"Wonderous Stories" is a song by the English rock band Yes, released in 1977 as the first single from their eighth studio album, Going for the One. It was written by lead vocalist Jon Anderson, who gained inspiration for the song one morning during his stay in Montreux, Switzerland where the band recorded the album. The song reached number 7 on the UK Singles Chart and remains the band's highest charting single in the country.

By October 1976, the Yes line-up of singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Patrick Moraz had retreated to Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland to record their eighth studio album, Going for the One (1977). The group had worked on a substantial amount of new songs for the album, one of them being "Wonderous Stories" by Anderson, to which the group contributed ideas to develop them further. Early into the sessions, however, Moraz was asked to leave the band, something that he did not expect and later reasoned it down to the internal pressures of the group and ongoing issues that he was unaware of. His departure came after the group invited previous keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who had left in 1974, to play on the album. A demo tape containing early versions of "Wonderous Stories" and "Going for the One" was sent to Wakeman in England, who liked the direction the band were going with the songs and felt he could contribute to the music. He subsequently agreed to travel to Switzerland and rejoin the band. "Wonderous Stories" was produced collectively by the band, with John Timperley as their recording engineer and David Richards assisting.

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