A mother and father argue over whether or not to allow fairies to punish their daughter who is mutilating innocent fairytale creatures.

When a middle-aged woman’s daughter mysteriously reappears after going missing for three years, she notices something about her child isn’t quite the same.

A young girl knows something isn't right when her sister comes home from boarding school pregnant, with a strange husband. When her parents are found dead a few days later, she immediately suspects her brother-in-law and turns to the faerie tree in her front yard for help--but the faeries strike a tough bargain.

An eerie description of characteristic fairy tale elements and how they are embodied in characters.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

A young woman struggles to reenter her life after she returns from the Fae world: everywhere she looks, she sees signs of them and the pain they cause. Eventually she must decide whether to rejoin them or to stay where she is in Seattle.

A young mother in the rural Northeast writes magical children's books based on her daughter's adventures. Years later, the mother dies, and her daughter returns to her childhood house to find out whether or not the magical world she played in as a child really exists.

A town has frequent visits from phantom apparitions, and the townspeople have many explanations for the ghosts, ranging from disbelief to hallucination to the idea that humans and phantoms were once a single race.

Two elderly sisters who have lived in near isolation finally leave their house and enter society after one sister is tricked by the king of their medieval kingdom into leaving their secluded palace. The king transforms one sister into a beautiful young woman, but the process goes terribly wrong when he attempts to beautify the other sister as well. As both sisters are tortured and ridiculed by the townspeople for the way that they look, they quickly regret their decision to ever leave the safety of their home and fall into despair at their equally botched transformations.

A young witch's apprentice brings her crush along with her to harvest pixies, making him swear to not get into trouble; as they fall deeper in love, they wander closer to peril.