The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth

5 best books like The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth (James N. Frey): A Study in Emerald, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons, Four Quartets, HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, and Other Adamic Stories

A Study in Emerald

Author

Neil Gaiman

Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award-winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman.

A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting...

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	0896214400

"Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption is subtitled 'Hope Springs Eternal' - and that perfectly sums up the soul of his book.



It's hope that keeps you going - even after everything horrible...

Four Quartets

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0571068944

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...

HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!

Author	Mykle Hansen
ISBN	1933929693

absolutely. lets be honest, this is a book you buy for the cover, initially. but behold: its actually well-written!! this is the most unsympathetic character ive read since dostoevskys the adolescent, but its a hoot, and i didnt want to throw the book even once, which i did with the adolescent. thats...

The Diaries of Adam and Eve, and Other Adamic Stories

Author	Mark Twain
ISBN	1843910055

"Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself," notes Adam in his diary, adding, "The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here."
Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her, as she names the animals, discovers fire,...