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10 best books like Land of Unreason (L. Sprague de Camp): The Blue Star, Hrolf Kraki's Saga, Bad Ass Faeries, Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Hyperborea, The Silver Stallion, The Song of Rhiannon, The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis

The Blue Star
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345298527
Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star…and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant...
Hrolf Kraki's Saga
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0671654268
Poul Anderson has long been known for his love affair with the legends and myths of the great Norse heroes. Coordinating, translating, re-telling the scattered heroic literature could only be the work of a scholar and a lover of the genre. That Mr. Anderson also happens to be a talented writer is our great...
Bad Ass Faeries
AuthorDanielle Ackley-McPhail
ISBN1606592041
Clap Your Hands...NOW! Because you better believe the world is full of Bad-Ass Faeries! Toss out your childhood notions of faeries that are all goodness and light. No golden pixies clothed in gossamer, dancing on the wind, here to make the rainbows shine and the birds sing. These tales are of faeries...
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
AuthorLord Dunsany
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element...
Hyperborea
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0345022068
Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy.

Contents:

"Introduction" (Lin Carter)
Hyperborea
"The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
"The Seven Geases"
"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
"The White Sybil"
"The Testament of Athammaus"
"The Coming of the...
The Silver Stallion
AuthorJames Branch Cabell
ISBN0345280725
as my compulsive consumption of cabell continues (this has been in my purse a month now and this is my third re-read), i have been alerted to the fact that i am reading these books "out of order" though it hardly seems to matter. i will say that it seems the more you read cabell, the more intertextualities...
The Song of Rhiannon
AuthorEvangeline Walton
ISBN0020264739
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...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1557423954
The Glen Carrig, a sailing ship hits an unseen, large, sharp rock just under the surface of this uncharted ocean in 1757, the survivors of the disastrous sinking float for five days, their precious food supply diminishing, (and hope fades) in two lifeboats, on the sixth a tremendous storm strikes the...
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
AuthorErnest Bramah
ISBN1587152096
Kai Lung's Golden Hours By Ernest Bramah. Preface: Hilaire Belloc. Man is born to make. His business is to construct; to plan; to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end and in which it is far easier to neglect it...
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis
AuthorCharles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
ISBN0330239465
This obscure adventure novel, though popular in its time, is quite entertaining, not exactly literature and that term has been greatly overused, a yardstick... if you like H. Rider Haggard who influenced this author, you'll have an enjoyable read. To me a book is good or bad anything else is superfluous...The...
Red Moon and Black Mountain
AuthorJoy Chant
ISBN0345021789
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...
The Mezentian Gate
AuthorE.R. Eddison
ISBN0345272218
OK, this one is also complicated ... Not so much the broad strokes of the story, this time, though; rather, it's the structure of the book. Unfortunately, Eddison died before completing it; fortunately, he did leave enough notes to allow the book to be understandable even in partial form. Apparently,...
The Dragon's Banner
AuthorJay Allan
ISBN0615738133
The empire that ruled the world is crumbling, and darkness is falling. Cities burn, armies pillage, and warlords struggle for domination. In the shadow of Rome's fall, the land of Britannia is divided and bleeding.

Uther Pendragon and his allies journey to the heart of the dying empire, lead...
The Sundering Flood
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN0345032616
At about the 2/3 mark I started to reconsider what this was about. It is clearly in the vein of a chivalrous romance, its events and adventures unspooling as though from a storyteller's tongue, all sort of strung together and barely contained by the basic frame of Osberne's courtly romance with Elfhild...
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