Esmond and Ilia

An Unreliable Memoir

2021

The Outcast Hours

2019

Forms of Enchantment

Writings on Art and Artists

2018

Refugee Tales II

Volume II

2017

Fly Away Home

2015

Once Upon a Time

A Short History of Fairy Tale

2014

Long Ago and Far Away

Eight Traditional Fairy Tales

2012

Stranger Magic

Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

2011

Monsters of Our Own Making

The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear

2007

Phantasmagoria

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

2006

World of Myths

2003

Signs and Wonders

Essays on Literature and Culture

2003

Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

Ways of Telling the Self

2002

Murderers I Have Known

2002

The Leto Bundle

2001

No Go the Bogeyman

Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

1998

From The Beast To The Blonde

On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

1994

Six Myths of Our Time

Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More

1994

L'Atalante

1993

Mermaids in the Basement

1993

Indigo

1992

Into the Dangerous World

Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

1989

The Lost Father

1988

Monuments and Maidens

The Allegory of the Female Form

1985

Skating Party

1982

Joan of Arc

The Image of Female Heroism

1981

Queen Victoria's sketchbook

1979

In A Dark Wood

1977

Alone of All Her Sex

The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

1976

The Dragon Empress

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

1972