Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
10 best books like Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (Clive Barker): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Un Lun Dun, The Hidden Land, Runelight, The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volumes 1-3: Boxed Set: Dragon's Blood, Heart's Blood, and A Sending of Dragons, Shoggoth's Old Peculiar, Night at the Museum: A Junior Novelization, The Wizard's Dilemma, The Claidi Collection
| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| ISBN | 0545010225 |
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.
The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...
| Author | Chris Wooding |
| ISBN | 0439598516 |
The Alienist meets Dracula in this gripping, gothic-horror thriller from young UK phenom Chris Wooding.
Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline--his friend and mentor--track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345495160 |
What is Un Lun Dun?
It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is...
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0142501433 |
"That talent of mine that in my country turns to sorcery, in yours turns to this making up." (italics mine).
Essentially, this and the Secret Country should have been one book. I would have still been furious with it for being desperately and deliciously subtle, but the jarring feeling of the...
The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152057676 |
The adventures of young dragon master Jakkin Stewart are brilliantly chronicled in this epic fantasy--from his apprenticeship in Dragon's Blood, to his breathtaking escape with his beloved Akki in Heart's Blood, and straight through to their harrowing discovery in the third volume, A Sending of...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1892058073 |
One of my favorite writers satirizing another of my favorite authors, how could I not enjoy this story?
Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar is Neil Gaiman having some fun with H.P. Lovecraft’s classic story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”.
An innocent abroad runs across the English Innsmouth...
| Author | Leslie Goldman |
| ISBN | 0764135767 |
Here is a novelized version of the new hit comedy film released by Fox Studios in December ’06. It’s an expanded version of Milan Trenc’s picture storybook for children, The Night at the Museum, which was first published by Barron’s several seasons ago. On his very first night at work, the night...
Nita's having some problems.
First, she's started high school, and while she's still considered brainy, her subjects aren't coming as easily to her as they used to. She's starting to feel kinda inadequate next to Kit, who, though a year younger, is still breezing through everything.
Going...
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0525472053 |
Just over six years ago I walked into this little bookstore called Books of Wonder for the first time in my life. And on the front end cap, directly facing the revolving door, on the middle shelf, was a thick book with a purple cover and a gold spine entitled THE CLAIDI JOURNALS. I had heard of Tanith Lee before,...
| Author | Eric S. Nylund |
| ISBN | 0765323044 |
In Mortal Coils, the first book in sequence, we are introduced to the teenaged twins Eliot and Fiona Post. Children of scions of opposing factions, the Immortal Audrey Post(aka Atropos) and the Infernal Louis Piper (aka Lucifer), they have an uneventful, if odd, homeschooled and shut in life, until...
| Author | Douglas E. Winter |
| ISBN | 0066213924 |
Clive Barker: a modern myth-maker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears, the writer who -- more than any other contemporary figure -- has shaped our nightmares through diverse media. Novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, artist and director, he is a master at twisting the mundane...
| Author | Sabrina Benulis |
| ISBN | 0062069411 |
The haunting gothic tale started in Archon continues-a mesmerizing work of the paranormal in which a young woman discovers that she is caught in a labyrinth of intrigue where angels, demons, and all the creatures between Heaven and Hell will stop at nothing to possess her.
A year ago, Angela...
Die fanatischen Heerscharen des Pannionischen Sehers stürmen aus dem Süden heran und überziehen Genabackis mit einer Welle der Gewalt. Um die schreckliche Armee abzuwehren, muss sich Hohefaust Dujek Einarm mit seinen früheren Feinden verbünden, dem Kriegsherrn Caladan Bruth und den Bewohnern...
| Author | Hiromi Goto |
| ISBN | 0670065277 |
The breathtaking follow-up to the award-winning Half World Adopted as an infant, Gee has been kept ignorant of his troubled past. Now, at sixteen, he is a loner both despised and feared by his classmates. Dark feelings slowly grow inside him, but as he struggles to control them, his past catches up with...
Barely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sharp wits and mysterious markings on her skin. All of which make her perfect bait for a child prostitution sting in the city of Elantra - if she survives her first meeting with the Hawks!
Join...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 1416990119 |
Just when it seemed to book has closed on the Spiderwick Chronicles, a new chapter begins far from the old-fashioned charm of New England. Under the hot Florida sun, Nick Vargas and his annoying new stepsister, Laurie, stumble upon the faerie world. A nixie asks for their help to save her sisters and before...
| Author | Charles de Lint |
| ISBN | 0142401587 |
Charles de Lint's remarkable novels and shorter fiction are, in a very real sense, coming of age stories. Here, for the first time, is a collection of his stories about teenagers&150a collection for teen and adult readers alike. From the streets of his famed Newford to the alleys of Bordertown to...
| Author | Daniel Fox |
| ISBN | 0345503058 |
From award-winning author Daniel Fox comes a ravishingly written epic of revolution and romance set in a world where magic is found in stone and in water, in dragons and in men-and in the chains that bind them.
Deposed by a vicious usurper, a young emperor flees with his court to the small island...
| Author | Michael Molloy |
| ISBN | 0439577411 |
The break-out literary novel from Michael Molloy, who has achieved great commercial success with his WITCH TRADE and TIME WITCHES books.When Tim moves to his grandparent's village, everything seems mysterious. Why are there no flowers anywhere? Who is the weeping woman wandering through midnight...
| Author | Stephen Jones |
| ISBN | 0061053678 |
In this richly illustrated volume--masterfully complied from the BBC television miniseries by Stephen Jones--Clive Barker, the modern master of horror, takes you on a terrifyingly intimate tour of his personal sources and secrets. Here is the unspeakable stuff of which Barker's vision was formed:...
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 1887368779 |
Initially I was disappointed to learn that Poppy Z. Brite had decided to leave her gothic fantasy world of New Orlean’s far behind in exchange for a toned down look at life from the point of view of the regular folks inhabiting New Orleans (mostly gay, hard-working cooks).
I really enjoyed...
| Author | Gesa Schwartz |
| ISBN | 3802583035 |
„Sie fürchten und beschützen uns seit uralter Zeit. Sie sind der kalte Hauch, der in einer warmen Sommernacht deine Wange streift, wenn du schläfst, und sie sind der schwache Duft von Dunkelheit im Morgengrauen. Sie sind die gefallenen Engel unserer Zeit, sie sind – die Gargoyles.“
Der...
In the lands of Saranthium, the pact between human and serpent is failing. Rogue serpents are attacking villages, and in the city of Salmut, rumours claim that the banished god, Azoth, has returned to resurrect his empire of slavery. An orphan at five, a thief and a survivor, Shaan lives in a whorehouse...
