Gramarye 27: Summer Journal 2025, Issue 27

Paperback. The journal of The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. This issue includes:‘The Mythical Interactions between the Pied Piper, Dracula and Nosferatu: Rat Kings and the Rat as Vampiric Totem Animal’, Dr Sam George, ‘Mr Tumnus’s Bookshelf’, Jem Bloomfield, ‘Generic Hybridity and the Critique of Instrumentalism in the Enchanted Landscapes of Dark Fairy Romance’, Bill Hughes, ‘Like a Mermaid: The Evolution of Mermaids in British and Irish Similes, 1850-2000’, Simon Young, ‘Manannan mac y Leir’, Simon Maddrell, ‘One Year a Wife’, Caroline Beuley, ‘Thomas the Rhymer and the Ancient Paths’, Marly Youmans, ‘The Shoemaker of Siberia’, KG Mach, ‘The Earth Was Scarred & So Was I’, Mish Gajewski-Zambataro, ‘this is why their bones were licked clean’, Gabriella Fryer, ‘Wood Woes’, Rosie Beech, A review of The Meaning of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited, Kirill Melnikov, A review of The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs, Talitha May, A review of Reality, Magic and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths, Apolline Weibel, A review of The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings, Katherine Langrish