Essays Online
The Witch in Spring
Becoming Catherine Moreland; or, The Education of a Gothic Heroine
Ordinary Magic
The Fairy Fantasies of George MacDonald
The Decadent, Dangerous Mr. Wilde
Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales
My Apartment in Budapest
How to Be a Modern Romantic
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Art Nouveau Elvenlands
Professor Tolkien and the Fairies
The Invention of the Modern Monster
Into the Dark Forest: The Fairy Tale Heroine’s Journey
Planting a Magical Garden
The Myth and Magic of Narnia
A Brief History of Monsters
Writing My Mother’s Ghosts
Hungarian Fairies
Essays Published
“The Witch in Autumn,” Enchanted Living 64, Autumn 2023.
“Koalas in Fairyland: The Enchanting Art of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite,” Enchanted Living 64, Autumn 2023.
“The Witch in Summer,” Enchanted Living 63, Summer 2023.
“The Witch in Spring,” Enchanted Living 62, Spring 2023.
“Becoming Catherine Moreland; or, The Education of a Gothic Heroine,” Enchanted Living 61, Winter 2022.
“Ordinary Magic,” Enchanted Living 60, Autumn 2022.
“The Fairy Fantasies of George MacDonald,” Enchanted Living 58, Spring 2022.
“The Decadent, Dangerous Mr. Wilde,” Enchanted Living 57, Winter 2021.
“Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales,” Enchanted Living 56, Autumn 2021.
“My Apartment in Budapest“, Enchanted Living 55, Summer 2021.
“Which Fairy Queen Are You?” Enchanted Living 54, Spring 2021.
“How to Be a Modern Romantic,” Enchanted Living 53, Winter 2020.
“Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Anthropology,” The Baker Street Journal 70.2, Summer, 2020.
“J.R.R. Tolkien’s Art Nouveau Elvenlands,” Enchanted Living 47, Summer 2019.
“Professor Tolkien and the Fairies,” Faerie Magazine 42, Spring 2018.
“Dear Alice,” Letters to Tiptree, 2015.
“The Fin-de-Siècle Monster,” Story 2, 2015. LitHub, July 28, 2015 (as “The Invention of the Modern Monster“).
“Into the Dark Forest: The Fairy Tale Heroine’s Journey,” Faerie Magazine 30, Spring 2015.
“Listening to Krao: What the Freak and Monster Tell Us,” Conjunctions 59, Fall 2012.
“Planting a Magical Garden,” Cabinet des Fées, May 2012.
“The Myth and Magic of Narnia,” Realms of Fantasy, October 2011.
“A Brief History of Monsters,” Realms of Fantasy, August 2011. Weird Fiction Review, March 2012.
“Fairies and Fairylands,” Realms of Fantasy, June 2011.
“Vampires in Folklore and Literature,” Realms of Fantasy, April 2011.
“The Femme Fatale at the Fin-de-Siècle,” Realms of Fantasy, February 2011.
“Strange Faces,” Weird Tales 356 (“Uncanny Beauty: A Celebration of the Eerily Sensuous”), Summer 2010 .
“Writing My Mother’s Ghosts,” Clarkesworld Magazine 23, August 2008. Mithila Review 3, May 2016.
“Hungarian Fairies,” Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer-Fall 2006. Realms of Fantasy, June 2008.
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