The Road to Hell is Paved With Bad Intentions
Vicky LoebelTags: humor urban-fantasy
The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum
Vicky LoebelTags: humor urban-fantasy
He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.
Sophie JordanTags: romance fantasy fiction paranormal young-adult urban-fantasy shapeshifters draki
Artık bir birliğimiz var. Bir ismimiz yok, birçok ismimiz var. Hayalciler... Sıfırlar... Varolmayanlar... Yoklar... Yarım yamalaklar... Hayalperestler... Olmayanlar... Hiçler... Biz onlar gibi değiliz!
Doğu YücelTags: urban-fantasy doğu-yücel varolmayanlar
Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn’t trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he’d been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill.
I argued that certain stories are also capable of changing lives, addressing some of the same problems and issues he confronted in his daily work: problems of poverty, violence, and alienation, issues of culture, race, gender, and class...
“Stories aren’t real,” he told me shortly. “They don’t feed a kid left home in an empty house. Or keep an abusive relative at bay. Or prevent an unloved child from finding ‘family’ in the nearest gang.”
Sometimes they do, I tried to argue. The right stories, read at the right time, can be as important as shelter or food. They can help us to escape calamity, and heal us in its aftermath. He frowned, dismissing this foolishness, but his wife was more conciliatory. “Write down the names of some books,” she said. “Maybe we’ll read them.”
I wrote some titles on a scrap of paper, and the top three were by Charles de lint – for these are precisely the kind of tales that Charles tells better than anyone. The vital, necessary stories. The ones that can change and heal young lives. Stories that use the power of myth to speak truth to the human heart.
Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the “magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people from troubled backgrounds say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going.
Recently I saw that parole officer again, and I asked after his work. “Gets harder every year,” he said. “Or maybe I’m just getting old.” He stopped me as I turned to go. “That writer? That Charles de Lint? My wife got me to read them books…. Sometimes I pass them to the kids.”
“Do they like them?” I asked him curiously.
“If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them: Stories are important.”
And then he looked at me and smiled.
Tags: books fantasy childhood myth folklore charles-de-lint urban-fantasy power-of-stories magical-realism mythic-fiction troubled-backgrounds
If a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk into a bar, you wait for the punch line. At Private Eye, when a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk through the door, it’s just another day at the office.
E.J. StevensTags: vampires demons faeries urban-fantasy ivy-granger
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: young-adult urban-fantasy
His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone
he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?
Tags: humor science-fiction horror urban-fantasy
Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.
Tags: love history adventure romance fantasy paranormal-romance fiction fairy-tales magic action novel paranormal greek-mythology young-adult mythology coming-of-age camelot mermaid wizards time-travel ya merlin sword poseidon arthurian teen retellings urban-fantasy women-s-fiction ya-fantasy sword-and-sorcery ya-paranormal ya-romance arthurian-collection sea-creatures
He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.
Tags: love history adventure romance fantasy paranormal-romance fiction fairy-tales magic action novel paranormal greek-mythology young-adult mythology coming-of-age camelot mermaid wizards time-travel ya merlin sword poseidon arthurian teen retellings urban-fantasy women-s-fiction ya-fantasy sword-and-sorcery ya-paranormal ya-romance arthurian-collection sea-creatures
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