A young man does a kindness for an old woman, but the reward he gets is stolen by a witch! Will he be able to outsmart her and regain his treasures?

Today’s story, “The Farmer’s Children” by Elizabeth Bishop, an American poetry and short story writer, seems a showcase for the evil stepmother archetype.

A kind and clever young man named Jesper sets off to marry the princess. Will the tasks the king sets prove too much for him?

The emperor has ears like a goat’s, but woe to anyone who says so! Might a barber’s apprentice be the one who can hold his tongue?

One of the great works of revenge fiction; Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.”