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The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, best-selling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales.

Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations.

When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: No one will ever believe what she sees. When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding.

Royal politics interfere with childhood sweethearts finding their happily-ever-after. The heartbroken maiden decides to take matters into her own hands and find a new true love to drag back to the family's underwater home in a black lagoon. Just like dear old Dad once did. 'Na pities the girl—until she sets her sights on Ambrose. Especially when true love's kiss doesn't seem to cure the magic that threatens to curse them both to be watery creatures…permanently.

Als Julian Felina kennenlernt, ahnt er nicht, in was für eine Welt er da eingedrungen ist. Der Glitzerseewald, der so friedlich scheint, birgt manches Geheimnis. Felina darf eigentlich nicht mit Menschen sprechen, doch der Junge geht ihr nicht aus dem Kopf. Ein vergifteter Pfeil erschüttert die Idylle und die Jagd nach dem Mörder hält das Elfenvolk in Atem. Auf dem Weg in die Vergangenheit stolpern sie über eine alte Schuld, die längst vergessene Wunden aufreißt und ihre Überzeugungen ins Wanken bringt. Wer kann hinter die Maske sehen und den Feind im Freund erkennen?

The Village Avalar is being attacked! But the Druid Wizard Whist can't perform magic because his staff crystal has lost its powers. So he enlists his good friends, "The Blue Knights of the Realm", to go on a epic quest to fix it.

The Kingdom of Saphalite is watched over by the nature deities The Lady of Waterfalls and Father Tempest. During a storm, an impulsive decision will change the fate of Saphalite forever. The two deities are worshipped, and the kingdom is ruled by the kind King Darius and the wise Queen Freya. Their two sons Darrow and Bowen have differing approaches to ruling, especially with their parents going away on a brief vacation. They also have contrasting opinions regarding their hair.

When five hikers set out to explore the forgotten trails, they expect a weekend of fresh air, laughter, and maybe a local ghost story or two. But the higher they climb, the quieter the woods become. No phone signal. No help. Just the trees, the cold, and the feeling that they're not alone. What begins as an off-the-grid camping trip slowly twists into something far more brutal. There's something in the forest—something ancient, predatory, and starving. As the night deepens, the group finds themselves hunted, one by one, by a nightmare no story ever got quite right.

A princess suffering from too many makeovers comes to the enchanted castle, seeking help in finding her inner beauty. The search for the right magic to help her leads 'Na and her new friend to a room of torture—otherwise known as a beauty parlor—where they accidentally open a box chained shut for 50 years. What they find inside, and who is responsible for the prisoner, threatens to change preconceived notions of true beauty.

Cooking has always been my passion, but at forty-nine years old, I’ve come to terms with the fact that not everyone can appreciate a truly magnificent dish. Until I walked straight into the magical world of Innothlig. Here, the gods are worshiped through food, and only the most talented chefs can hold their own at the prestigious and highly competitive cooking academies. I don’t know how I ended up in this world, or how I’m suddenly back in my twenty-five-year-old body.

If 'Na and Ambrose could have things their way, their wedding would be small, simple, and reserved just for their closest friends. However, the wedding of the daughter of the lord and lady of the enchanted castle threatens to be an important event of world-shaking proportions. And Circe-Beth, 'Na's nemesis from her school days, is determined to not just take center stage, but get some revenge on anybody who doesn't do things her way.

When a rarely-used portal opens into the enchanted forest, the inhabitants of the enchanted castle and the local werewolf tribe go on the alert. The invaders include a wolf, a girl in a red hooded cloak, and a woodsman with a magical silver axe. 'Na and Zella ride out on Smedley the dragon to help this damsel of distress, and land in the middle of a tangled tale of deception, greed, and warped magic. To make things really complicated, a magical wolf mask kept locked up in the castle has started to howl.

I feared that using my magic would bring me closer to the faerie realm I tried so desperately to escape. I was right. I made a promise to a faerie, and they’ve come to deliver. A powerful talisman has disappeared, and without it, the faeries in this realm are losing their magic. Getting involved wasn't on my plan, but if I refuse to help the faeries find the talisman, I’ll die.

The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle is a thrilling and imaginative fairy tale rooted in Eastern folklore and classic heroic fantasy. Written by W.F. O’Connor, this enchanting story follows a young prince born of magical means, who is bound by a dangerous pact made by his father with a disguised ogre.

"The Secret Garden" is Frances Hodgson Burnett's most beloved and popular book, a childre's classic that has been adapted dozens of times for the stage and screen. When Mary Lennox — an ill-tempered and lonely orphan — is sent to live with her gloomy uncle in England, her future prospects appear dim. Her only companions are her cousin Colin, who is wheelchair bound, and the local boy Dickon Sowerby...and none of the children seem to have anything in common.

Velina has escaped the workhouse on the hunt for one thing: the witch who can grant her wish to live a normal life. Born with silver hair and noticeably pointy ears, she's passed from workhouse to workhouse since she can remember—shunned for her mysterious heritage. But the witch’s cottage she finds at the edge of the wood is abandoned, and as soon as she starts making herself at home, someone else comes calling: a noble with a wish of his own. With the promise of his coin, she agrees to help him when she starts noticing something strange about the cottage.

An orphaned child and captive scullery maid, young Willadene possesses an uncanny ability to sense and understand the magical odors that pervade her world. It is this remarkable talent—or curse—that carries her far from the fetid kitchen into an apprenticeship with a revered herbalist and ultimately to the highest circles of the Ducal court. But there is depravity lurking within the castle’s walls, inspiring brazen treacheries and usurpations—and foul abduction as unthinkable as it is unexpected.

Zwei Männer finden im Wald etwas Wertvolles, in einem Turm auf einer Burg wird ein Schatz entdeckt und in einem Buch aus dem Mittelalter wird eine unglaubliche Geschichte erzählt. Ein Team von Archäologen aus Oldenburg muss nun all diese Fundstücke und Ereignisse miteinander in Einklang bringen. Dabei machen sie eine Entdeckung, die ihr Leben verändern wird. Dies ist eine Geschichte voller Liebe, Hass, Eifersucht, Mord und Rache.

Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents-both gods, albeit minor ones-she dreams of leaving her family's island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home.

On his deathbed, the 400-year-old emperor of Atlantis has reason to worry. Signar, the savage ruler of a powerful outlying state, is scheming to seize control of the empire, and not even its advanced technology can save it. Signar will halt his invasion if he can take the emperor’s daughter, the beautiful Empress Salustra, as his bride. Such a marriage contradicts the deepest feelings of Salustra’s heart, the secret wisdom of her lineage, and her sacred trust as Atlantis’s queen. But the emperor has a plan: Salustra will seduce Signar and then sentence him to death.