• Have students read some of A.S. Byatt's other short stories from The Little Black Book of Stories, in which "The Thing in the Forest" is found.
• Explore Byatt's other short stories and novels, including ugar, and Other Stories (1987), The Matisse Stories (1993), Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998), Possession (1990), The Biographer's Tale (2000), The Children's Book (2009), Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (2011).
• Consider reading selections from other authors who incorporate the use of fairy tales and magical realism in their works, such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Iris Murdoch, N.K. Jemisen, Hilary Mantel, and Margaret Atwood.
• Incorporate classic fairy-tales, such as...
