Thomas the Rhymer

Author	Robert Holdstock
ISBN	0765307294

The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping...

Author	Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN	0441004385

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...

Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate,...

Author

Pamela 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...

Author

Kai Ashante Wilson

Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.

Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...

Author	John Updike
ISBN	0140290907

Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he...

Author	Charles de Lint
ISBN	0765306794

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...

Author	Terri Windling
ISBN	0765302934

Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death.

Maggie...

Author	Adèle Geras
ISBN	0152055312

In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Alice seems destined to lead a princess's life--except for the frightening curse that dreaded Aunt Violette bestowed at her christening: She will die at the age of eighteen. Although she lives, something horrible happens on her eighteenth birthday. And as...

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	1843430878

"HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN THE YEAR 1755" "THE PRINT OF A WOMAN'S SHOE WAS FOUND BY HIS SIDE IN THE SNOW WHERE HE LAY DEAD"

John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk across distances incomprehensible to his ancient and static...

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0007127863

A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orion's stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power...

Author	Bradley P. Beaulieu
ISBN	1473223601

The fourth book in The Song of Shattered Sands series—an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action.

When a battle to eradicate the Thirteenth Tribe goes awry, the kingdoms bordering the desert metropolis of Sharakhai see the city as weak...

Author

M.R. James

First appearing in The London Mercury (May 1925), and republished later the same year in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories, “A View From the Hill” remains—with each subsequent reading—one of my favorite M.R. James’ tales. It is not one of his most popular, and its premise—man...

Author	Kevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN	0571138799

Kevin Crossley-Holland, an expert in the field of legends, has collected and retold some of the best of the East Anglian and Fen country tales. To the people who lived in this bleak, cold marshland of mist, dark paths and corners, the strange creatures and spirits that haunted and lived in the earth and...

Author	Thomas Mann
ISBN	1568490356

Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The sorcerer, Cipolla, is analogous to the fascist dictators of the era with their fiery speeches...

Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN	1511973439

Bleak and wind-swept is the little town of Kirkby-Malhouse, harsh and forbidding are the fells upon which it stands. It stretches in a single line of grey-stone, slate-roofed houses, dotted down the furze-clad slope of the rolling moor. In this lonely and secluded village, I, James Upperton, found...

Author

Kevin Hearne

Kevin Hearne, you had me at hello. This was my first expeeince with the Iron Druid series.

In July 2014, my family and I took a weeklong trip to Ireland. We visited Dublin, Blarney Castle, Killarney, Castle Bunratty ,the cliffs of Moher, and Galway. We had a wonderful time. For a lifetime I have...

Author	Kevin Hearne
ISBN	0730497992

A very early Iron Druid story.

Published in 2011, in a bundle with the Hounded ebook, Kevin Hearne adds to his Atticus O’Sullivan mythos. Still fresh and new for urban fantasy fans, Hearne spends some time explaining his vision of Atticus’ story in this fun little short story.

Atticus...

Author

Kevin Hearne

A Test of Mettle by Kevin Hearne is a short story in his Iron Druid series and is written to be during the same time as Hammered, the third novel in the series.

This story is unique in this cycle because it does not feature Atticus O’Sullivan as the protagonist but rather his Druid student, Granuaile...