Mythology & Folklore

Melissa Bashardoust’s acclaimed debut novel Girls Made of Snow and Glass is “Snow White as it’s never been told before...a feminist fantasy fairy tale not to be missed” (BookPage)!“Utterly superb.” —ALA Booklist, starred review“Dark, fantastical,...

Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train.Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is...

“A surprise from the author of Chocolat,” New York Times bestselling author Joanne M. Harris, “this pacy adult fantasy is narrated by Loki, the Norse god of fire and mischief” (Vogue).This novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall...

Brit-pop meets Japanese folklore as Shigeru Mizuki summons equal parts humour, spookiness, and sheer absurdityKitaro the Vampire Slayer is the fifth volume in Shigeru Mizuki’s bizarre stories about a yokai boy and his entourage of otherworldly friends...

Kitaro faces off against a swamp monster, a paper screen come to life, and an army of mythical raccoon dogsKitaro and the Great Tanuki War features adventures of Shigeru Mizuki’s beloved yokai boy. In the epic title story, Kitaro battles the tanuki, a...

More bizarre and hilarious adventures with everyone’s favorite one-eyed boy!In the fourth installment of Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series readers meet a whole new cast of yokai monsters, including a giant Cyclops, the villainous Blackbeard, and a malefic...

The spooky yokai boy Kitaro is back for his sixth book, and this time he has a pile of monsters to beat   Featuring seven stories by Japan’s beloved monster master Shigeru Mizuki, Kitaro’s Yokai Battles features some of Kitaro’s strangest foes...

The final showdown for the legendary yokai!In the seventh volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s defining series, our beloved hero Kitaro stands accused of exposing the secret yokai world on television. He is put on trial for crimes against yokai. Witnesses are...

A lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture through the concept of yokai.Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan...

Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history—many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country.Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they were...

The wait is over. The story is here. And even better, it’s book one of a new series! Your reading list just got more adventurous, delicious and fun. From fan-favorite Scarlett St. Clair, the bestselling author of the Hades & Persephone...

From the brilliant mind of A Touch of Darkness's bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair comes a YA crossover in a darkly unique fantasy world.   Anora Silby can see the dead and turn spirits into gold coins, two things she would prefer to keep secret as...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the modern masters of fantasy writing,” (Huffington Post) a dazzling, witty telling of the Norse myths.   "A lively, funny, and very human rendition of Thor the thunder god, his father Odin, and...

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the...

Nigerian God-Punk – a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos.Since the Orisha War that rained thousands of deities down on the streets of Lagos, David Mogo, demigod, scours Eko's dank underbelly for a living wage as a freelance Godhunter...

“If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles TimesNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Harper's Bazaar, Buzzfeed, Ms. Magazine, Lit Hub, The Millions, and Electric LiteratureIn the bustling...

In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer’s classic wartime epic.More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that...

A dazzling, lyrical YA retelling of Greek myth, from Jessie Burton, internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse."A powerfully feminist, elegiac, and original twist on this old story." -Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The...

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review   "[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022‘Peter Fiennes’s road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described’ -- Mary Beard, TLS‘Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece’ -- ObserverWhat...