51
Tales
Fables for the ones still becoming — and the ones still asking why.
Fifty-one stories, four volumes: fables for children that earn their wonder honestly, and stories for grown readers that don't flinch from what comes after.
Four volumes, one shoreline
Two collections for children, moving from rhythm and comfort through mischief and, when the moral asks for it, a little daring. Two volumes for grown readers, carrying the same current into harder water.
I
Collection One
15 tales · ages 0–12
The flagship. Bedtime stories in three age bands, opening the series — including "Come Flying Home."
II
Collection Two
9 tales · ages 0–12
A companion volume — nature's quieter beings, the spiritual guide, and the choices that shape a child.
III
Adult Volume
16 tales · grown readers
Six futures worth wanting, and ten stories drawn from history and the present — speculative, unhurried.
IV
The Cycle of Passing
11 tales · grown readers
One long arc on death and what follows — the loosening that comes as a soul nears the light.
Every tale rests on a current you don't see at the surface.
This is what a shelf full of "fables with a moral" is usually missing: each of these stories carries its own quiet logic underneath — plainspoken enough for a child, deep enough to send a grown reader back to reread it.
You can enjoy the story and never look under the water. Or you can lift the surface, at the close of any tale, and find the current that was carrying it the whole time.
— a convention kept across all 51 tales, all four volumes
For young readers
Adventure and heart, with depth beneath
Fables in the tradition of Aesop and Kahlil Gibran — read aloud at bedtime, gifted at christenings, kept on the shelf past the age they were bought for. Suspense shows up in exactly eight tales, and only because the moral costs something.
See Collections One & Two →For grown readers
Stories that sit with the hard questions
Literary spiritual fiction for readers of Coelho, Gibran, and Bachelard — speculative futures, historical fables, and one unflinching arc on death and what comes after.
See Volumes Three & Four →About
The hand under the water
The Grail Fables is an independent publishing house built around one conviction: that a story can be plainspoken without being shallow, and honest without being grim.
The author writes these fables slowly — a few each year, each one allowed to find its quiet logic before it's set down. The result is a shelf sized not by output but by care: fifty-one tales, published a handful at a time, each carrying the same current the first one did.
— The Grail Fables
Write to us
For presses & partners
Trade, rights & bulk
Book clubs, homeschool co-ops, classrooms, and reviewers — we welcome thoughtful enquiries and offer bulk rates for reading groups.
contact@grailfables.com →Come aboard
One free tale, first — then word when Collection One is ready to hold in your hands. No noise between now and then.
Book clubs, homeschool co-ops, and classrooms: write to contact@grailfables.com for bulk rates.