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Screenshot from the NES game The Legend of Zelda
Featured Essays
The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda Endures as a Piece of Modern Folklore

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Illustration from S.C. Hall's The Book of British Ballads (1842)
Books
Fairy Tales

Folklore Meets Murder Ballad: Six Retellings of “The Cruel Sister”

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Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)
Featured Essays
vampires

Bite or Flight: Ranking Classic Vampire Strengths and Weaknesses

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Detail from the cover of The Lustrous Dark
Books
publishing news

Revealing The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni

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Black and while illustration of the Jersey Devil, a winged creature with the head of a horse, as depicted in the TV docu-series "Monster Chronicles"
Books
folklore

The Jersey Devil Is Ready For Its Close-Up

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Illustration from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; Art by Stephen Gammell
Books
folklore

Five SFF Works Inspired by Urban Myths

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William Katt and Sean Young with a dinosaur puppet in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
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SFF Bestiary

Bringing Up Cryptids — Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

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An outdated model of a sauropod as shown in MonsterQuest; illustration by paleo-artist Neave Parker
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SFF Bestiary

MonsterQuest Hunts the Mokele-Mbembe

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Illustration depicting a brontosaurus as an aquatic creature
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SFF Bestiary

A Creature From the Jungles of Africa: Tales of the Mokele-Mbembe

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Phascolarctos cinereus -ZooParc de Beauval, France. Author frank wouters (CC-BY), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31676385
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SFF Bestiary

A Brief Interlude Down Under: Cryptids, Australian Style

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Illustration from Jenny Wagner’s The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek; art by Ron Brooks
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SFF Bestiary

Cryptids for Kids: The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek and Hector’s Bunyip

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Cover of Hellions by Julia Elliott.
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short story collection

Read an Excerpt From Hellions by Julia Elliott

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