Faerie Tale is a supernatural thriller, falling within the subgenre of contemporary fantasy, by American writer Raymond E. Feist,[1] first published in 1988.

[4][5] Professor Jack Zipes at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, wrote "This message[which?]

The plot concerns a successful screenwriter by the name of Phil Hasting, who moves into a huge house in rural upstate New York with his wife and three children."

Zipes goes on to say: "Feist's novel contains long-winded expositions about magic, Celtic tradition, and fairies and has a secondary plot concerned with Hastings teenage princess daughter, a rich heiress, who falls in love with an all-American graduate student writing his dissertation on a topic related to the occult and magic".

[6] Romance novel author Shona Husk wrote "However, the scary book that has really stayed with me is Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist which I also read as a teenager.