The Fair Folk

10 best books like The Fair Folk (Marvin Kaye): Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, Something Rich and Strange, Bad Ass Faeries, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy, Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Enchanted Forests, Waifs and Strays, Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Happily Ever After

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Author

Greg Ketter

Bookstores are the greatest places on earth, yet there's never been an anthology devoted just to them. Here are sixteen stories, fourteen original to this anthology, each of which includes a bookstore at its core. Science fiction, fantasy and horror. Authors included are David Bischoff, P.D. Cacek,...

Something Rich and Strange

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...

Bad Ass Faeries

Author	Danielle Ackley-McPhail
ISBN	1606592041

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...

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	0142404063

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over--benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have...

Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

Author	Andrew M. Greeley
ISBN	0765305046

Mythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today's finest authors.
Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and nowhere is that more true than in its folktales and legends. From the great Celtic myths featuring the bard Taliesin,...

Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy

Author	Jack Dann
ISBN	0425215180

Never-before-published stories by Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer, Garth Nix, and a magical lineup of writers.

Throughout the ages, the wizard has claimed a spot in human culture-from the shadowy spiritual leaders of early man to precocious characters in blockbuster films. Gone are the cartoon...

Enchanted Forests

Author	Katharine Kerr
ISBN	0886776724

The enchanted forest is a place both terrifying and inviting, a region where monsters lurk and treasure may be found, a world peopled by evil witches and wise hermits, woodcutters and hunters, enchanted creatures and those of elfinkind. Here are 25 tales created especially for this volume by some of...

Waifs and Strays

Author	Charles de Lint
ISBN	0142401587

Charles de Lint's remarkable novels and shorter fiction are, in a very real sense, coming of age stories. Here, for the first time, is a collection of his stories about teenagers&150a collection for teen and adult readers alike. From the streets of his famed Newford to the alleys of Bordertown to...

Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy

Author	Al Sarrantonio
ISBN	0451459776

Now, Sarrantonio presents another daring, all-new anthology showcasing some of the genre's biggest names and best newcomers. "Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy" sets the standard for fantasy in the twenty-first century. Fantasy as literature. Fantasy that reinvigorates and expands the field's...

Happily Ever After

Author	John Klima
ISBN	1597802204

Once Upon A Time...

...in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking...

And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land...

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy

Author	Ekaterina Sedia
ISBN	0979624606

This anthology of 21 original fantasy stories explores humanity’s most dynamic and forceful creation—the city. Featuring tales from fantasy heavyweights such as Hal Duncan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, and Barth Anderson, the collection whisks readers from dizzying rooftop perches...

Magic in the Mirrorstone

Author	Steve Berman
ISBN	0786947322

In this anthology for teen readers, fifteen best-selling and acclaimed authors--including Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci, Cassandra Clare, Eugie Foster, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Gregory Frost--weave all-new stories filled with magic. Comic and dark, epic and entertaining, these stories will...

The Book of Ballads

Author	Charles Vess
ISBN	0765312158

In this graphic novel, Charles Vess illustrates many traditional folk ballads that have been rewritten by some fairly popular fantasy artists like Neil Gaiman or Emma Bull.

I didn't realize how many traditional ballads have negative interactions with strangers as their primary topic....

Wings of Fire

Author	Jonathan Strahan
ISBN	1597801879

Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most...

The Magic Shop

Author	Denise Little
ISBN	0756401739

An anthology of 15 stories whose themes revolve around a magic shop. This is a nice collection as the stories vary greatly.

Susan Sizemore’s Every Little Thing She Does is a cute romance between a mundane and the owner of a not-too-successful magic shop in Scotland. Overtly, the stubborn...

Faery!

Author	Terri Windling
ISBN	0441225640

1 • A Troll and Two Roses • Patricia A. McKillip
13 • The Thirteenth Fey • Jane Yolen
25 • Lullaby for a Changeling • (1976) • Nicholas Stuart Gray
43 • Brat • (1941) • Theodore Sturgeon
61 • Wild Garlic • William F. Wu
79 • The Stranger • (1978) • Shulamith...

Elf Fantastic

Author	Martin H. Greenberg
ISBN	0886777364

An anthology of 19 stories about elves. Tall slender elves and small bearded elves, elven Lords and elven layabouts, elves in faerie and elves in our world, fairy tales and fantasy stories. There were a couple of weaker stories but on the whole this was an interesting and varied bunch of stories. My favourites...