early modern fantasy
Explore the best early modern fantasy books with our curated list. Discover timeless tales, magical worlds, and legendary authors that defined the genre. Perfect for fantasy lovers!
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The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
Princess Irene's discovery of a secret stair to the top turret of the castle leads to a wonderful revelation. At the same time, the miner's …
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Phantastes
by George Macdonald
Anodos enters a dream-like fairyland of tree-spirits and magic, where he searches for the spirit of the Earth.
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The Wood Beyond the World
by William Morris
Wonderful fantasy set in medieval never-never land reprinted from famous Kelmscott Press edition. Morris was source behind Dunsany, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc.
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The King of Elfland's Daughter
by Lord Dunsany
“No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm.”—H.P. Lovecraft With an introduction by Neil Gaiman The poetic …
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The Moonchild
by Aleister Crowley
Crowley's most famous novel. A young girl is drawn into a magical war between two men and is forced to choose between them. The reader …
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Jurgen
by James Branch Cabell
One of the most-talked-about works of the 1920s, this compelling fantasy recounts the odyssey of a middle-aged pawnbroker who regains his youth for a year …
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Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King “The oldest and strongest emotion of …
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The Sea Priestess
by Dion Fortune
The Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan- a practicing initiate …
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Titus Groan
by Mervyn Peake
Classics of epic fantasy, Peakes series of Gormenghast novels represents one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of Gothic imagination. For the first time in …
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Out of the Silent Planet
by C.S. Lewis
The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the …
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The Lord of the Rings
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit …