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Lud-in-the-MistNovel
Hope Mirrleesstandalone novel1926
About fae.
ShadowbridgeSeries
series2 books2008
Mythic fantasy, whimsical in tone.
“Frost's considerable powers of imagination and description ground the disparate locales and societies of his world through story - those lived, told to and by young Leodora in her journey of self-discovery.”
from the catalogue
Start with Shadowbridge →
Tales of the Flat EarthSeries
series14 books1978
completed
Dark in tone, about demons.
“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue
Start with Night's Master →
GormenghastSeries
series6 books1946
completed
Gothic, dark in tone.
“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue
Start with Titus Groan →
AmbergrisSeries
series20 books1996
Weird fiction, set in big city.
“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
from the catalogue
Start with City of Saints and Madmen →
EarthseaUniverse
universe19 books1964
Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.
“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →
includes Earthsea Cycle