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10 best books like Fire (Robin McKinley): Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, The Dragon Quintet, Harrowing the Dragon, Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy, The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, Classic Fairy Tales, Horse Fantastic, Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, The Wicked Wood, Wings of Fire

Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060555351
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents a riveting collection of unpredictable tales, including:

* A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly called upon to defeat a horrific Beast.

* When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to life, and she must protect her home...
The Dragon Quintet
AuthorMarvin Kaye
ISBN0765349116
Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors.

Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power.

Mercedes...
Harrowing the Dragon
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441014437
A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For 25 years, she's drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern-day fables with a grace rarely seen. Now she presents a book of previously uncollected short stories, full...
Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy
AuthorJack Dann
ISBN0425215180
Never-before-published stories by Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer, Garth Nix, and a magical lineup of writers.

Throughout the ages, the wizard has claimed a spot in human culture-from the shadowy spiritual leaders of early man to precocious characters in blockbuster films. Gone are the cartoon...
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0670011452
What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In "The Beastly Bride," acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen,...
Classic Fairy Tales
AuthorScott Gustafson
This exquisitely illustrated, large format gift book features ten of the most enduring fairy tales of all time. The stories, chosen and edited by the artist, are a balance of 'princess' classics and frolicking adventure tales.

Artist Scott Gustafson spent more than four years creating the...
Horse Fantastic
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0886775043
part of this anthology: Silverdown's Gold - 5 stars

Trionn the scullion could never pause anywhere for more than a minute without attracting a heap of cats. It did not matter wether his clothes reeked of the midden on those days when he raked out the garbage, or if he was simply sitting, huddled...
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand
AuthorLouise Hawes
ISBN0618747974
“ . . . and they lived happily ever after.” Remember the fairy tales you put away after you found that no princess is as beautiful as common sense and happy endings are just the beginning?

Well, the old tales are back, and they’ve grown up! Black Pearls brings you the stories of your childhood,...
The Wicked Wood
AuthorIsobelle Carmody
I didn't find this short story collection as engaging as the first one, The Wilful Eye. Both collections were mixed bags, as is to be expected with a collection of its ilk, but this one had more miss than hit stories for me.

I really loved Seventy Two Derwents by Cate Kennedy with its distinctly...
Wings of Fire
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801879
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most...
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
AuthorSharyn November
ISBN0142405523
First Firebirds. Then Firebirds Rising. Now there is Firebirds Soaring, the third anthology of original stories by some of today?s finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. These authors, including Nancy Farmer (The Sea of Trolls), Ellen Klages (The Green Glass Sea), Margo Lanagan (Black Juice),...
The Best of Kage Baker
AuthorKage Baker
ISBN1596064420
Kage Baker’s death in 2010 silenced one of the most distinctive, consistently engaging voices in contemporary fiction. A late starter, Baker published her first short stories in 1997, at the age of forty-five. From then until the end of her life, she wrote prolifically and well, leaving an astonishing...
Earth and Air
AuthorPeter Dickinson
ISBN1618730584
In these collection, you will find stories that range from the mythic to contemporary fantasy to science fiction. You will find a troll, gryphons, a beloved dog, the Land of the Dead, an owl, a minotaur, and a very alien Cat. Earth and Air is the third and final book in a trilogy of shared collections connected...
Faery!
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0441225640
1 • A Troll and Two Roses • Patricia A. McKillip
13 • The Thirteenth Fey • Jane Yolen
25 • Lullaby for a Changeling • (1976) • Nicholas Stuart Gray
43 • Brat • (1941) • Theodore Sturgeon
61 • Wild Garlic • William F. Wu
79 • The Stranger • (1978) • Shulamith...
After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar
AuthorJoshua Palmatier
ISBN0756406595
Science fiction and fantasy readers have long shown an affinity for a good "bar story". Now some of today's most inventive scriveners have decided to tell their own tall tales-from an alewife's attempt to transfer the gods' curse to Gilgamesh, to Odin's decision to introduce Vikings to the Ur-Bar,...
Erekos
AuthorA.M. Tuomala
ISBN1936460033
Tuomala has some of the most lush, evocative prose I've had the pleasure to read in awhile. It's a little strangely formal in some places, but the story moves with a dreamlike rhythm through a densely imagined world. Most of the characters manage to sidestep many of the tired tropes that plague high fantasy,...
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