The Midnight Bell
10 best books like The Midnight Bell (Francis Lathom): Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Thief of Time, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Immortal Hulk, Volume 3: Hulk In Hell, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 2: Doctor Aphra and the Enormous Profit, The Eternal Champion, The Final Programme, Galactic Empires 1, The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
| Author | Marlon James |
| ISBN | 0735220174 |
In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0061031321 |
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.
And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater -- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.
But the construction...
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0374504938 |
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who...
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0006280838 |
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion to Christianity. The book overall contains less detail concerning specific events than typical autobiographies. This is because his purpose in writing wasn't primarily historical. His aim was...
Immortal Hulk, Volume 3: Hulk In Hell
| Author | Al Ewing |
| ISBN | 1302915061 |
Jackie McGee is in Hell. Carl Creel is in hell. Walter Langkowski is in Hell. Eugene Judd is in Hell. Carl Burbank is in Hell. Los Diablos is in Hell. Shadow Base is in Hell. New Mexico is in Hell. Planet Earth is in Hell. We are all in Hell... and so is the IMMORTAL HULK. It whispers through many mouths. It destroys...
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 2: Doctor Aphra and the Enormous Profit
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1302907638 |
Aphra's back with a brand-new plan that's guaranteed to pay! There's just one teensy problem... it involves surrounding herself with some of the galaxy's biggest baddies. And they don't like the not-so-good doctor's tricks! Her mission to make quick credits by auctioning off an ancient Jedi artifact...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0425095622 |
You are John Daker. You are a resident of 20th century Earth. You are a sophisticated, intelligent fellow - urbane, socially conscious, left-leaning. You do not believe in binary thinking; you do not believe in Good vs. Evil. You do not support war; you don't even know how to use a weapon.
You...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0839823355 |
Jerry Cornelius is a scientist, a rock star, and an assassin. He is the hippest adventurer of them all: tripping through a pop art nightmare in which kidnappings, murder, sex and drugs are a daily occurrence. Along with his savvy and ruthless partner-in-chaos, Miss Brunner, Cornelius is on a mission...
Been a Long Time (Lafferty), The Possessed (Clarke), Protected Psecies (Fyfe), All the Way Back (Shaara), The Star Plunderer (Anderson), Foundation (Asimov), We're Civilized! (Clifton and Apostolides), The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal (Smith), The Rebel of Valkyr (Coppel), Brightness...
| Author | Robert Kirk |
| ISBN | 1590171772 |
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology." — Times Literary Supplement
In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking...
| Author | Karl Friedrich Kahlert |
| ISBN | 0979233224 |
"The hurricane was howling, the hailstones beating against windows, the hoarse croaking of the raven bidding adieu to autumn, and the weather-cock's dismal creaking joined with the mournful dirge of the solitary owl..." "The Necromancer" consists of a series of interconnected stories, all centering...
| Author | Eleanor Sleath |
| ISBN | 1409948099 |
Eleanor Sleath was a British author wellknown for her 1798 novel The Orphan of the Rhine. The novel, subtitled A Romance, was published in four volumes. It was listed as one of the seven "horrid novels" by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey. It was part of a brief but popular vogue of German tales,...
| Author | Regina Maria Roche |
| ISBN | 0976604841 |
This review cannot come at a more perfect time because not only did I finish a brillisnt classic but I am writing a review for it on my spankin' new laptop. Clermont was one of the mos beautiful books I haveever read. The emotions, the character, the plot development was all carried out in such an honest,...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0062565397 |
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.
C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell,...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 5
| Author | Akira Himekawa |
| ISBN | 1974705641 |
Link must defeat evil at every turn in his perilous quest to help Princess Zelda!
Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards’ power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the Twilight Realm beyond the Mirror of Twilight....
Batman, Volume 9: The Tyrant Wing
| Author | Tom King |
| ISBN | 1401288448 |
The next chapter of Bruce Wayne's life is in full swing, and just as expected, it's a bumpy ride! What challenges lie ahead for the Dark Knight? One thing is for sure, when it is all said and done, Batman's life will be altered forever! The question is whether it's for better or worse.
The next installment...
Doom Patrol, Volume 1: Brick by Brick
| Author | Gerard Way |
| ISBN | 1401269796 |
The spirit of Grant Morrison's groundbreaking Doom Patrol is captured in this debut series starring the cult-favorite misfits as a part of Gerard Way's new Young Animal imprint.
Flex Mentallo, Robotman, Rebis, Crazy Jane, and more are back to twist minds and take control. This new take on a classic...
Doom Patrol, Volume 2: Nada
| Author | Gerard Way |
| ISBN | 1401275001 |
Gerard Way's Young Animal flagship title continues its monumental run here with DOOM PATROL VOL. 2!
Flex Mentallo, Robotman, Rebis, Crazy Jane and more are back to twist minds and take control. The most prevailing question in Vol. 2? What is S**t, and why is everyone eating it? Cliff doesn't...
Godzilla: The Half Century War
| Author | James Stokoe |
| ISBN | 1613775954 |
Introducing a new and exciting look at Godzilla's reign of destruction, courtesy of Orc Stain creator James Stokoe! The year is 1954 and Lieutnant Ota Murakami is on hand when Godzilla makes first landfall in Japan. Along with his pal Kentaro, Ota makes a desperate gamble to save lives... and in the process...
