Fantasy og science fiction

A delightful queer cottagecore romantasy full of friends-to-lovers romance, found family, rival family drama, and cozy garden magic. Yael Clauneck might be an indifferent warlock, but they are also the only scion of an obscenely wealthy banking family with its fingers in every pie in the realm. On the precipice of a predetermined life, a loveless political marriage, and eventually, children who'll be raised exactly as they were, they flee during their own graduation party, in search of the chance to feel like life can still be a grand adventure. Margot Greenwillow-talented plant witch, tea lover, and stressed greenhouse owner-has never felt further from adventure in her life. After her grandmother died and her parents lost the family fortune, she's been on her own, desperately trying to keep what remains of the family business afloat. So when her childhood friend-and former crush-gallops back into her life, she's shocked, to say the least. But when Yael confesses they've fled home with no possessions and no plan, Margot, lonely and in need of help, offers Yael a job in the greenhouses. Yael is delighted to accept. They lay low for a while, harvesting strawberries for heartbreak jam, and flirting with Margot while they figure out what to do next. What Yael doesn't know is that Margot's been forming a plan of her own - reforge alliances, entice investors, and take back everything that was stolen from her own family by the Clauneck Company. But plans are notoriously unreliable things, unlikely to survive a swiftly-blooming mutual attraction, not to mention the machinations of a set of parents determined to get their heir back-no matter the cost.

Penguin Weird Fiction- a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training - five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where - Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age. When he takes up an investigation, when he comes to the aid of some poor, frightened soul, you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and terrifying of circumstances- from pagan magic in remote France to battles with ancient Egyptian fire spirits, and from geometry defying alternate dimensions to the most macabre of haunted houses. Some of the first works written by Algernon Blackwood - one of the twentieth century's greatest ghost story writers - these John Silence tales are a visionary blend of horror, fantasy and science fiction, and remain today as some of pinnacle achievements of Weird Fiction.

Penguin Weird Fiction- a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Shot through with an unutterable sense of mystery, paranoia and dread, the King in Yellow is a linked collection of stories that swirl around a single motif- a terrible book that prompts an obsessive madness in all who look upon its pages. From a dystopian New York to the streets of Paris, these narratives offer glimpses and hints of impossible, terrifying revelations. Who is the King Yellow? What is the Yellow Sign? And where might be that ancient and famous city, Carcosa?Combining expectation-defying horror with decadent description, The King in Yellow has proven to be one of the most durable and brilliant collections of Weird Fiction ever written, inspiring countless authors, from the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft to fantasy world of George R.R. Martin.

Penguin Weird Fiction- a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. A manuscript is found- filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home - and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by that old man on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam. Soon his earthly abode is no less terrible than this strange vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse - more merciless and awful than any creature that can be fought or killed. The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson's great masterpiece of cosmic fear, is an extraordinary novel that defied all accepted conventions of horror writing, forging in an instant a new, weird direction for the form.

Penguin Weird Fiction- a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson's most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards- a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box's ancient, terrifying origin... The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett's Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror.

Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, something happened, something... weird. In the dark halls of ivy-clad manors, in the ancient woodland escapes of New England, a generation of authors were inspired to radically reinterpret the horror and fantasy writing of the past. From the terrible plagues of Edgar Allen Poe to the religious terror of May Sinclair and on to the awful, tentacle-faced mythos of H.P. Lovecraft, this anthology celebrates the very best of this writing, a collection of brilliant tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.

By 2376 A.D., Earth is no longer a life-sustainable planet.Teenagers Clark and Kent (self-named from the old films their father used to watch) are among the first pioneers to venture onto the planet Polaris, so far from Earth that they had to pass through two space stations to get here. They have traveled without their parents, but they are resilient and strong, helping to shape the planet into a New Earth.As the years go by, marriage and parenthood for one of them brings different problems, as well as having to face the friction caused by politicians and religious zealots. But in the end, somebody is going to have to decide...Is history repeating itself?

Toby was born in a jail, raised in an orphanage, and worked for a farmer who became his mentor. When the farmer died, he took a 'shortcut' to the goldfields through the mountains. Hopelessly lost, he came across an Indian boy trapped on a cliff face with a broken leg. He rescued the boy who took him to his tribe where Toby met Quinita. Toby is fey and his gift shows him Quinita's true nature which he finds beautiful. They gradually fell in love which caused young men in the tribe to demand his expulsion. Toby eventually found the goldfields but despite some success only wanted Quinita. He returned to the tribe and won acceptance.

