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A Surfeit of Mirrors
Henri de Régnier (1864-1936) was the most commercially successful of all the French Symbolist writers of the 1890s. A Surfeit of Mirrors, published by Black Coat Press, is a collection of most of his important short fiction.
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The Wardog's Coin, A Magic Broken, and The Last Witchking, by Vox Day
A collection of novellas and short stories set in Selenoth, the author's epic fantasy world.
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Six-Gun Snow White, by Catherynne Valente
Snow White is the gunslinging half-breed daughter of a silver baron in Catherynne Valente's latest retold fairy tale.
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your favourite fantasy fiction of 2013
I've noted that no-one has posted a list of the best fantasy fiction they read in 2013. Would anyone like to share such a list with us? -
favourite fantasy reads of 2013
My favourite fantasy reads of 2013:
Charles Beadle, The Land of Ophir. Fun lost world tale. Published in 1922.
Joseph E. Badger Jr, The Lost City. Another lost world tale, plus it has airships and Aztecs. Published in 1898.
H. Rider Haggard, Ayesha - The Return of She. The sequel to his masterpiece, She. Published in 1905.
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City of Wonder
City of Wonder, published in 1922, is the best known of E. Charles Vivian’s lost world adventure novels. If anyone's interested I've reviewed it here on my Vintage Pop Fictions blog. -
Yellow Men Sleep (AKA The Fragment Web)
Jeremy Lane’s lost world fantasy story was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly as The Fragrant Web in 1919. The following year it was published in book form as Yellow Men Sleep.
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Deathless, by Catherynne Valente
A Sovietized, reimagined Russian fairy tale that is almost but not quite an adult Fairyland book.
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Ayesha - The Return of She
H Rider Haggard’s She, published in 1887, is one of the bestselling novels of all time. It’s unquestionably one of the great adventure novels. Given its enormous success it’s hardly surprising that Haggard was tempted to produce a sequel in 1905. The result was Ayesha - The Return of She.
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