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Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness

10 best books like Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness (Fritz Leiber): The Shadow of the Torturer, The Once and Future King, Anno Dracula, The Pale Horse, The Innkeeper's Song, The Book of Lost Saints, Dead Astronauts, Deceived, A Deepness in the Sky, Dead Man's Folly

The Shadow of the Torturer
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671540661
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".

You can rarely trust the...
The Once and Future King
AuthorT.H. White
ISBN0441627404
This book terrified me, on many levels. It's 667 pages long, to begin with. It's been a while since I read a serious chunkster like that (besides Harry Potter, which somehow in my mind doesn't really count...).

Besides that, I am just not a fan of "Authur" stories, despite my deep love of the Disney...
Anno Dracula
AuthorKim Newman
ISBN0857680838
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes...
The Pale Horse
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0312981716
"Wickedness...such wickedness...."
The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes. "Stopped....It must be stopped....You will...."

The priest spoke with reassuring authority. "I will do what is necessary. You can trust me."

Father Gorman tucked the list...
The Innkeeper's Song
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN0451452887
The Innkeeper’s Song is the story of young Tikat’s search for the lover whose death and resurrection he witnessed. It is a search that will lead him into a world of magic and mystery beyond his comprehension, for his wild ride sets him on the trail of three women who are blessed—or cursed—to undertake...
The Book of Lost Saints
AuthorDaniel José Older
ISBN1250185823
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and family bonds

Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, her fate unknown and lost to time. Now, haunted by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon,...
Dead Astronauts
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters — Grayson, Morse and Chen — shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.

A messianic...
Deceived
AuthorPaul S. Kemp
ISBN0345511387
The second novel set in the Old Republic era and based on the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars®: The Old Republic™ ramps up the action and brings readers face-to-face for the first time with a Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order’s Dark Lords—Darth Malgus, the mysterious,...
A Deepness in the Sky
AuthorVernor Vinge
ISBN0812536355
Alternative Cover Edition can be found here.

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.

The...
Dead Man's Folly
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN1572705477
Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain...or get away from. In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot...
Attack of the Clones
AuthorR.A. Salvatore
ISBN0099410575
There is great disturbance in the Force . . .

Mischievous and resolved, courageous to the point of recklessness, Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council, and a challenge to his Jedi Master....
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
AuthorBrynne Stephens
ISBN1560601760
This classic has been hanging over my head for years. I put off reading it guessing that like many other oldies, but goodies, I would read it and be unimpressed, thus becoming hated by all original die hard fans. I finally decided to give it a go. The beginning suffered from a slow start and over abundance...
Hiperballada
AuthorZoltán László
ISBN9638656832
A ​fiatal szerzőnek számos novellája jelent meg a Cherubion SF-antológiák, az Átjáró és a Galaktika hasábjain. Első regénye egy alternatív történelmi valóság 2019-ébe vezeti el az olvasót, ahol nem történt meg a rendszerváltás, és a Szovjetunió minden szempontból...
Sunstorm
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0345452518
"Sunstorm" è il riuscitissimo seguito de "L'occhio del tempo", del leggendario autore di fantascienza Arthur C. Clarke e di uno dei suoi piu capaci eredi, Stephen Baxter. Dopo cinque anni passati su Mir, il pianeta costruito dalla misteriosa razza dei Primogeniti con migliaia di schegge temporali...
Nagate
AuthorZoltán László
Nagate... Egyesek azt gondolták, Tolkien és társai meséi elevenedtek meg, mások pusztán üzleti lehetőséget, szó szerint végtelen piacot láttak benne. Egy városvilág, melynek utcáiról lehetetlen térképet készíteni, melynek épületei lerombolhatatlanok, s melyben...
The Magehound
AuthorElaine Cunningham
ISBN0786915617
Some are born with magic.
Some without.

Matteo, un-magical counselor to the mighty of Halruaa, has devoted his life to the truth -- until he finds that he may have a hidden spark of magic after all. Now, with only a street waif for a companion, he's on the run from the mysterious Cabal. In the...
How I Came to Know Fish
AuthorOta Pavel
ISBN0811211657
Unassuming and unforgettable, the stories of How I Came to Know Fish memorialize Ota Pavel's childhood in Czechoslovakia—his beloved family, the flash of fish in clear streams, and the annihilation of this world by the Nazis. His father (a wildly canny fisherman) first has his fish pond confiscated...
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
AuthorGladys Mitchell
ISBN1601870000
When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, minus its head, laid out in the village butcher shop, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset.

Sethleigh was a blackmailing money lender and when the unconventional detective Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she...
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