Theodora Goss Books in Order

This annual anthology gathers nearly four dozen fantasy and horror stories and poems, ranging from reworked fairy-tale material and magical realism to gothic and darker fiction. It also surveys the field through editorial overviews, coverage of comics, anime, and manga, and an honorable-mentions list.

Sixteen fantasy stories explore haunting encounters and transformations in imagined worlds. This collection brings together Goss’s early fiction, tracing the uneasy connections between ordinary lives, memory, and the strange possibilities that emerge when familiar boundaries shift.

Edited by Mike Allen, this anthology combines fantasy stories and poetry that rework myths and fairy tales. Contributions explore grief, family bonds, monsters, and historical horrors, moving between comic invention and darker reinterpretations of familiar traditions.

This second Mike Allen anthology brings together fantasy prose and poetry from multiple writers. Its varied pieces feature an unstable sorcerer, unexpected sirens, speaking deserts, and strange afterlives, exploring mythic possibilities through eerie and playful inventions.

The nineteenth annual volume gathers nearly four dozen fantasy and horror stories and poems, moving from fairy-tale retellings and magical realism to gothic and more disturbing work. It is supplemented by the editors’ survey of the field, features on graphic novels, anime, and manga, and honorable mentions.

A meeting in a village bookstore connects Evelyn Morgan and Brendan Thorne through a medieval romance. Told from each lover’s perspective, their mysterious relationship unfolds around secrets and the possibility that an old story echoes their own lives.

Reporter Nell investigates the disappearance of girls from Sacramento, describing her search in letters to her sister. Traveling under an assumed identity leads her into Oz, where the missing girls' story takes an unexpected direction.

Eighty poems follow the changing seasons through fairy-tale landscapes populated by lovers, mothers, magical animals, and transformed figures. The collection explores love, loss, and longing through encounters that connect familiar human emotions with an imagined world of enchantment.

Penniless Mary Jekyll searches for Edward Hyde, hoping a reward will solve her financial troubles. With Sherlock Holmes's help, she meets other women shaped by disturbing experiments and investigates murders linked to their fathers' secrets.

A message about Lucinda Van Helsing's kidnapping sends Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club across Europe. Their rescue mission pits the daughters of notorious scientists against new experiments and the secretive Alchemical Society's expanding ambitions.

Eight stories and twenty-three poems revisit familiar fairy tales from new perspectives, giving women greater control over their stories. Shadow-seeking students, a kitchenmaid, and a sea witch confront the bargains, expectations, and dangers woven into their worlds.

Returning from Europe, the Athena Club discovers that kitchen maid Alice and Sherlock Holmes have vanished. Mary Jekyll and her companions investigate kidnappings connected to a conspiracy threatening Queen Victoria and the future of Britain.

Stories and poems revisit folk and fairy tales through figures seeking love, identity, or escape. Combining selections from earlier collections with new work, the book follows stepsisters, witches, enchanted travelers, and other characters whose familiar stories take unexpected forms.

These stories explore invented countries, alternative lives, and hidden worlds, from rebellious folklore characters to a reporter who discovers Oz. Influenced by Goss’s Hungarian childhood, the collection connects fantastic places with questions of identity, power, and storytelling.