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The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book by Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTHE QUITE NICE AND FAIRLY ACCURATE GOOD OMENS SCRIPT BOOK contains much that is new and revelatory and even several scenes that are not actually in the final television series...Categorized as:
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![Matilda by Roald Dahl]()
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 87 ratingsMatilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived...Categorized as:
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![Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman]()
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 95 ratings‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day... -
![Hogfather by Terry Pratchett]()
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 64 ratingsSusan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn't that her parents didn't believe in such things. They didn't need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn't.There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses... -
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![Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett]()
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsA Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream... -
![The Witches by Roald Dahl]()
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsThis is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies... -
![The Stranger by Max Frei]()
The Stranger by Max Frei
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe millions-selling fantasy epic of the new Russian literary icon-a freeloading freebooter who finds a new home in a magical world Max Frei's novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have swept the fantasy world over. Presented here in English for the first time, The Stranger will strike a chord with readers of all stripes...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Jefferson Mays]()
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Jefferson Mays
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first timeIn Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn... -
![Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones]()
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsEveryone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including the Evil Enchantress, Wizard Guides, the Dark Lord, Winged Minions, and all... -
![The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams]()
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWhen a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God... -
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Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRupert Venables is a Magid.It's a Magid's job to oversee what goes on in the vast Multiverse. Actually, Rupert is really only a junior Magid. But he's got a king-sized problem. Rupert's territory includes Earth and the Empire of Korfyros. When his mentor dies Rupert must find a replacement. But there are hundreds of candidates...Categorized as:
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![The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]()
The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTony is a nine-year-old horror story addict, so he can hardly believe his luck when a little vampire called Rudolph lands on his windowsill one evening... -
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Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times"I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war." - Noel Coward. Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for years... -
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Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition here.Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her... -
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![Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson]()
Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsArriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North, has decided to marry. But his wife must be a witch of the darkest powers . . -
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Bunnicula by Deborah Howe, James Howe
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBEWARE THE HARE!Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits..Categorized as:
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![Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones]()
Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThere are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch," the students in 6B are nervous -- especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all... -
![Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold by Terry Brooks]()
Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold by Terry Brooks
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsLandover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin. The barons refused to recognize a king and taxes hadn't been collected for years... -
![Dial-a-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson]()
Dial-a-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Dial-a-Ghost Agency finds good homes for ghosts. And Fulton and Frieda Snodde-Brittle are looking for a few frightening ghosts to "accidentally" scare their young cousin and heir, Oliver, to death. The ladies at the Dial-a-Ghost Agency have the perfect match: the Shriekers, two bloodstained and bickering horrors... -
![Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow]()
Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsGod is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award... -
![The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan]()
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. What follows is a series of wild, witty, and bizarre encounters. The book was originally published in 1974... -
![Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett]()
Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Post-life citizens Breath challenged Vertically disadvantaged (buried, not short)" Johnny Maxwell's new friends not appreciate the term "ghosts," but they are, well, "dead,"The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren't about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history... -
![Not Just a Witch by Eva Ibbotson]()
Not Just a Witch by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHeckie is a young, kindly witch with a remarkable ability: She can change anything into an animal. So when she meets a boy, Daniel, after graduating from a good witch school, Heckie and her pal set out to eliminate the world of bad people by changing them into critters... -
![Azazel by Isaac Asimov]()
Azazel by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis story collection contains: The Two-Centimeter Demon; One Night of Song; The Smile That Loses; To the Victor; The Dim Rumble; Saving Humanity; A Matter of Principle; The Evil Drink Does; Writing Time; Dashing Through the Snow; Logic is Logic; He Travels the Fastest; The Eye of the Beholder; More Things in Heaven and Earth; The Mind's Construction; The Flights of Spring; Galatea; and Flight... -
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![The Green Man by Kingsley Amis]()
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaurice Allington, landlord of the Green Man Inn, is the sole witness to the ghostly existence of Dr. Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century sexual deviant and practitioner of the black arts. A desire to vindicate his sanity leads Allington to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic secrets... -
![The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar, Neil Gaiman]()
The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDinnie, an overweight enemy of humanity, was the worst violinist in New York, but was practicing gamely when two cute little fairies stumbled through his fourth-floor window and vomited on the carpet...When a pair of fugitive Scottish thistle fairies end up transplanted to Manhattan by mistake, both the Big Apple and the Little People have a lot of adjusting to do... -
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Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus... -
![The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike]()
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Rated: 3.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsToward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream... -
![Small Gods by Terry Pratchett]()
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsJust because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt... -
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Mort by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 76 ratingsTerry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory...Categorized as:
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