<p>It is evening at the Inn of the Sign of Mother Goose. In a dark, smoky room, the world&rsquo;s most famous storytellers gather to weave tales of mystery and enchantment. In this collection of 16 haunting fairy tales, Howard Pyle intertwines each story with the next, crafting a unified world filled with princes and demons, genies and sorceresses, and all the characters that pitch in to wage the age-old battle between good and evil.</p>