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The House on the Borderland and Other Novels

10 best books like The House on the Borderland and Other Novels (William Hope Hodgson): The Emperor of Dreams, The Complete Compleat Enchanter, The Mabinogion Tetralogy, The Dragon Waiting, The Well of the Unicorn, Mistress of Mistresses, The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon, The Dragon Griaule, Was, The Green Pearl and Madouc

The Emperor of Dreams
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis...
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0671698095
This omnibus volume brings all five of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's "Compleat Enchanter" tales together in one nearly 500 page volume -- a good thing or bad thing depending on one's perspective, since each one of them is short, and really, light enough, to tempt one towards perusing on into...
The Mabinogion Tetralogy
AuthorEvangeline Walton
ISBN1585675040
The retelling of the epic Welsh myth that is "certainly among the top 5 fantasy series of the twentieth century" (sfsite.com).

The Mabinogion is to Welsh mythology what the tales of Zeus, Hera, and Apollo are to Greek myth. these tales constitute a powerful work of the imagination, ranking...
The Dragon Waiting
AuthorJohn M. Ford
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The Wars of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England, Lorenzo de' Medici's court shines brilliantly, and Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza plots in Milan. But this is a changed world, and medieval Europe is dominated by the threat from the Byzantine Empire....
The Well of the Unicorn
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345297296
Robbed of lands and heritage by the rapacious Vulkings, young Airar Alvarson had only his limited gift for sorcery to aid him against a world of savage intrigues. Then he met a mysterious sorcerer and was given a strange iron ring -- a ring that led him into a futile conspiracy and soon had him fleeing for...
Mistress of Mistresses
AuthorE.R. Eddison
ISBN0575072849
The second volume in the fantasy classic most often compared with J.R.R. Tolkien

The Worm Ouroboros was the first work from E.R. Eddison that excited deeply felt enthusiasm from figures of literary stature. THE MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES, part of "The Worm" group, has long been unavailable in...
The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN1857987470
Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Collected...
The Dragon Griaule
AuthorLucius Shepard
ISBN1596064560
More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own “by the thinnest margin of possibility.” There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” the classic...
Was
AuthorGeoff Ryman
ISBN0140178724
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. - Dorothy GaleIs that necessarily a bad thing?

We have all had the experience, as kids usually, of seeing something that inspired us. Whether it was to hit a baseball, run faster than anyone else, jump higher, shoot straighter, sing with...
The Green Pearl and Madouc
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0575075171
In Lyonesse: The Green Pearl and Madouc the magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder Isles, the land, long-vanished beneath the ocean, from which King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. In this ancient land the realm of chivalry and the world of faerie exist side by...
Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN0575074175
Jirel of Joiry, the first of the great female warriors, the beautiful commander of the strongest fortress in the kingdom, would face any danger to defend her beloved country. She wielded her bright sword against mighty armies, the sinister magic of evil sorcerers and fearsome castles guarded by the...
The Second Book of Lankhmar
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0575073586
Las espadas de Lankhmar (3/5): un comienzo prometedor a bordo de un barco, con bastante humor y situaciones de pura fantasía. Y tras llegar a la ciudad la fantasía no para, pues un ejército de ratas (de ratas tal como las conocemos) armadas, quiere hacerse con el poder. Me ha recordado mucho a Gotreh...
Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories
AuthorLeigh Brackett
ISBN0575076895
Well, this was quite a hefty collection containing many stories and a couple of novellas, mostly set on Mars or Venus.

In some ways, Leigh Brackett carried on the tradition of swash-buckling adventures in space started by Edgar Rice Burroughs but it's not just more of the same. There is a progression...
Darker Than You Think
AuthorJack Williamson
ISBN0312869924
Who is the child of the night? That's what small-town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding.

Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious...
The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (Dover Horror Classics)
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN0486414299
I'm not quite sure if it happened only once, but I seem to have the memory in my mind of the blind Jorge Luis Borges, whenever an English-speaking visitor came to interview him, asking the visitor to read out loud to him from the work of Rudyard Kipling. As for myself, it has been some years since I've read...
Time And The Gods
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN1857989899
I can scarcely say how much I admire the way Lord Dunsany distills the seizing (and subsequent paralysis) of the mind by an idea, then assaults that hold with some stark realisation. But the characters are never aware of the ironies, they simply play out in the narrative, which is what so successfully...
Voice of Our Shadow
AuthorJonathan Carroll
ISBN0575073675
For Joe Lennox, successful young writer, Vienna provides a refuge from the tragedy of his brother's death, until he starts up a friendship with the eccentric India Tate and her magician husband Paul. Gradually Joe falls in love with India, but Paul finds out - before he suddenly drops dread. And now Joe...
The History of the Runestaff
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0575074698
I wish to address some complaints at the alleged lack of moral ambiguity in the Hawkmoon stories. It is my impression that those complaining feel that the stories lack of moral ambiguity makes them inferior to Moorcock's stories about Elric or other chataters. There is the oft-heard complaint that...
At the Mountains of Madness And Other Tales of Terror
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN9780345394
NIGHTMARE STORIES FROM THE LAND OF TOTAL FEAR

These tales of horror are in the true gothic tradition...full of hinted terrors and unholy stenches - The Guardian

Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. LOVECRAFT produced works of enduring power. Now gathered...
Votan and Other Novels
AuthorJohn James
ISBN0575105508
Neil Gaiman introduces three classic novels of modern fantasy

In the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is traveling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs among his...
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