Turkish Folk & Fairy Tales
With a new introduction to the Turkish folk tales in this collection are curious and bizarre, beautiful and delightful, combining elements of ancient Anatolian folk lore with Slavonic, Scandinavian and Arabian influences. Entertaining and exuberant they shame the more prosaic fairy stories of other traditions with contains stories such as 'How Cobbler Ahmet Became the Chief Astrologer', 'The Horse-Devil and the Witch', 'How the Devil lost his Wager', 'The Prayer Rug and the Dishonest Steward', 'Paradise Sold by the Yard', 'The Cinder-Youth', 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Forty Princes and the Seven-Headed Dragon'.
FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Product details
Paperback, 256 pages, 90000 words, 10 illustrations
ISBN: 9781804173329
Series: The World's Greatest Myths and Legends
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 15 mm
Paperback, 256 pages, 90000 words, 10 illustrations
ISBN: 9781804173329
Series: The World's Greatest Myths and Legends
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 15 mm
Available from
14 Feb 2023
£6.99