Of Sorrow and Such

9 best books like Of Sorrow and Such (Angela Slatter): Silver in the Wood, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Passing Strange, The Monster of Elendhaven, The Terracotta Bride, A Taste of Honey, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime, Camp Red Moon

Silver in the Wood

Author	Emily Tesh
ISBN	1250229790

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.

When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely...

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

Author

Margaret Killjoy

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however: things went awry after the town’s residents...

Passing Strange

Author	Ellen Klages
ISBN	0765389517

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic”...

The Monster of Elendhaven

Author

Jennifer Giesbrecht

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats....

The Terracotta Bride

Author

Zen Cho

A tale of first love, bad theology and robot reincarnation in the Chinese afterlife.

In the tenth court of hell, spirits wealthy enough to bribe the bureaucrats of the underworld can avoid both the torments of hell and the irreversible change of reincarnation.

It's a comfortable...

A Taste of Honey

Author

Kai Ashante Wilson

Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.

Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Author	Kai Ashante Wilson
ISBN	0765385244

Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned...

Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime

Author

Claire Harman

A gripping investigation into the crime that scandalized literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray.

On a spring morning in 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with...

Camp Red Moon

Author

R.L. Stine

Creepy fun for ages 9-12!

Camp nights or camp frights?!

Every sleepaway camp promises memories that last a lifetime. But the memories from Camp Red Moon might give you nightmares!

• The campfire appears to dim when the moon turns blood red and strange creatures prowl the...