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Fairy Tale

You'll enjoy these titles because: they combine dark fantasy or portal fantasy elements with the real world, resulting in compelling stories with excellent world-building and characterization.

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  • Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, but Nancy returned. When tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. No matter the cost.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates, 2016. — FIC MCGUIRE
  • When wounded WWI soldier Alex meets an alluring widow rumored to be a witch, she warns him to steer clear of the woods and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help being drawn to its mysteries.
    Book, 2011New York : Tor, 2011. — FIC MATHESO
  • The grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist moves with his wife into an old English manor and finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject.
    Book, 2018Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] — FIC BAILEY
  • Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
    Book, 2006New York : Atria Books, c2006. — FIC CONNOLL
  • One morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real, and they want everyone to know it.
    Book, 2021Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2021. — FIC TURNBUL
  • Kate flees an abusive relationship with her young son, Christopher and settles in a tight-knit Pennsylvania community, where Christopher soon vanishes, emerging six days later with a voice in his head and a mission.
    Book, 2019New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. — FIC CHBOSKY
  • Living in a Victorian countryside town overshadowed by an imposing stone barrier, Tristran is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses to the wondrous other side of the barrier.
    Book, 2016[New York] : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — FIC GAIMAN
  • A volunteer pallbearer for poorly attended funerals, teenage Art meets a cool girl who has an obsessive knowledge of strange, terrifying things that he tries to make sense of years later while writing a book.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — FIC TREMBLA
  • This story follows five different people who disappear through a mysterious door in an unassuming alleyway that leads to Slade House, owned by a peculiar set of siblings, and vanish completely from the outside world.
    Book, 2015New York : Random House, [2015] — FIC MITCHEL
  • Prepare to be dazzled by a world where London is the link between parallel universes - where magic thrives, starves or lies forgotten, and where power can destroy just as quickly as it can create.
    Book, 2015New York : Tor, 2015. — FIC SCHWAB
  • A companion to "Middlegame" tells the story of two exceptional children on an unplanned detour that finds them in a fantastical world of talking trees, sarcastic owls and dangerous magical locals.
    Book, 2020New York : Tor Com, 2020. — FIC BAKER
  • Embarking on a quest in alternate-world dimensions to save her lost daughter, a heartbroken mother is challenged to give up something precious in exchange, from a song or memory to her own personal freedom.
    Book, 2020London : Gollancz, 2020. — FIC HARRIS