Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
10 best books like Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories (Diana Wynne Jones): Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, Water, Book of Enchantments, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories, The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, Harrowing the Dragon, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Bookstores are the greatest places on earth, yet there's never been an anthology devoted just to them. Here are sixteen stories, fourteen original to this anthology, each of which includes a bookstore at its core. Science fiction, fantasy and horror. Authors included are David Bischoff, P.D. Cacek,...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0142402443 |
Seven tales describe magical beings that inhabit our waters. Some are familiar mer-people; some as strange as as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152055088 |
Wrede [pronounced as "Reedy"] is one of my favorite authors, and IMO one of the best writers of English-language fantasy fiction in her generation. Equally at home with long and short fiction, she showcases her talent for the latter in this collection of 10 stories, four of them published here for the...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0142404063 |
Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over--benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 1931520577 |
This is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken’s beloved Armitage stories—and it includes four new, unpublished stories. After Mrs. Armitage makes a wish, the Armitage family has “interesting and unusual” experiences every Monday (and the occasional Tuesday). The Board of Incantation...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0440405807 |
Ladies and gentlemen of the Goodreads jury. Don't let the fact that this book is cutesy-covered, middle-size fonted, and 100 pages thin fool you: This is NOT A BOOK FOR (JUST) KIDS. How do I know that? I submit as evidence: me. I read this randomly when I was a youngun and loved it. Years later, as a less-youngun,...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441014437 |
A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For 25 years, she's drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern-day fables with a grace rarely seen. Now she presents a book of previously uncollected short stories, full...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142403202 |
Firebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy...
| Author | Jack Dann |
| ISBN | 0441017649 |
Never before published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and others.
Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152164448 |
Features the Nebula Award-winning novella "Lost Girls."
In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at heart, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear--but dead--mother's homecoming,...
| Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| ISBN | 0142403563 |
A spellbinding collection of short stories by the author of the Darkangel and Firebringer trilogies.
Meredith Ann Pierce's acclaimed novels are the proof of a remarkable imagination. Here is more proof--eight shorter works of fiction, each with a strong heroine, a tangibly imagined world,...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0440227674 |
Vande Velde expertly mixes horror and humor as well as the best and worst that human nature has to offer in this collection of short fiction, and she does it without relying on blood and guts.The best of these stories is the title piece. Bill has invited Denise to the school's end of the year dance, but decides...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756403804 |
Everyone knows that heroes should triumph, dragons should be slain, and maidens should be rescued. But what if things don't go according to plan? Here are 16 fun tales of magic gone awry - from an author whose unicorn protagonist takes control of the story to a person who can hear food talking with strange...
| Author | Denise Little |
| ISBN | 0756401739 |
An anthology of 15 stories whose themes revolve around a magic shop. This is a nice collection as the stories vary greatly.
Susan Sizemore’s Every Little Thing She Does is a cute romance between a mundane and the owner of a not-too-successful magic shop in Scotland. Overtly, the stubborn...
| Author | Megan Whalen Turner |
| ISBN | 0060842318 |
A leprechaun is sighted in small–town New Hampshire. A city boy becomes a hero in prehistoric Sweden. An elf prince tries to reward a girl who wishes he'd just leave her alone. In these and other delightful stories, magical adventure appears in the most unexpected places!
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