The Wood Wife

10 best books like The Wood Wife (Terri Windling): War for the Oaks, Something Rich and Strange, Lagoon, The Twisted Ones, Tam Lin, Riddley Walker, The Orphans of Raspay, Dreams Underfoot, Thomas the Rhymer, Snow White, Blood Red

AuthorEmma Bull
ISBN0765349159
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.

Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But she's breaking up with her boyfriend, her band just...
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN1596871261
They have lived among us for centuries—distant, separate, just out of sight. They fill our myths, our legends, and the stories we tell our children in the dark of night. They come from the air, from water, from earth, and from fire. What are these creatures that enjoin out imagination? Faeries.

Something...
Lagoon
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1444762753
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against...
The Twisted Ones
AuthorT. Kingfisher
ISBN1534429573
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?

Answer:...
AuthorPamela Dean
In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul.

In this version of Tam Lin Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university...
Riddley Walker
AuthorRussell Hoban
ISBN0253212340
Fionnuala wrote: "Ah, you wouldn't be 'fixing' it, not, but you know that of course!
No, you'd be doing an interesting exercise for yourself, maybe for me who'd be curious to read your 'transliteration', even a pag..."

Alan is sure it would be ruined but he's a writer, who aren't necessarily...
The Orphans of Raspay
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
Dreams Underfoot
AuthorCharles de Lint
ISBN0765306794
Welcome to Newford…

Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering...
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553586971
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
Snow White, Blood Red
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0380718758
Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children... But no longer.

You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Masters of Photography Series
AuthorPhoto Poche
ISBN0893817449
Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done--the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer who--with the new, smaller, hand-held cameras and...
The Wild Wood
AuthorCharles de Lint
ISBN0765302586
3.5 stars

This is the third book that I've read in the Brian Froud's Faerielands series and is unfortunately my least favorite of the bunch so far. Brian Froud invited four of the top fantasy authors to pick their favorite piece of his work and write a story based upon it. The four authors and their...
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