In the Forest of Forgetting
10 best books like In the Forest of Forgetting (Theodora Goss): The Twisted Ones, Growing Things and Other Stories, Magic for Beginners, Minor Mage, The Orphans of Raspay, Triquetra, Hexarchate Stories, Stranger Things Happen, We Never Talk about My Brother, Map of Dreams
| Author | T. Kingfisher |
| ISBN | 1534429573 |
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer:...
Growing Things and Other Stories
| Author | Paul Tremblay |
| ISBN | 0062679147 |
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 0156031876 |
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut, Stranger Things Happen: effervescent blends of quirky humor and pathos that transform stock themes of genre fiction into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy. In "Stone Animals," a house's haunting...
Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day.
He only knew three spells, and one of them was to control his allergy to armadillo dander. His attempts to summon elementals resulted in nosebleeds, and there is nothing more embarrassing than having your elemental...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between Snow White and her stepmother after Snow White has married the prince and has her own child. She visits her stepmother monthly promising to kill her in ever more horrible ways, at the same time attempting...
| Author | Yoon Ha Lee |
| ISBN | 1781085641 |
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.
An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon...
A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent...
A renegade returns from seclusion to bury...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 1931520003 |
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve...
We Never Talk about My Brother
Modern parables of love, death, and transformation are peppered with melancholy in this extraordinary collection of contemporary fantasy. Each short story cultivates a whimsical sense of imagination and reveals a mature, darker voice than previously experienced from this legendary author....
| Author | M. Rickert |
| ISBN | 1930846444 |
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics
| Author | E.B. White |
| ISBN | 1435145976 |
For more than half a century, E. B. White's novel Charlotte's Web has charmed readers with its account of Charlotte, the resourceful spider, and the love and friendship she brings to her farmyard friends. Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics collects in a single volume all of E. B. White's...
Dracula and Other Horror Stories
| Author | Bram Stoker |
| ISBN | 1435142810 |
Dracula and Other Horror Classics collects the most memorable tales of horror by Bram Stoker. In addition to Dracula--the landmark vampire novel that set the pattern for virtually all vampire fiction written after its publication in 1897--this omnibus collects the novels The Jewel of Seven Stars...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
| Author | Hilda D. Spear |
| ISBN | 0333372867 |
I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...
| Author | Jennifer Foehner Wells |
Earth’s days are numbered.
Two very different women race to prepare for the battle to come. The future of Earth is in their hands.
One struggles to resurrect her ruined ship so she can navigate the politics at the galactic core in a desperate bid to recruit allies.
The other...
”Lula pulled Sailor over to her and kissed him soft on the mouth. ‘You move me, Sailor, you really do,’ she said. ‘You mark me the deepest.’”
Sailor Ripley has just stepped out of prison from serving time for a bullshit manslaughter charge. One of those convictions that...
In the aftermath of the events seen in Ghosts of Karnak, and with the political climate somewhat eased, Gabriel takes Ginny to London by airship to recuperate. But he isn’t counting on coming face-to-face with a man who claims to embody the spirit of Albion itself, sinister forces gathering in the...
Rivers of London: Body Work, #1
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Peter Grant is one of only two members of a very special branch of London's Metropolitan Police. He is, in fact, pretty much a wizard and it's his job to investigate those shadowy crimes that involve urban vampires, weird folk in the underground and,...
The Ghost Train to New Orleans
| Author | Mur Lafferty |
| ISBN | 0316221147 |
Could you find a museum for a monster?
Or a jazz bar for a jabberwock?
Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too—her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans...
