☆🦉We’re officially fully funded via Kickstarter! 🦉☆
Enter the long forgotten world of Flemish folktales and dance on a dark tune with spirits who live in the wind, monsters who lurk in rivers, ghosts, devils, witches, and other unearthly creatures as they take you to the woods, the towns, the fields, and the sea...
Welcome to the world of strange, dark, and enchanting lore from Flanders. This new retelling of thirty-six stories remains truthful to the original tales as they were once told around the fireside many moons ago. Breathing new life into age-old lore, these reimaginings give a voice to the shunned witches, explore the inner thoughts of creatures ostensibly described as grisly and ghastly, and immerse readers in the harrowing experiences of those unwantedly thrust into frightful narratives.
We hope you’ll consider joining us on this lovely, eerie journey and breathe new life into these long forgotten stories from Flanders 🖤
The work now continues! Our timeline for the book’s completion is Spring of 2024 with a delivery estimate of May 2024. In addition to finishing these tales, we’ll also be working at creating all of our backers’ KS-exclusive and custom rewards that are crafted to our book’s reimagined tales and illustrations. Digital Add-Ons will be the first to ship out by December 2023.
From the campaign page:
Flemish Folktales Retold is a collaborative project by Gatto Books from Signe Maene, Cate Zeederberg, and Kerria Seabrooke with Signe breathing new life into the age-old forgotten folktales of Flanders, Cate bringing these characters and haunted places to life with illustrations that capture the dark and enchanting folklore world in which they are set and Kerria editing this sometimes chilling, often strange, and eternally enchanting collection as well as overseeing the publication of the book.
This book will retell thirty-six tales which will be divided into six themes. The aim of the project is to remain truthful to the original tales as they were once told around the fireplace many moons ago, but to reimagine them, to give a voice to the shunned witches, explore the inner thoughts of creatures ostensibly described as grisly and ghastly, and immerse readers in the harrowing experiences of those unwantedly thrust into frightful narratives.