I was sitting around
yesterday evening thinking about the Shadow Library and lamenting some books
that, for one reason or another, I no longer have. There are a few (by no means
all) that, if I could have them again by merely wishing and had the room for
them all, I would take back. Probably not to pay money for all of them, mind
you. So I went and made this list of about 150 books I wouldn’t mind
having once more. Some are classics, some are for research, and some are just
sentimental picks. They are by no means the entire Shadow Library and are in no
particular order.
Satyrday, by Steven Bauer
Sea Monsters, by Walter
Buehr
Barchester Towers & The
Warden, by Anthony Trollope (A Modern Library Book)
Maxfield Parrish … Coy
Ludwig
Howard Pyle … Henry C. Pitz
The Hero with a Thousand
Faces … Joseph Campbell
The Uses of Enchantment …
Bruno Bettelheim
Barlowe’s Guide to
Extraterrestrials; Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy … Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Pictorial History of
Philosophy … Dagobert D. Runes
The Steel Bonnets … George
Macdonald Fraser
Medieval and Tudor Drama …
John Gassner, Ed.
Elizabethan Drama …
(Anthology of Plays)
The Poems of Francois Villon
… (Signet Classic)
The Waste Land and Other
Poems … T. S. Eliot
Four Quartets … T. S. Eliot
Old Possum’s Book of
Practical Cats … T. S. Eliot, Edward Gorey
Fireside Book of Folk Songs
… Margaret Bradford Boni (ed.)
Mickelsson's Ghosts ... John
Gardner
Bullwhip Griffin … Sid
Fleischman
The Shaggy Dog … Elizabeth
L. Griffen
The Mystery in Dracula’s
Castle … Vic Crume
Bridge to Terabithia …
Katherine Paterson
The Coming of Conan the
Cimmerian; The Best of Robert E. Howard Vol. I: Crimson Shadows; The Best of
Robert E. Howard Vol. II: Grim Lands; Bran Mak Morn: The Last King; The
Conquering Sword of Conan; The Bloody Crown of Conan; The Horror Stories of
Robert E. Howard; Kull: Exile of Atlantis; The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane …
Robert E. Howard
The Riot at Bucksnort and
Other Western Tales; The Black Stranger and Other American Tales; El Borak and
Other Desert Adventures; Boxing Stories … Robert E. Howard
The Blade of Conan … L.
Sprague de Camp (ed.)
The Spell of Conan … L.
Sprague de Camp (ed.)
The Dune Encyclopedia …
Willis E. McNelly
The Illuminatus! Trilogy …
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy …
Robert Anton
Wilson
Masks of the Illuminati …
Robert Anton Wilson
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy*; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe, and
Everything; So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish; Mostly Harmless … Douglas
Adams
The Lost Books of the Bible
and The Forgotten Books of Eden … Rutherford Hayes Platt, Brett Alden
Shadowland … Peter Straub
The Great God Pan & The
Hill of Dreams … Arthur Machen
The House of the Wulfings;
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair; The Roots of the Mountains … William
Morris
Five Children and It, The
Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet (1 Volume) … E. Nesbit
Complete Works of Lewis
Carroll … Alexander Woollcott (intro)
Dwellers in the Mirage; The
Black Wheel; The Face in the Abyss; The Ship of Ishtar; The Fox Woman and other
stories … A. Merritt
Wisdom’s Daughter; She and
Allan; Ayesha: The Return of She … H. Rider Haggard
Prince of Annwn; The
Children of Llyr; The Song of Rhiannon; The Island of the Mighty … Evangeline
Walton
The Gray Wolf (and other
fantasy stories); The Wise Woman … George Macdonald
The Epic of Kings … Firdausi
Rural Rides … William
Cobbett
Dragonworld … Byron Priess
& Michael Reaves
Deus Irae … Philip K. Dick
& Roger Zelazny
Labyrinth … A. C. H. Smith
The Dark Crystal … A. C. H.
Smith
The Neverending Story …
Michael Ende
Tales of the Mysterious and
Macabre; Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural … Algernon Blackwood
Middle Ages: Myths and
Legends … Helene A. Guerber
Mythical Monsters … Charles
Gould
Vampires and Vampirism …
Montague Summers
The Werewolf in Lore and
Legend … Montague Summers
The History of Witchcraft
and Demonology … Montague Summers
The Poetic Edda: The Heroic
Poems … Henry Adams Bellows (tr.)
The Prose Edda … Snorri
Sturluson
Gildenfire … Stephen R.
Donaldson
The Chronicles of
Chrestomanci, Vols. I, II, and III; Earwig and the Witch … Diana Wynne Jones
The Dalemark Quartet … Diana
Wynne Jones
The Folk of the Air … Peter
S. Beagle
Shakespeare’s Bawdy … Eric
Partridge
Catch-22 … Joseph Heller
The History of the Church,
by Eusebius (Translated by G. A. Williamson)
Outer Dark; The Road; All
the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian … Cormac McCarthy
The Name of the Rose … Umberto
Eco
The Dragon Path: Collected
Stories of Kenneth Morris (1995). Edited by Douglas A. Anderson
Super-Monsters … Daniel
Cohen
Monsters You Never Heard Of
… Daniel Cohen
Monsters, Giants, and Little
Men from Mars … Daniel Cohen
The Magic Goes Away … Larry
Niven
The Magic May Return … Larry
Niven
King Arthur’s Daughter …
Vera Chapman
The King’s Damosel … Vera
Chapman
Song of Sorcery; The Unicorn
Creed … Elizabeth Scarborough
The Doomfarers of Coramonde;
The Starfollowers of Coramonde … Brian Daley
Myths of Greece and Rome, by
H. A. Guerber
Hrolf Kraki’s Saga … Poul
Anderson
A Voice for Princess; The
Questing of Kedrigern; Kedrigern in Wanderland; Kedrigern and the Charming
Couple; A Remembrance for Kedrigern … John Morressy
The Dark Tide; Shadows of
Doom; The Darkest Day; Trek to Kraggen-Cor; The Brega Path … Dennis McKiernan
The Lure of the Basilisk;
The Seven Altars of DuSarra; The Sword of Bheleu; The Book of Silence …
Lawrence Watt-Evans
The Summer Tree; The
Wandering Fire; The Darkest Road … Guy Gavriel Kay
Pawn of Prophecy; Queen of
Sorcery; Magician’s Gambit; Castle of Wizardry; Enchanter’s End Game … David
Eddings
The Sword and the Satchel;
The Elves and the Otterskin; The Thrall and the Dragon’s Heart; The Wizard and
the Warlord; The Troll’s Grindstone … Elizabeth Boyer
The Time of the Dark; The
Walls of Air; The Armies of Daylight … Barbara Hambly
So You Want to Be a Wizard;
High Wizardry; Deep Wizardry … Diane Duane
A Wizard Abroad … Diane
Duane
The Wizard’s Dilemma … Diane
Duane
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