The Golden
10 best books like The Golden (Lucius Shepard): The Etched City, The Little Drummer Girl, Anno Dracula, City of Saints and Madmen, The Death of the Necromancer, Canada, The Element of Fire, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, The Pastel City, A Scattering of Jades
| Author | K.J. Bishop |
| ISBN | 0553382918 |
Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just--and lost--causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts...
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 0671042785 |
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
In this thrilling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue,...
| Author | Kim Newman |
| ISBN | 0857680838 |
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes...
City of Saints and Madmen
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0553383574 |
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor....
| Author | Martha Wells |
| ISBN | 0380788144 |
Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien... On the gas light streets of the city, he assumes the guise of a master...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0061692042 |
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later."
When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold...
| Author | Martha Wells |
| ISBN | 0615135714 |
The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safety of the realm. But now Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific...
| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1406905747 |
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories....
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0385082630 |
The first book in the Viriconium series: In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ruins of a technology that destroyed itself. Armored knights ride their horses across dunes of rust, battling for the honor of the Queen. But the knights find more to menace them than mere swords and lances....
| Author | Alexander C. Irvine |
| ISBN | 0765340984 |
The great fire of 1835 burned most of New York City’s wooden downtown and, like many others, Archie Prescott thinks he’s lost all that’s dear to him. His home is a smoldering ruin and his wife is dead--and next to her body is a child’s corpse he assumes was his daughter. It seems as though it’s...
