Viriconium Nights
10 best books like Viriconium Nights (M. John Harrison): The Shadow of the Torturer, Little, Big, Mythago Wood, Titus Groan, The Great God Pan, City of Saints and Madmen, The High Crusade, Suldrun's Garden, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, The Book of the New Sun
The Shadow of the Torturer
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671540661 |
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".
You can rarely trust the...
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0061120057 |
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in...
| 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 | Mervyn Peake |
| ISBN | 0879514256 |
What an odd fantasy! No swords, no sorcery, no elves, no thieves, no imaginary beasts, no multiple planes of existence . . . nothing but a cavernous castle peopled by eccentrics with Dickensian names (Sepulchrave, Prunesquallor, Swelter, Flay) whose lives are determined by centuries--perhaps...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 1871592119 |
The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as...
City of Saints and Madmen
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0553383574 |
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor....
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0743475283 |
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix,...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0575073748 |
The Elder Isles, located in what is now the Bay of Biscay off the the coast of Old Gaul, are made up of ten contending kingdoms, all vying with each other for control. At the centre of much of the intrigue is Casmir, the ruthless and ambitious king of Lyonesse. His beautiful but otherworldly daughter, Suldrun,...
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0143107380 |
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural
Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 1568658079 |
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory....
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 2290302147 |
Pauvre Cugel : alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le magicien rieur, le voilà renvoyé de l'autre côté de l'océan des soupirs. Pour retourner en Almery et enfin se venger, Cugel se lance donc dans un nouveau périple foisonnant de dangers et de créatures farfelues... Une nouvelle...
