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ElidorNovel
Alan Garnerstandalone novel1965
Eerie in tone, about coming of age, set in british isles.
“Set primarily in modern Manchester, it features four English children who enter a fantasy world, fulfill a quest there, and return to find that the enemy has followed them into our world.”
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Fairy TaleNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2022
Dark fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age.
MaliceSeries
series2 books2009
Portal fantasy and fantasy, dark in tone, about transported to another world, set in contemporary.
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Dirty MagicNovel
Carol Hughesstandalone novel2006
Dark fantasy, about coming of age.
The ScholomanceSeries
series3 books2020
Dark fantasy, about magic schools and wizards.
Start with A Deadly Education →
DarwathSeries
series7 books1982
Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.
“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
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Start with The Time of the Dark →