation Society, P.T. Barnum to internet memes, and the anatomy of why we want to be fooled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe craft\u003c\/strong\u003e - a dedicated section on building internally consistent fairy rule systems, writing genuinely alien fairy characters, using court structures as plot engines, and signaling to readers what kind of fairy story they're in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a beginner's guide to fantasy tropes. It is an authoritative reference for fiction writers who want to work with the fairy tradition at full depth - recovering the power that was there before the miniaturization, before the wings, before the belief that fairies exist to delight children. That older tradition is darker, stranger, and far more useful to serious storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. C. Neuffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235533271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e M C Neuffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.84d","brand":"M. C. Neuffer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001582461183,"sku":"9798235533271","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fairies-fae-m-c-neuffer-9798235533271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}