Faerie Tale follows the story of the Hastings family and their move to a rural mansion in New York. The Hastings family includes: Phil Hastings, a screenwriter working on a novel, and his wife, retired actress Gloria Hastings, Phil's daughter, Gabbie, a wealthy heiress from Phil's previous marriage, and the twins, Sean and Patrick, who are particularly targeted by the “bad thing”. in history. The "Bad Thing" is a servant of the evil Fairy King who attempts to re-enter the mortal world before the "Move" closes the temporary portal between the worlds at midnight on Halloween. Throughout the story, different characters help the Hastings in different ways. Most helpful are Irish immigrant Barney Doyle who ultimately tells Sean how to save Patrick from the fairy kingdom, and Mark Blackman, an author who provides information along the way whenever a new secret about the mansion is revealed. revealed. Ultimately, King Erl is killed only to be replaced by the fairy who kills him, revealing the cyclical nature of the fairy realm and how the creatures are not truly immortal but trapped in a predestined loop that repeats the same story forever ; the queen and king fall in love, a child is stolen, he gets into a fight, resulting in a half-war between two factions, with the new king sometimes killing the bad king to become a good king or siding with the bad king to become a bad king and kill the queen. Various "twists" may occur, but the fairies know that the end result will always be the crowning of a new king and queen through the shedding of blood. Analysis of the Novel From the beginning, it becomes clear that many of the characters represent familiar archetypes. Gabbie is a young, budding virgin, beautiful, innocent and vulnerable... middle of paper ... the world because of the invasion of the fairy kingdom. Feist does little to reimagine Europe's original fairy tales, even keeping the names Titania and Oberon, as well as the original story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in which the evil Thing ends up being the stolen Indian boy in this story. Instead, it simply continues the story in the modern world, although Sean soon discovers that he must use the ancient methods of protection, fairy stones and silver, to defeat King Erl. In doing so, he continues the cycle that the Fairy Queen and the Fool tell them he started all along. Even Sean's fears at the beginning hint at unchanging universal fears. He is afraid of the dark, of the creature that appears in the woods, of death. By using the innocence of the child, Feist can present these fears without being tainted by adult rationalism and cynicism..