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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Neil Gaiman · 352 pages
"En las manos maestras de Neil Gaiman, la magia es mucho más que un mero juego de engaños. La destreza y el poder de invención de este gran fabulador transforman el entorno cotidiano en un mundo hechizado por sucesos sombríos y extraños, en el que una anciana puede comprar el Santo Grial en una tienda de segunda mano, unos asesinos se anuncian en los clasificados de un periódico bajo la rúbrica ±C
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.
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
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 405 pages
Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Cloaked in Red
Vivian Vande Velde
Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
Leigh Bardugo · 304 pages
"The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic" by Leigh Bardugo is a collection of six beautifully written and illustrated short stories inspired by folklore and fairy tales. Each tale is steeped in dark magic, moral lessons, and intricate storytelling, making it feel like an ancient book of fables from the Grishaverse.
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.
The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales
Gail Carson Levine · 390 pages
Contains six tales about princesses, including the title work in which the son of a baker and a princess fall in love, but her father disapproves.
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
Amal El-Mohtar · 196 pages
Wonders of the Invisible World
Patricia A. McKillip · 288 pages
Stylistically rooted in fairy tale and mythology, McKillip explores imperceptible landscapes in these stories. There are princesses dancing with dead suitors, a knight in love with an official of exotic lineage, and fortune's fool stealing into the present instead of the future. In one tale, a time-traveling angel is forbidden to intervene in Cotton Mather's religious ravings, while another narrat
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
Kelly Link · 272 pages
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.
The Complete Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde · 144 pages
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse · 266 pages
To read Hermann Hesse's fairy tales is to enter a fabulous world of dreams and visions, philosophy and passion. This landmark collection contains twenty-two of Hesse's finest stories in this genre, most translated into English here for the first time. Drawing on both Eastern and Western fairy-tale traditions, Hesse captures the innate power of this ancient form as he spins wondrous stories that bo
The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Francesca Lia Block · 240 pages
With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of her past, finally finds release from its curse.And Beauty learns that Beasts can understand more than me
The Door in the Hedge
Robin McKinley · 216 pages
"She took a deep breath, and stepped through the door in the hedge." Four tales of stolen princesses, magical hinds, talking frogs, and dancing princesses, on the far side of the door into faeryland.
Kissing the Witch
Emma Donoghue · 228 pages
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A.S. Byatt · 277 pages
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
The Line Between
Peter S. Beagle · 206 pages
The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of the powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to expect, the stories are written with a grace and style similar to fantasy's most original voices, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, and Kurt Vonnegut. Traditional themes are typically infused with modern sensibilities--r
Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales
Yasmine Galenorn, Alethea Kontis, Annie Bellet, Anthea Sharp, Phaedra Weldon, Christine Pope, Jennifer Blackstream, Donna Augustine, C. Gockel, Audrey Faye, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson · 414 pages
Sword of Destiny
Andrzej Sapkowski · 393 pages
Geralt the Witcher battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike in Sword of Destiny, the second collection of adventures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games. The New York Times bestselling series Over Fifteen Million Copies Sold Worldwide World Fantasy Award Winning Author David Gemmell Legend Award Winning Author Name
The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Franz Xaver von Schonwerth · 264 pages
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Bill Willingham · 144 pages
Traveling in Arabia as an Ambassador from the exiled Fables community, Snow White is captured by the local sultan who wants to marry her (and then kill her). But the clever Snow attempts to charm the sultan instead by playing Scheherazade, telling him fantastic stories for a total of 1,001 nights. Running the gamut from horror to dark intrigue to mercurial coming-of-age, FABLES: 1,001 NIGHTS OF SN
Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
Tanith Lee · 197 pages
Here are ten devilishly twisted fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm never dares to tell them. With her brilliantly macabre pen, Tanith Lee retells some familiar tales, and concocts some new and unusual ones, as she asks us to consider the possibility that things may not work as our fairy tales have them.... In the title story, Lee shows us a perfectly good stepmother, whose princess stepdaughter ree