Faeries may start out in our minds as sweet innocent magical creatures, small and winged. But as literature matures, so do the faeries, and they often weave a little darkness into the world.
Artemis Fowl series — Eion Colfer
Blue Girl — Charles deLint
Chronicles of Faerie — O.R. Melling
Discworld series — Terry Pratchett
Faerie Wars — Herbie Brennan
Finder — Emma Bull
Five Children and It — E. Nesbit
Ironside — Holly Black
I Was a Teenage Fairy — Francesca Lia Block
Kingfisher's Gift — Susan Williams Beckhorn
Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare
Moorchild — Eloise McGraw
New Policeman — Kate Thompson
Poison — Chris Wooding
Raven Queen — by Terri Windling & Ellen Steiber
Spiderwick Chronicles — Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
Stardust — Neil Gaiman
Summer King — O.R. Melling
Summerland — Michael Chabon
Tithe — Holly Black
Valiant — Holly Black
The Various — Steve Augarde
Vögelein — Jane Irwin
War for the Oaks — Emma Bull
Wicked Lovely — Melissa Marr
Wintersmith — Terry Pratchett
(Blackthorn Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker)