18 books like The House on the Borderland
Maura's Angel
Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction
The lighthouse war
Jamie and Ramsay figure out how to recharge the Salmon, the extraterrestrial device that allows them to travel through wormholes in space. Heading back to the planet Altair, Jamie discovers that the Witch Queen will do anything to get her hands on Jamie and the Salmon.
Shares: Ireland, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
Farmer Giles of Ham
In this fiftieth anniversary edition of the Tolkien classic, Farmer Giles, his mare, and his talking dog go into the valley of the Thames to fight the dragon Chrysophylax. Includes the author's previously unpublished notes for a sequel.
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
A Wizard Abroad
Sent on vacation to her aunt's home in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita becomes entangled in a magic battle to save the country from the ghosts of its past.
Shares: Ireland, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Rinkitink in Oz
When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
Shares: Classic Literature, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Psychomania
John Llewellyn Probert: Prologue: Screams in the Dark
Joe R. Lansdale: I Tell You It's Love
Reggie Oliver: The Green Hour
Steve Rasnic Tem: The Secret Laws of the Universe
Basil Copper: The Recompensing of Albano Pizar
David A. Sutton: Night Soil Man
Brian Hodge: Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella
Scott Edelman: The Trembling Living Wire
John Llewellyn Probert: Case Conference #1
Robert Silverberg:…
Shares: Classic Literature, Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Maura's angel
Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction
The Enchanted Island of Yew
A beautiful fairy is transformed into a human prince for one year. He and his friends have many adventures.
Shares: Classic Literature, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Double Star
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.
Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the…
Shares: Science Fiction, Children's fiction
The ghost of Grania O'Malley
Ten-year-old Jessie, helped by her American cousin and the ghost of a notorious female pirate, finds the strength to prevail over both a crippling disease and the greedy developers intent on destroying her Irish island home.
Shares: Ireland, Mystery, Children's fiction
The Road to Oz
Dorothy and her friends follow the enchanted road to Oz and arrive in time for Ozma's birthday party.
Shares: Classic Literature, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Happy Prince and other tales
THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES is a collection of fables - THE HAPPY PRINCE had been, in life, a joyful personality. However, now, immortalised by a gold and jewel encrusted statue, he's saddened by the poverty of his citizens. Unable to move, he enlists the help of a swallow to help his people ... In THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE, a nightingale overhears a student complaining that his…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Classic Literature, Children's fiction
The Sleepwalker
One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs. Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, always waking up outdoors in the middle of the night never knowing where she is! Things take a disturbing turn when Mayra discovers Mrs. Cottler may be a witch. Is the old woman casting a spell on Mayra to make her sleepwalk? More horrifying, Mayra is being followed by a menacing…
Shares: Horror, Mystery, Children's fiction
A Prisoner in Fairyland
In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming — none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders' Meeting would have considered satisfactory. The old vicar spoke to him strangely. "We've not forgotten you as…
Shares: Classic Literature, Fantasy, Children's fiction
La isla de los dragones del Reino de la Fantasía
Fairies, dragons, wizards, and more await Geronimo on every magical Kingdom of Fantasy adventure!
Geronimo Stilton is needed for the twelfth time in the Kingdom of Fantasy! The five princesses of The Kingdom of Lotus Flowers have been kidnapped by a terrible witch. The King and Queen believe I am the brave knight from the Prophecy of Dragonia who will save them. The prophecy says that I must…
Shares: Fantasy, Mystery, Children's fiction
Flying High
Mel is not happy when Michael volunteers her and her mates for a medieval field trip. But when they get there, they stumble upon a time scam which could have serious repercussions for the Agency.
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
The gifts of the child Christ
The moving story by George MacDonald, here retold for modern audiences by Michael Wilhelm. A young girl, devoid of the love and affection such a one needs on Christmas day, has a transcendental experience that changes all of those around her.This story, simple, and beautiful in its telling, is one that will leave you with that ever-illusive spirit of Christmas.
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
The Subtle Knife
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?
The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.
Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction