Red Moon and Black Mountain

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	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,...

Author

Lord 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...

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	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	Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN	0345022068

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...

Author	James Branch Cabell
ISBN	0345280725

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...

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	William Morris
ISBN	1419187414

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...

Author	Ernest Bramah
ISBN	1587152096

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...

Author	Michael Frayn
ISBN	0140040633

An utter delight.

Even though it was written in the 1970s, it still feels completely fresh & topical today. It's a lovely, optimistic satire of man & covers many of the Big Ideas. I know when Life of Pi was so very popular, various reviews said it would affirm/renew your faith in God (a...

Author	Lisa Goldstein
ISBN	0553050907

I can’t remember how I found out about this novel, presumably a list of recommendations somewhere? The combination of surrealists, dreams, time travel, and revolution had obvious appeal and the library didn't have it, so I bought a cheap copy off eBay. Unfortunately I think it had been stored in a...

Author	Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
ISBN	0330239465

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...

Author	Patrick O'Leary
ISBN	0312864035

A story within a story, The Gift is a story of innocence betrayed and magic rejected. Tim is robbed of his childhood, and Simon is tormented by hearing made too acute. Both are victims of The Usher of the Night, once a boy like them, now pathetically twisted by his own ambition and by Tomen, a malevolent creature...

Author	Josefine Ottesen
ISBN	8762686542

Jeg kender Fjeren og Rosen fra min tid i 3.klasse hvor vores klasselære læste bogen højt for os i frokostpauserne. Jeg husker vi var så betaget af bogen og var altid ivrige efter at høre næste kapitel. Historien om den unge konge, der møder den smukke hejrepige Ea fra fuglelandet betaget os alle...

Author	Thomas Burnett Swann
ISBN	0583123945

Lost Monsters

Thea watched their torch-bearing captors recede into the distance and leave them to the cave's darkness. Her brother Icarus whispered "forgive me - I wanted to come to the Country of the Beasts, not to the Cave of the Minotaur".

Then they heard the soft padding of feet...

Author	Phyllis Eisenstein
ISBN	0345276426

"This is the story about a boy whose mother is a sorceress who uses spiders to make magic. The boy does not know his father and was told he died. He goes in search for him and to learn about himself. He does not want to be a sorcerer, but a knight like his father. He does not know that his father was really a sorcerer....

Author	Brian Moore
ISBN	0452278678

When an appalling boating accident off the coast of Nice allegedly kills Dr. Alex Davenport, his attractive young wife Marie finds herself in the ironic position of widow of a husband she had been planning to leave for another man. But Alex's body suddenly disappears from the morgue, and his plane ticket...

Author	Brian W. Aldiss
ISBN	0061000639

Charmed Malacia! In the wilderness beyond its fortress walls, in dreary chasm, tangled forest, or endless mountainside, the forces of many kinds of evil struggled for supremacy. Within our winding streets serenity seemed to prevail.

"seemed" is the key word in this brief introduction...

Author	Jane Yolen
ISBN	0441091660

Jane Yolen’s award-winning story about an alien civilization forever changed by the incursion of human social scientists and a mysterious ancient prophecy

The year is 2132 when members of the Anthropologist’s Guild set down on the planet Henderson’s IV, or L’Lal’lor as it is...