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A lyrical wander through city streets where ancient myths and modern margins collide. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Dreams Underfoot.
- ethereal
- gritty
- wistful
- shadowed
- 01
Waifs and strays
Charles de Lint · 2002
A heartfelt collection of magical coming-of-age tales that reveals the ancient wonder hidden just beneath the surface of everyday life.
- 02
Welcome to Bordertown
Holly Black and Ellen Kushner
An electric, bohemian anthology where gritty street life collides with wild elfin magic.
- 03
A Wizard's Dozen
Michael Stearns
A spellbinding collection of thirteen magical tales that brews a heady mix of wonder and enchantment.
- 04
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 05
Green grass, running water
Thomas King · 1993
A playful, mythic tapestry where creation stories and contemporary lives collide to rewrite history with a wry smile.
- 06
The House of Shattered Wings
Aliette de Bodard
A dark, ash-choked descent into a ruined city where fallen angels and desperate magic-users cling to the remnants of power.
- 07
The Dirty Streets Of Heaven
Tad Williams
A gritty, neon-soaked supernatural noir where the afterlife is just another corrupt bureaucracy and the angels are as world-weary as the demons.
- 08
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
A darkly whimsical plunge into a grimy, magical metropolis hidden just beneath the cracks of the ordinary world.
- 09
Swordspoint
Ellen Kushner · 1986
A velvet-draped, blood-spattered dance of deadly politics and messy, fiercely devoted romance.
- 10
Lud-in-the-mist
Hope Mirrlees
A beautifully melancholic fairy tale about the quiet terror and absolute necessity of letting a little wildness into a perfectly ordered life.
- 11
Wheel of the infinite
Martha Wells · 2000
A high-stakes magical journey of lost faith, where a forsaken voice must return to save a world on the brink of shattering.
- 12
The Sandman - Book of Dreams
Neil Gaiman · 1996
A shadowy, hallucinatory descent into the realm of human consciousness and myth.
