Mermaids in the Basement

1993

From The Beast To The Blonde

On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

1994

In A Dark Wood

1977

Into the Dangerous World

Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

1989

Forms of Enchantment

Writings on Art and Artists

2018

The Outcast Hours

2019

World of Myths

2003

Once Upon a Time

A Short History of Fairy Tale

2014

Murderers I Have Known

2002

Monuments and Maidens

The Allegory of the Female Form

1985

L'Atalante

1993

Skating Party

1982

Queen Victoria's sketchbook

1979

Alone of All Her Sex

The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

1976

Joan of Arc

The Image of Female Heroism

1981

The Lost Father

1988

The Leto Bundle

2001

Refugee Tales II

Volume II

2017

Signs and Wonders

Essays on Literature and Culture

2003

No Go the Bogeyman

Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

1998

Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

Ways of Telling the Self

2002

The Dragon Empress

Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China

1972

Phantasmagoria

Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century

2006

Long Ago and Far Away

Eight Traditional Fairy Tales

2012

Six Myths of Our Time

Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More

1994

Stranger Magic

Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

2011

Fly Away Home

2015

Monsters of Our Own Making

The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear

2007

Esmond and Ilia

An Unreliable Memoir

2021

Indigo

1992