Knight's Wyrd
10 best books like Knight's Wyrd (Debra Doyle): Something Rich and Strange, The Dark Garden, Revival - Deluxe Collection. Volume 2, Unicorn Mountain, In the Dark: A Horror Anthology, A Midsummer Tempest, A Woman of the Iron People, Owl in Love, The Innamorati, The Wind-Witch
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 1596871261 |
They have lived among us for centuries—distant, separate, just out of sight. They fill our myths, our legends, and the stories we tell our children in the dark of night. They come from the air, from water, from earth, and from fire. What are these creatures that enjoin out imagination? Faeries.
Something...
| Author | Margaret Buffie |
| ISBN | 1553370910 |
In this Gothic novel by award-winner Margaret Buffie, 16-year-old Thea is suffering from traumatic amnesia. As she returns home and begins to rediscover who she is, the empty places of her mind fill up with shadowy memories. When she begins to hear voices from the past, she must find out what these ghosts...
| Author | Tim Seeley |
| ISBN | 1632151022 |
For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress...
| Author | Michael Bishop |
| ISBN | 0553279041 |
Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels' mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from a plague of their own,...
In the Dark: A Horror Anthology
| Author | Rachel Autumn Deering |
| ISBN | 1613779348 |
As a backer of this anthology collection on Kickstarter, I may well be biased, but this is a generally excellent collection of 24 short horror stories told by a mixture of familiar and new names in the horror comics field, separated by dated adverts that evoke feelings of yesteryear when comics like Tales...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812530799 |
"What if Shakespeare were a historian & his world a mortal one of men & elves? Somewhere, spinning thru another universe is a history almost like ours except for the result of a revolution or two & the earlier incidence of a few inventions. A prince called Hamlet has lived in Denmark. The English...
| Author | Eleanor Arnason |
| ISBN | 0759224161 |
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring...
| Author | Patrice Kindl |
| ISBN | 0618439102 |
I am in love with Mr. Lindstrom, my science teacher. I found out where he lives and every night I perch on a tree branch outside his bedroom window and watch him sleep. He sleeps in his underwear: Fruit of the Loom, size 34.
Owl Tycho, the shape-shifting daughter of "simple witches", is a high school student...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0312861974 |
A brilliant fantasy novel set in an alternate Renaissance VeniceDo you know the city Labirinto?
The blind know it, and the frustrated in love know it; the barren women, the silenced poets, the drunken priests, the stuttering actors -- all the unfortunates who suffer from cursed lives. They...
| Author | Susan Dexter |
| ISBN | 0345387708 |
Book Two of "The Warhorse of Esdragon"
Faithful wife to a small landholder, Druyan had lived her life in other people's shadows. And if she could sometimes hold the clouds at bay or whistle up a wind, Druyan made sure to keep that talent to herself. Then war came, and Druyan found herself a widow, with...
| Author | Dia Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0374404542 |
On the island of Normost, in the kingdom of Windward, 13-year-old Cerinthe Gale is a folk healer who dreams of being a dancer. When her mother falls ill, Cerinthe fights to save her -- but fails. She blames herself for her mother's death, gives up healing, and decides to pursue dance. Cerinthe travels...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 0452272262 |
You never know with obscure fantasy novels, especially those written by women, whose works are still too often unjustly ignored. There are some hidden gems out there. (Here, have some recs: Firethorn. The Secrets of Jin-shei. Fudoki.) And then there are the books that are forgotten for good reason....
| Author | Evangeline Walton |
| ISBN | 0020264739 |
The Song of Rhiannon, a retelling of the Third Branch of the Mabinogion, isn't as powerful as The Children of Llyr, which is a relief, in a way. There's a time of healing for the characters, as well as what they suffer during the action of the story, and there's a happy end for them as well. It continues to follow...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152052119 |
The story may be simple, but the language is poetic and moving.
The overall plot of The Young Merlin Trilogy followers the titular wizard from his reintroduction to society after living in the wild, to the realization of his dreams and magic. The story is split into three parts: Passager, in...
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1595826742 |
Wow. I am impressed. Lord Baltimore and the Curse Bells was amazing. This is my second volume of the Lord Baltimore books and I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the first.
Lord Baltimore is still on the hunt of Haigus the elder vampire. This time his hunt takes him into Switzerland and Austria....
| Author | R.D. Henham |
| ISBN | 0786949724 |
What happens when an evil black dragon becomes your ally?
Snatched from the street by a young black dragon, Satia seems destined to end her life as a snack. But her position as a menu item quickly changes when her black dragon captor runs into two young red dragons and a wanna-be Dragonlord. In...
| Author | Joy Chant |
| ISBN | 0345021789 |
When I was a young girl Joy Chant was part of the triarchy from whom I bought and read everything I could get my hands on (the other two being Joan D. Vinge and Elizabeth A. Lynn). So I thought it was about time after all those years to get re-acquainted with my childhood dreams.
As things turned out...
| Author | Catherine Fisher |
| ISBN | 0060724706 |
It starts when Cal gets off the train at the wrong stop in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere. He's stranded. Following a muddy path leads him to a castle that appears to be deserted. But inside is Corbenic, a magnificent hotel filled with rich people preparing for a banquet and Cal is their...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0440415969 |
"Steer clear of that ship," warns the mysterious gentleman who shares a coach with John and his father. "Death she'll bring you," says the man. "It's the way of a ship that was christened with blood."
This is an ominous introduction to the schooner John is about to be entrusted with for a voyage...
| Author | Lisa Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1616960140 |
An ages-old family secret breaches the boundaries between reality and magic in this fresh retelling of a classic fairy tale. When Berkeley student Will Taylor is introduced to the mysterious Feierabend sisters, he quickly falls for enigmatic Livvy, a chemistry major and accomplished chef. But...
Not On My Patch: A Young Wizards Halloween
Just another Hallowe'en in the Young Wizards universe...
In this 14,000-word novelette, written for UNICEF's 60th annual "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" campaign, we tag along with Nita Callahan, Kit Rodriguez, Ronan Nolan, and Dairine Callahan as they do a little overage Trick or Treating...
| Author | Mary H. Herbert |
| ISBN | 1560760788 |
Follow up to Dark Horse, and not as good. Atleast to me.
Probably because there are elements that I've seen being used and abused in fiction, and have come to dislike them. They're not overdone here (so far; about halfway through).
For example: one girl, two suitors, the old and new;...