Jason MacKenzie is a jaded journo for the New York Times who's tired of riding his desk and longs for adventure.When his best friend and one-time art partner is murdered by a ruthless assassin on the hunt for an otherworldly bracelet that defies scientific scrutiny, he joins forces with the beautiful and enigmatic two-hundred-year-old witch, Eva, to search for both treasure and truth.With this, he becomes the unlikely hero in a quest that takes him across Europe and up into the icy reaches of Canada, weaving back and forth between the present day and an ancient, fantastical past where celestial beings and giants roamed the earth.Along the way he discovers an obscure connection between the Nazis, the occult and the Spanish Inquisition, meets an ancient Indian tribe tasked with safeguarding the future of the planet and encounters a diary, written by the painter, Goya, more than two hundred years ago, which tells of a secret, that if made public, would shake the very foundations of what we know of what it is to be human.

Sequel to popular The Devil's Advisor, chronicling the fallout of the invasion of Hell as Brian struggles to balance the life he always wanted, while navigating the demands of his chaotic personal relationships on a near-apocalyptic scale. A darkly comic, satirical masterpiece.

A Kitsune, a Gumiho, a Witch, and a danger not even their combined magic is strong enough to defy. Marie Xiao lives a double life, moonlighting as a freelance consultant in corporate Seattle even as she dedicates herself-and her powers as a witch-to chasing down objects of myth and magic before they can be used to harm humankind. She carefully guards the bridges between worlds and has never once been tempted to stray.Until she catches the eye of a pair-bonded kitsune and gumiho and her whole world is thrown into chaos.Japanese and Korean fox spirits Yamamoto Kuro and Joseph Choe have been hoping to cross paths with Marie since their first chance meeting at an artifact retrieval gone decidedly wrong. They may work for Marie's enemy, but they don't see any reason why they can't mingle a little work and play...especially when a (literal) dead man waltzes into their impromptu reunion, raising intriguing questions about a deeper magic that may be afoot. Temporarily teaming up, the trio investigate the unusual unrest...but as loyalties begin to shift and lines blur, Kuro, Joe, and Marie may find themselves at the precipice of something none of them are prepared to face...or deny.MYTHWOVEN:Wings Once Cursed & BoundFangs So Bright & Deadly

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres. This book is a timely contribution to debates within African literature, cultural anthropology, ethnography, and folklore.

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Travel back in time to the early days of Magic: The Gathering!

You don't fuck with the Rakada. The people living in the Great Grass call them the Bone Raiders, from their charming habit of displaying the bones of those they kill on their horses and armour. But being a raider is tough these days. There's a new High Chieftain ruling the Grass. He's had it with the raider clans, and plans to use his sizeable military to do something about it. And then there are the araatan: fire-breathing lizards the size of elephants - one of which happens to turn up in a cute little settlement the Rakada are in the middle of raiding. Sayana is a Rakada scout, and in the chaos of the raid-gone-wrong, she finds herself on the back of a rampaging araatan. Whoops. In a panic, she discovers she can steer it, like you would a horse. It's frankly amazing she survives any of this. Once Sayana gets an idea into her head, it's awful hard to dislodge. And now she has a doozy: what if the Rakada could swap their horses for araatan? Train the lizards to act as mounts? That would even the odds against the High Chieftain, no?

The second series of the unique interactive fantasy saga. Joe Dever''s Lone Wolf has inspired a generation of readers and gamers alike. Since 1984, it has sold more than 12 million copies, been translated into 18 languages, and won multiple international awards. Each exciting episode can be played separately, or combined into a fantastic role-playing epic spanning 32 books.The Magnakai Series (books 6 to 12) covers several years of high adventure. The young Lone Wolf becomes a Kai Master but struggles to understand & control his abilities. To train a new order he must follow the path of Sun Eagle, the first of all the Kai Lords, creator of the Book of the Magnakai on a quest for seven divine artifacts - the Lorestones of Nyxator - hidden in terrible places like the hellish Danarg Swamp and the sunken city of Zaaryx. His quest is hindered by the rise of a new Archlord of the Darklands.

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin