Here’s a list of all the events and publications that we can link you to in the coming weeks.

Events

February 5 at 7:00 PM ET

Book Club – While our February book club is over, our Patreon members in the $7+ tiers can watch the replay! 

Join us on February 5th at 7PM ET to discuss Naomi Novik’s beautiful novella The Summer War! A short one about different kinds of love for the short month when we celebrate love :).

Here’s the publisher’s description:

“Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother, Argent, left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land, she lashed out, not realizing her childish, angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.

While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly desires, Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him. Yet even as she grows from a girl to a woman, she cannot find the solution—until she learns the truth about the centuries-old war between her own people and the summerlings, immortal beings who hold a relentless grudge against their mortal neighbors.

Now, with the aid of her unwanted middle brother, Celia may be able to both undo her eldest brother’s curse and heal the lands so long torn apart by the Summer War.”

And here are a few reviews:

“This surprisingly tender paean to love of all kinds is a treat.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“… a magical, medieval-esque folk song captured on paper […] that will transport you into another reality for at least a couple of hours.” – Reactor

If you would like to join future book clubs, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for February! 

February 10 at 7:00 PM ET

Fairylore Book Launch Party – Our book is coming out on February 10 and if you preorder, you can get an invitation to our book launch party! It would mean the world to us if you’d buy a copy (or ask your library to buy a copy!) To sweeten the deal, if you preorder before 7PM ET tomorrow, you can join us for our book launch party and get some other pretty cool bonuses! There will be PRIZES. And words from Terri Windling, who wrote the foreword! 

If you love fairies and other supernatural creatures from around the world (yōkai, jinn, huldufólk, and literally dozens more), this book is for you. It’s built on real scholarship (check out the bibliography in the back, we had no chill) and it’s extremely readable and stunningly gorgeous, thanks to art by Annie Stegg Gerard and Kristin Kwan.

February 19 at 7:00 PM ET

Fairy Tale Salon – Here is the info for our February Fairy-Tale Salon.

Prompt: Embracing the Weird

Has anything really weird, or unexplainable, or even straight up supernatural ever happened to you? Have you ever followed an intuition that worked out fantastically, had an odd encounter you couldn’t really explain away, or had something happen to you that made you say “well, THAT was weird!” We want to hear all about it! If you can’t think of anything, we encourage you to go back to an older prompt of ours about small world stories: small world stories are unexpected encounters and connections that make you think “wow, what a small world” like running into your 8th grade teacher while on vacation in a different country or finding out you and your future husband attended the same birthday party when you were six years old, that kind of thing. That absolutely works for this prompt too!

If you would like to join us, make sure that you’re on the Salonnières tier or higher on our Patreon for February!

February 23 at 6:45 PM ET

Smithsonian Associates – Snow White – In 1937, our perception of fairy tales was forever changed when Walt Disney Productions released its first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film was a massive critical and commercial success. Culturally, it reset expectations of what fairy tales are, who they’re for, and what they represent.

Yet the 1937 Disney film is only a part of a much bigger “Snow White” tradition. Walt Disney based his film on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s 19th-century short story “Little Snow-White,” but variants of the story can be found all over the world, from “Eliduc,” a medieval narrative poem by Marie de France, to “The Young Slave” by Giambattista Basile. Even William Shakespeare told a version in one of his romance plays.

Every version of this fairy tale revolves around a deadly conflict between a mother figure and her daughter, and themes of beauty, jealousy, rivalry, cannibalism, and death remain prominent throughout its history. Contemporary creators continue to reimagine the tale in formats ranging from big-budget Hollywood films to quirky short stories to inventive novel-length retellings.

Folklorists Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman do a deep dive into the fairy tale of “Snow White,” revealing folkloric and literary tales that provided the bedrock preceding Disney’s version and examining how the story has been retold in contemporary times. This lecture also includes prompts for audience interaction.

Get your tickets here!

Current Courses Available

Ravens in the Labyrinth: World Mythology as Folklore ($427) – The story of the world has never been simple. (If you’ve been around Carterhaugh for a while, you know our tagline is basically “it’s complicated.”)

But we do know that we tell stories to try to make sense of it all – why we’re here, how love works, what happens after we die. And no matter where we go in the world, we find the same thing:

Myths. Mysterious, strange, sacred.

Not because they offer tidy answers, but because they hold our most important questions.

Where does love come from? Why do we fear the dark? What makes us human?

Some say all myths boil down to one universal tale. We say: not even close. 4 weeks. 20 daily lessons. 20+ myths. 4 live gatherings. 2 folklorists. 1 magical community. And you.

Step into the otherworlds of myth, where gods walk among mortals, tricksters bend fate, spirits demand sacrifice, and heroes confront –and occasionally cheat – their destiny. For millennia, these sacred stories have carried humanity’s deepest truths and realities – creation, loss, desire, terror, death, and awe – from one generation to the next.

In this course, we’ll guide you through the mysteries, power, and folklore of mythic tradition, exploring how these ancient narratives shaped human understanding of the world and how later writers and thinkers reimagined myth for new ages.

In Ravens in the Labyrinth, you’ll:

✨ Learn what sets myths apart from legends, fairy tales, and other folk narratives

✨ Explore how contemporary writers tangle with ancient myths (and how this helps keep their power alive)

✨ Identify the greatest historical pitfalls and the biggest lies of mythic scholarship and pop culture

✨ Discover why myth helps humanity grapple with the most momentous questions at our core

✨ Connect with a community of smart, kind, hilarious humans who love folklore as much as you do, with two folklorists acting as your personal Virgils of mythology

Click here to grab it!

Find Your Fairy Tale Mini-Course ($17) – Find Your Fairy Tale is a bite-sized mini course made to help you connect genuinely with the world of fairy tales and tap into the personal stories that underpin your life – so that you can harness their power or even start to change them. We guarantee academic excellence, dedication to whimsy, and an avenue right into a real sense of everyday enchantment. 

Some people swear by their Enneagram (we’re both 3s) or their Zodiac sign (*waves in Virgo and Scorpio*). We’re all about fairy tales and the insights they reveal.

Click here to grab it!

Press

We were interviewed on Deborah Zehna-Adams’ Substack about writing and Fairylore! Check it out here! 

We had the honor of being interviewed on Drinking Tea with Monsters, a podcast dedicated to “OCD and other, less scary monsters.” We talked about Brittany’s struggles with OCD (and how Sara supports her), about Carterhaugh, and how we work together. We also retold the fairy tale “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn About Fear” in our own, delightfully irreverent way (did you know it can be applied to neurodivergence? And features a whole ghost bowling scene?), so don’t miss that at the end. Click here to listen!

Publications

OUR BOOK, FAIRYLORE, IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!!!

Here’s the official description from our publisher, Sterling Ethos @ Hachette:

“A gorgeously illustrated guide to the fae, filled with intriguing and well-researched explorations of folklore from around the world.

In Ireland, the sinister leannán sídhe suck the life from artists and poets in exchange for muse-like inspiration. In Japan, the elusive zashiki-warashi bestow prosperity on the human families whose homes they share. From the dvorovoi of Russia to the Brazilian curupira, Malaysia’s orang bunian to English brownies, and the moksin tongbŏp of Korea, the world is full of magical creatures who assist, haunt, and dazzle humankind.

This illustrated compendium written by expert folklorists invites us to enter the realm of the fairy folk. Sections dedicated to fairies of the home, nature, romance, and more emphasize what fairies do and what they mean to people around the world. Each chapter illustrates a different way of seeing fairies—a way they’ve been used to explain our world and ourselves.

This is a fascinating reference for anyone who has ever been enchanted by fairies—or would like to be.”

Pre-order our book, tell us your order number, and we’ll send you some sweet bonuses.

Pre-Order Bonus #1: The Fairies of the Cutting-Room Floor

We are very sorry to say it, but some fairies didn’t make the cut for the final draft of Fairylore. We mean them no disrespect and often had VERY intentional reasons for cutting them – check out this PDF to learn all about them (and why they got the axe in the end!) Spoiler alert: a lot of them are Celtic because, well, there are a lot of different Celtic fairies, there are already a lot of wonderful books about them, and we simply couldn’t include them all. We still love them though.

Pre-Order Bonus #2: The Cut Stories eBook

Likewise, we had a lot of different public domain stories we could have used that we sadly couldn’t fit in – you can find them in this eBook though! Want to read about a troll that gets transformed into a cat? A banshee story that our publishers nixed because it is looonnnggg? How about the story of a Japanese guy who gets taken away to a fairyland under the sea? Of course you do!

Pre-Order Bonus #3: VIP Ticket to the VIRTUAL LAUNCH PARTY

We’re having a virtual party on February 10, 2026 (the day the book officially comes out), and we want YOU to be there! There will be behind-the-scenes gossip, lots of bonus fairy info, and PRIZES! But the only way to get your VIP ticket is by pre-ordering our book, so keep reading to find out how to get on our exclusive guest list (and make sure that the Red Cap bouncer doesn’t toss you out… or worse!)

Pre-order here!

We had a poem written from the alternative perspectives of Wendy and Tinker Bell from Peter Pan in the latest Winter Solstice issue of Eternal Haunted Summer! It’s called “Letters from Neverland,” and you can read it right here. The whole issue is themed around fairylore, and it’s FULL of delights, so definitely check it out!

Kelly Jarvis wrote a wonderful review of our new book, Fairylore, in The Fairy Tale Magazine! “Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk is a necessary book for all those who seek the rare blend of intellectual contemplation and fairy enchantment that Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman provide. It is both a valuable academic resource and a work of art that I will cherish and return to often as I continue to explore the fairy magic that beckons from ‘betwixt and between.’” Check out their review of Fairylore and preorder our book here!

Check out our article, “Fairies of the Moon— Excerpts from Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk” in Enchanted Living magazine! Learn about fairies who are associated with the moon in their beautiful moon goddess issue.