The Stone Book Quartet
10 best books like The Stone Book Quartet (Alan Garner): The Story of Hong Gildong, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, The Passion According to G.H., The Falling Woman, Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams, Compulsory Games, The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories, The Sacred Era, Unclay, A Cidade Sitiada
The Story of Hong Gildong
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0143107690 |
The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart, Robin Hood, it has been adapted into countless movies, television shows, novels and comics. Its memorable lines are known to virtually every Korean by heart. Until now, this...
| Author | Pu Songling |
| ISBN | 0140447407 |
The title, and the fact that this is a Penguin classic, attracted me. I really, really enjoyed this read. The stories were quite short, some only a paragraph in length, and the longest ones being perhaps 4-5 pages. And they were strange indeed, strange is definitely an understatement. They were very...
The Passion According to G.H.
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 0816617120 |
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...
| Author | Pat Murphy |
| ISBN | 0312854064 |
Elizabeth Waters, an archaeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archaeological discoveries and the realization that she might...
| Author | C.L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0575074175 |
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...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1681371898 |
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 1931520747 |
Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym...
| Author | Yoshio Aramaki |
| ISBN | 0816699860 |
The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and part dream narrative. In a distant future ruled by a new Papal Court serving...
In UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Little Dodder with instructions to ‘unclay’ two of its inhabitants. Unfortunately for him, Death loses the divine chit bearing the names of the doomed pair, and is obliged to stay in Little Dodder until...
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 8532508731 |
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.
A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
Viata si opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter
The best thing about this incredible book is the translation by the author’s widow, Adriana Calinescu, and the great German-to-English translator Breon Mitchell. The translation is pitch perfect, keeping the wildness under control while making the dryness enjoyable. Short chapters get across...
| Author | Ken Greenhall |
| ISBN | 0890833036 |
"What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? ... What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?"
Baxter is a sociopathic bull terrier who is on the hunt for his perfect...
| Author | William Kotzwinkle |
| ISBN | 1569247285 |
Second read by Kotzwinkle. He continues to impress me in a sort of understated fashion. Much like Fata Morgana, this one had occult/magic undertones, though much subtler. On the flip side, the twisted ending here was much stronger. The story is a take of hallucinative disassociation/metempsychosis/split...
