Books Like Something Wicked This Way Comes
A carnival arrives in an Illinois town in October with a carousel that can make you younger or older. Two boys and one father stand against Mr. Dark.
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Mythago Wood
In an English wood after the Second World War, a man finds the forest bringing myths to life from his family's unconscious, including the woman his brother loves.
Three Hearts and Three Lions
A Danish resistance fighter in 1943 is thrown into a world of Carolingian legend, where he is a hero he has forgotten.
The Magicians
A brilliant, unhappy Brooklyn teenager is admitted to a secret college of magic. He then finds that the land from his favorite childhood books is real.
Bridge of Birds
When the children of his village fall into an enchanted sleep, young Number Ten Ox hires the aged, disreputable sage Master Li. Their hunt for the Great Root of Power crosses a China that never was.
Grendel
The monster from Beowulf tells his own story. He is lonely, mocking and searching for meaning in the meadhall's songs.
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Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.