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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMarion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXI
Diana L. Paxson · 308 pages
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2
Scott Allie, Laura J. Burns, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Todd McIntosh, Michael Reaves, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Melinda Metz, Max Allan Collins, Matthew V. Clemens, Greg Cox, Kara Dalky, Jane Espenson · 368 pages
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous · 912 pages
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume
A Fantasy Medley 2
Tanya Huff, Amanda Downum, Jasper Kent, Seanan McGuire · 160 pages
Four original stories from some of fantasy's most exciting authors, featuring assassins, faerie, hauntings, and more.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
Doranna Durgin, Christie Golden, Yvonne Navarro, Nancy Holder, Greg Rucka, Mel Odom · 320 pages
The Chick is in the Mail
Esther M. Friesner · 317 pages
An anthology of short stories about female warriors. Friesner has edited several "Chicks" collections in the same vein, including _Chicks in Chainmail_, _Chicks and Chained Males_, and _Did You Say Chicks?_
Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
Jonathan Strahan, Lou Anders · 533 pages
Seventeen original tales of sword and sorcery penned by masters old and new Elric . . . the Black Company . . . Majipoor. For years, these have been some of the names that have captured the hearts of generations of readers and embodied the sword and sorcery genre. And now some of the most beloved and bestselling fantasy writers working today deliver stunning all-new sword and sorcery stories in
A Tyranny of Petticoats
J. Anderson Coats, Andrea Cremer, Y.S. Lee, Katherine Longshore, Marie Lu, Kekla Magoon, Marissa Meyer, Saundra Mitchell, Beth Revis, Caroline Tung Richmond, Lindsay Smith, Robin Talley, Leslye Walton, Elizabeth Wein · 354 pages
Criss-cross America on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and sch
Elric: Tales of the White Wolf
Michael Moorcock · 469 pages
Anthology of stories that Elric of Melniboné edited by Edward E. Kramer and Richard Gilliam.
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.
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Robin McKinley · 269 pages
What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales fr
The Reign of Istar
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Richard A. Knaak, Michael Williams · 368 pages
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 880 pages
Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West
Joe R. Lansdale, Hugh Howey, Rajan Khanna, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, David Farland, Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire, Charles Yu, Alan Dean Foster, Beth Revis, Alastair Reynolds, Tad Williams, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, Tobias S. Buckell, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Laura Ann · 436 pages
The weird, wild west--an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.
Fire
Robin McKinley, Peter Dickinson · 271 pages
Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire.In McKinley's "First Flight," a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her "Hellhound" stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson intr
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4
Michael Reaves, Scott Allie, Robert Joseph Levy, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Greg Cox, Kara Dalkey, Jane Espenson, Nancy Holder · 323 pages
Once Upon a Dream
Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, Marianne Willman · 382 pages
The four ladies who brought us Once upon a Castle and Once upon a Star are at it again with this latest anthology, Once upon a Dream. These stories revolve around the magic and dreams that draw our heroes and heroines together.
Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, Carrie Ryan, Scott Westerfeld, Meg Cabot, Garth Nix, Kathleen Duey, Margo Lanagan, Naomi Novik, Diana Peterfreund, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare · 432 pages
It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. C
Elemental Magic: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters
Diana L. Paxon, Jody Lynn Nye, Gail Sanders, Michael Z. Williamson, Tanya Huff, Ron Collins, Kristin Schwengel, Samuel Conway, Fiona Patton, Rosemary Edghill, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Elisabeth Waters, Cedric Johnson, Dayle A. Dermatis, Michele Lang · 320 pages
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