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The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists

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The Sandman: Endless Nights

Neil Gaiman · 160 pages

The Sandman: Book of Dreams (1996), edited by Ed Kramer and Neil Gaiman, is an anthology of short stories based on The Sandman comic book series.

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The Red Fairy Book

Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 330 pages

Twenty-nine fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, including The Golden Goose, The Story of Sigurd, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.

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The Golden Book of Fairy Tales

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Segur · 160 pages

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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket

Chris Van Allsburg · 236 pages

Who is Harris Burdick? For more than twenty-five years, readers have been puzzling over the illustrations by this enigmatic artist. Thousands of children have been inspired to weave their own stories to go with his intriguingly titled pictures. And now, some of our most imaginative storytellers attempt to solve the perplexing mysteries of Harris Burdick. Enter The Chronicles of Harris Burdic

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

David Sedaris · 192 pages

If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more coarse

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Sybil's Garage No. 7

Hal Duncan, M.K. Hobson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Sonya Taaffe, Anil Menon, Amy Sisson, Richard Larson, Kelly Barnhill, E.C. Myers, Kathryn E. Baker, Cheryl Barkauskas, Tom Crosshill, Lindsey Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Lyn C. A. Gardner, Juliet Gillies, Swapna Kishore, Avi Kotzer, Terence Kuch, Megan Kur · 206 pages

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A Glory Of Unicorns

Bruce Coville, Alix Berenzy · 198 pages

Award-winning author Bruce Coville believes in unicorns, and his mission is to make believers out of all of us with this collection of stories by distinguished fantasy writers. The guardian of memory / Bruce Coville Tearing down the unicorns / Janni Lee Simner Beyond the fringe / Gregory Maguire Stealing dreams / Ruth O'Neill The dream-child / Nancy Varian Berberick The ugly unicorn /

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Flight, Vol. 2

Kazu Kibuishi · 431 pages

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Tales of the Peculiar

Ransom Riggs · 165 pages

Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.

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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter · 486 pages

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories, from countries all around the world from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones, crafty women and bad girls, enchantresses and midwives, rascal aunts and odd sisters.

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The Complete Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen · 286 pages

Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."

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Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature

Marguerite Yourcenar, Graham Greene, M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, Jean Cocteau, Giovanni Papini, Virgilio Pinera, Jules Verne, Hermann Hesse, E.M. Forster, Daphne du Maurier, Jorge Luis Borges, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Flann O'Brien, I.A. Ireland, David Garnett, Bruno Schulz, M · 967 pages

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The Tolkien Reader

J.R.R. Tolkien · 290 pages

Anthology of Works, published 1966, including poems, short stories, a play, and some non fiction. Compilation of materials previously published as "Tree and Leaf", "Farmer Giles of Ham," and "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", along with one additional piece and intro material.

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The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

Pat Murphy, Carolyn Dunn, Steve Berman, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Christopher Barzak, Delia Sherman, Richard Bowes, Ellen Klages, Patricia A. McKillip, Theodora Goss, Charles de Lint, Katherine Vaz, Caroline Stevermer, Midori Snyder, Michael Cadnum, Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Wein, Kim Antieau, Will Shette · 523 pages

Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature—and are a natural choice for acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's latest "mythic" anthology. The Coyote Road features a remarkable range of authors, including Holly Black, Charles de Lint, Ellen Klages, and Kelly Link, each with his or her unique look at a trickster character. Charles Vess's remarkable decorations highl

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The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore

Jane Yolen, Ella Young, Ardath Mayhar, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Patricia C. Wrede, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Jennifer Roberson, Audrey Alexandra Brown, Megan Lindholm, William Jay Smith, Margaret Greaves, Myra Cohn Livingston, Madeleine L'Engle, Beatrice Farrington, E. V. Rieu, C.S. Lewis · 202 pages

Filled with the most popular legends about the mythical unicorn and including original poems and stories, this collection brings together the singular talents of Bruce Coville, Madeleine L'Engle, Jane Yolen, C. S. Lewis, Myra Cohn Livingston, and many others. A perfect companion to Coville's own bestselling Unicorn Chronicles and an ideal gift for the child who has always wondered about these glor

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The Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll · 792 pages

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Flight, Vol. 1

Scott McCloud · 206 pages

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The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle

Peter S. Beagle · 430 pages

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Italian Folktales

Italo Calvino · 763 pages

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Amphigorey

Edward Gorey · 204 pages

Collects fifteen works by the U.S. artist and author Edward Gorey, providing a journey into a macabre world. --

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Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales

Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales—evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's new anthology for younger readers, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumplestiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Gar

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The New Weird

Alistair Rennie · 367 pages

This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Mieville, modern icon Clive Barker, an

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Terrifying Tales

Jon Scieszka, Adam Gidwitz, R.L. Stine, Dav Pilkey, Michael Buckley, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Adele Griffin, Kelly Barnhill, Lisa Brown, Daniel Jose Older · 288 pages

Eleven masters of suspense Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel Jose Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly, perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flash

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