Open your eyes and go to sleep said the dragon...
Discover the best books about dragons, eyes, and sleep—from Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber to The Neverending Story. Explore fantasy, vampires, and myth in this curated reading list.
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The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film! From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica? "An instantaneous leap into the magical . . . Energetic, innovative, and perceptive"—The Washington Post "A trumpet blast for the imagination."—Sunday Times
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The Bloody Chamber, and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
A reissue of a collection of short stories first published ten years ago.
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The Vampire in Verse
by Steven Moore
This collection of poetry about vampires includes works by Goethe, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Baudelaire, Kipling, Fitzgerald, Yeats, and more.
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I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother--
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