Jack, the Giant Killer
10 best books like Jack, the Giant Killer (Charles de Lint): Nobody's Son, A Red Heart of Memories, Tam Lin, Murder of Angels, White as Snow, Finder, Black Swan, White Raven, Hannah's Garden, Fitcher's Brides, The Nightingale
| Author | Sean Stewart |
| ISBN | 0441001289 |
The magical tale of the unhappy things that happen to a hero after "happily ever after".
Suddenly Shielder's Mark is living a fairy tale come true. A commoner's son, he has broken the spell of Red Keep. Now he can collect the hero's reward promised by the king--whatever Mark names. Smitten, he...
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0441007686 |
Matilda "Matt" Black possesses the unique ability to speak with inanimate objects and witness the dreams of other people. Alone, yet never lonely, she s now found a kindred spirit in Edmund Reynolds a wandering witch of a spiritual quest to help those in need.
Together, these two special people...
In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul.
In this version of Tam Lin Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university...
| Author | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| ISBN | 0451459962 |
Ten years ago, Niki Ky and Daria Parker saw something unspeakable in an old house in Birmingham, Alabama. Daria has denied it, escaping into a frantic music career and various addictions. But Niki has not had so many distractions. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she's lost years in a haze of therapy and anti-psychotics....
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0312875495 |
Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .
So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “the Angela Carter of the fantasy field”—a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic.
Arpazia...
| Author | Emma Bull |
| ISBN | 0765347776 |
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Welcome to Bordertown. A hybrid community of misfits, oddballs and runaways. Where humans, elves and halflings coexist. Where magic and the brutal realities of survival clash...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0380975238 |
In their fourth collection of original adult fairy tales written by some of the premier names in literature today, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling transport readers deep into an enchanted forest with a stunning array of magical stories - bringing us the princes...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0142401358 |
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Brittman is looking forward to her violin recital and the prom-- until the hospital calls and she learns that her grandfather, noted mystical painter Daniel Brittman, is dying. Cassie, her mother, Anne, and Anne's new boyfriend travel to the family farm and immediately...
| Author | Gregory Frost |
| ISBN | 0765301954 |
The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth
1843 is the “last year of the world,” according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's...
| Author | Kara Dalkey |
| ISBN | 0441574467 |
In this deft and enchanting retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Kara Dalkey has mixed history and legend, weaving the Andersen fable into a fascinating novel about court life in ancient Japan -- a life of pageantry and poetry, of great beauty and casual cruelty, of life and courtly...
The battle mist overcame Colum now. His knee lifted to drive into Donnan's crotch. As the man bent over in pain, Colum struck him a savage blow across the back of the neck with a closed fist. Donnan dropped like a felled ox and lay still.
But colum wasn't done with him yet. Still cursing, he grabbed...
| Author | Will Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0152052100 |
This YA punk fantasy from the early 1990s, is set in Bordertown, which is on the border between our world and Faerie. It's populated by elves, humans, and halfies. Ron, the human teenage protagonist in the previous book, Elsewhere, has been cursed by an annoyed elf and turned into Wolfboy, half wolf and...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0812522621 |
On the border between the World and Elfland sits Bordertown, a place of half-lit neighborhoods of hidden magic, of flamboyant artists and pagan motorcycle gangs. Bordertown is a hothouse laboratory for the return of magic to the life of the World--and the return of life to magic. It's an attitude and...
The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars
| Author | Steven Brust |
| ISBN | 0312860390 |
Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world.
Once upon a time there was a studio of artists who feared...
