Retells fifty-five stories chosen to represent all the major tale types.

Sea-Woman; Piper and the Pooka; Frog Prince; Three Heads of the Well; A Village of Fools; Slumber King; Dathera Dad; Tom Tit Tot; King of the Cats; Her; Black Cull of Norway; False Knight on the Road; Samuel's Ghost; Dark Horseman; Mossycoat; Green Children; Small-Tooth Dog; Jack in the Beanstalk; Sir John Barleycorn; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Slam and the Ghosts; Last of the Picts; Monday, Tuesday; History of Tom Thumb; Fear and Fly; Oldest of Them All; Dauntless Girl; Dick Whittington; Channeling; Cruel Mother; Fine Field of Flax; Farmer and the Boggart; Fair Gruagbach; Billy; Magpies in the Crabtree; Shepherd's Tale; Peddler of Swaffham; Hughbo; Tam Lin; Cow That Ate the Piper; Fairy Ointment; Poll; Mule; Old Echo; Charger; Riddler; Yellow Lily; Baker's Daughter; Wildman; Boo!; Lambton Worm; Wise Men of Gotham; Three Blows; Butterfly Soul.