Mary De Morgan 2 hr 1 min read

The beautiful, wicked Princess Fiorimonde works a deadly enchantment: each of her suitors, one by one, vanishes into the golden beads of her necklace.

Mary De Morgan's 1880 collection, illustrated by Walter Crane, gathers superb literary fairy tales. Elegant, dark, beautifully told. Read it for a treasury of Victorian fairy tales with real bite, a murderous enchanted necklace among them, from a master of the form, richly adorned with Crane's illustrations.

In its time

Published in 1880, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

2 hr 1 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Walter Crane