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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWonders 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
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
Ray Bradbury · 912 pages
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stor
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Robin McKinley · 201 pages
Five tales: A young woman with the power to heal, but no power of speech, meets a mage who has lost—or renounced—his powers; a princess who is chained inside a cave as a sacrifice to a monster finds he is no monster; a troll bargains for a human wife, but will not hold her against her will; an old farmer releases a curse on his own land for love of his beautiful young wife; and a young girl finds
The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith · 400 pages
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price · 387 pages
This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror.
The Rediscovery of Man
Cordwainer Smith · 400 pages
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde · 206 pages
Collection of Wilde Short stories, written before his plays, and well before the trial. H. L. Mencken essay praises Wilde's art, damns his lack of honor and arrogance that let to his trial and his ruin. Interesting evaluation of Wilde as an artist of great force, and at the same time, weakness. H. L. Mencken reminds us that Wilde was "news" and news that had stayed "news". Kutcher's beautiful i
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 320 pages
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician who has lost his powers.
Phantastes
George MacDonald · 196 pages
One of George MacDonald's most important works, Phantastes is the story of a young man named Anotos and his long dreamlike journey in Fairy Land. It is the fairy tale of deep spiritual insight as Anotos makes his way through moments of uncertainty and peril and mistakes that can have irreversible consequences. This is also his spiritual quest that is destined to end with the supreme surrender of t
Winter's Tales
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 265 pages
The Complete Stories
Truman Capote · 328 pages
"Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, Random House presents
Lips Touch: Three Times
Laini Taylor · 274 pages
Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.
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."
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
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.
Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
Hermann Hesse · 213 pages
Lud-in-the-Mist
Hope Mirrlees · 288 pages
Lud was a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. But the Dapple had its roots in the land of Faerie, beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable lands to the West, which was a great trial to Lud, a town that had long ago rejected any such fanciful nonsense as "fairies" and "elves" and the like. But when a plague of faerie infl
In the Night Garden
Catherynne M. Valente · 496 pages
A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us--to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time--a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page....Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: p
Collected Stories
Gabriel García Márquez · 311 pages