This is a long shot but it's been 10 years and I'm still looking for this book so any help would be very appreciated. This book is based around a kingdom, more specifically its princess. She grows up being taught never to go into the forests because they are seen as dangerious because of the fair...

In Mortyplicity, doubtless eons after the events involving the numerous Decoy Families, Glockenspiel Jerry (I was thinking of them as puppets/marionettes -- not sure why called that) who has been largely dismantled by beavers and probably worn by time, is discovered by what is described as dolphi...

I read this short story at least 30 years ago, in a collection. Each story of the collection had an afterword. This story begins by the description by two scientists (sociologists ?) of an experiment: two identical twin brothers will be raised in completely different environments and when adult t...

Looking for a book I read in the early 2000s. I believe it was a standalone novel and new at the time. The cover may have been primarily brown with gold lettering. There's definitely a Buffy feel to it, with our normal-appearing heroine falling for a vampire-with-the-soul. It's not a romance. It ...

Within the Encyclopedia Iranica some French research papers are cited that allude to a Chinese source text by "Yan-king-fu". The relevance is that the days of the week were written in Sogdian: The planetary week was introduced in China by the Manichean Sogdians with the original Iranian names of...

I suspect that I'm just a few keywords away from figuring this one out, but I either listened to an audiobook of this, or read an ebook, in August of 2022 or 2023 because I remember partaking of it during nighttime walks during a family trip to Ocean City. The male lead is a mythology professor a...

I only saw the untranslated title in a short but this stuck with me. a demon king resurrection event where he's impressed they're using the type of magic he created and the dome shaped hexagon grid protection magic a female side protagonist (rocking Final Fantasy black mage garb iirc) blocks his ...

I am looking for the name of a book I read within the past 5 years about a team of detectives who are on the hunt to catch a murderous criminal in England (I think London but not 100% sure). This murderer commits crimes based on the Christian religious calendar due to a strict Christian upbringin...

I am looking for a title about a little boy who was recently born and has an in-depth affinity for mysticism. In the first couple of chapters, we see him emulate the magic of a couple of individuals (his older sister, for one) and simulate it nearly perfectly. In a RAW chapter, he's then seen rep...

I've had the phrase "you swore on a dead cat?" bouncing around in my head for years, and I think I can trace it back to a short scary story anthology book I read in the third grade, around 2010. I think the book was fairly old at the time, so I'm not sure how much information the year I read it p...

I know there's a TV Tropes page for the series. Chapters were initially released on Royal Road but have since been published on Kindle (and I think removed from Royal Road). The main character is an NPC in a VR, female, maybe an elf. I think her first name starts with a Q. She is the "hero's comp...