18 books like Phantastes
Phantasmion
Phantasmion is the king of a fantastical realm who is forced into a series of trials that require him to seek help from unexpected allies. It’s a captivating adventure full of vibrant characters and internal and external conflicts. King Phantasmion is desperate to protect Palmland from agressive invaders. His people are being targeted by multiple groups including humans and evil spirits. When…
Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, English literature
The wood beyond the world
William Morris is famous in no small part for his contributions to defining the genre of modern fantasy literature, and The Wood Beyond the World is a classic example of that influence. Written in a purposefully-antiquated prose style reminiscent of Sir Thomas Malory or other aged fairy tales, The Wood Beyond the World can be difficult for some readers; but those who follow through will enjoy a…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Imaginary places, English literature, Classic Literature
The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
In this, A king and queen have a daughter and invite everyone to the christening except the King's sister Princess Makemnoit, a spiteful and sour woman. She arrives without an invitation and curses the princess to have no gravity.
Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales
David Blaize and the blue door
"David Blaize and the Blue Door" by E.F. Benson is a captivating tale of adventure and mystery. Young David Blaize embarks on a thrilling journey, unlocking secrets behind the mysterious blue door. Benson's vivid prose and engaging characters weave a captivating narrative, blending elements of fantasy and suspense to create an enchanting story that will delight readers of all ages.
Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales
The Last Book of Wonder
NOTE: THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVISED AND EXPANDED AS FOLLOWS:
-- In March 2016, we added 2 more short story collections!
-- In April 2016, we added 7 uncollected short stories!
-- Includes an interactive table of contents.
-- Includes an introduction to "Tales of War" by Dunsany scholar Darrell Schweitzer.
This mammoth volume of Lord Dunsany's classic short fiction assembles no less than 10…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fairy Tales
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
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.
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fairy Tales, English literature
Rewards and fairies
Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies are classic children's books which speak powerfully to adult readers. Una and Dan, performing a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream one Midsummer's Eve, accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck the children are witnesses to tales of English history, subtly called forth by Kipling's brilliant and fluid adventure…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fairies, Fairy Tales, Classic Literature
The Human Chord
It was an innocent enough advertisement but curious.
"WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale... '
Robert Spinrobin applied. Later, struggling to keep pace with his new employer as they strode across the steep valleys around Skale's isolated house, he was swept up…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy
The Alloy of Law
Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.
Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are…
Shares: Imaginary places, Fantasy
The house of the Wolfings
The House of the Wolfings tells the tale of a band of German Goths living in a wood they call the Mark. Their lives are idyllic until the long shadow of the Roman Empire threatens the peace in their land. Thiodolf, the leader of the Wolfings and a descendant of the ancient gods, must rally the surrounding tribes to defend their home and way of life. Like much of Morris’s work, The House of the…
Shares: Classic Literature, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy
George MacDonald - An anthology
C. S. Lewis said everything he wrote was influenced by George MacDonald. According to Lewis, there is "hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continuously close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself." Writing a preface and selecting MacDonald's most poignant passages, Lewis introduces us to these extraordinary treasures. Ranging from "Inexorable Love" to "The Torment of Death," these…
Shares: Scottish Fantasy fiction, English Fantasy fiction
The Silmarillion
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, English literature, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
K. J. Parker's new novel is the remarkable tale of the siege of a walled city, and the even more remarkable man who had to defend it.A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more…
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Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
"Yes! I'm not mistaken at all! It's the same woman!" whispered the tall, good-looking young enman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at one of the roulette tables at Monte Carlo, the first on the right on entering the room - that one known to habitual gamblers as "The Suicide's Table."
Shares: English literature, Classic Literature
Ancient Sorceries
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows,"…
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The Blade Itself
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.
Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of…
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The Land of the Blue Flower
Hoping to dispel dark thoughts and evil from his corrupt kingdom, young King Amor proclaims an unconventional law and watches for the expected transformation.
Shares: Fairy Tales, Classic Literature
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.
The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s…
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