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7 best books like The Dark World (Henry Kuttner): The Children of Húrin, Elric of Melniboné, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Bane of the Black Sword, The Weird of the White Wolf, Chasers, Survivor

The Children of Húrin
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0007246226
Tolkien fans are sure to treasure this tale of Middle-earth's First Age, which appeared in incomplete forms in the posthumously published The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. Those earlier books, also edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher, only hinted at the depth and power of the tragic story...
Elric of Melniboné
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441203981
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody....He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery...
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0586208771
Holy crap! I, Mark Lawrence, have read an entire book in 4 hours!

Admittedly I picked it up after discovering that it was only 24,000 words long, or 1/2oth of a George Martin epic.

EDIT: over the long grind of this summer holiday I've been writing a "short" story that I'm being paid to write...
The Bane of the Black Sword
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441048854

This slim fifth volume of the Elric saga contains four separate novellas, the first three starring our princely albino hero and the fourth featuring one of his old companions, Rachir the Red Archer, now Defender of Tanelorn.

The three Elric tales are all fine adventures, and rather sunny...
The Weird of the White Wolf
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441888054
"We must be bound to one another then. Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then - let it be thus so - and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melnibone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind - produced by an age which has deserted...
Chasers
AuthorJames Phelan
The trip of a lifetime just turned into the end of the world.

When Jesse crawls out of the wreckage of a subway car and emerges into daylight, he’s greeted by a living nightmare. An unexplained force has destroyed New York City, turning skyscrapers into ash, cutting off all power and communication....
Survivor
AuthorJames Phelan
ISBN0758280688
Personal response
I thought that this book was a very intriguing. This book had a lot of suspenseful moments.

Plot
Jesse was still in the same building as he was in the last book when he was hiding from the chasers. He was in an apartment that had a video recorder that said someone was there...
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