Books like Shadows linger by Glen Cook

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The Gunslinger opens Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower saga. It follows Roland Deschain, last gunslinger, as he pursues the Man in Black across a vast desert, gathering allies like five‑year‑old Jake Chambers.

An unforgettable love story in a future overrun by genetic engineering.

The story of two boys and their dark journey through a haunted carnival

When an emperor is assassinated, his children must survive, seek vengeance, and follow divergent paths: one to monastic solitude, another to elite warfare, and a third to political leadership.

A thief, a liar, a murderer, and a braggart become the hero of humanity as he battles the forces of an ancient god in a quest for a magical book.

Swords in the Mist is the third book in Fritz Leiber's popular Lankhmar series, continuing the adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in the grim and complex world of medieval fantasy.

The Red Knight is a battle-hardened hire‑ling whose skill, lineage and luck keep him alive as he leads mercenaries against wyvern‑patrolled wilds and protects a nunnery under threat.

Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy is a three-novel science fiction series by Robert Anton Wilson that explores the consequences of quantum physics through the perspective of different universes and parallel worlds, featuring transsexual protagonist Epicene Wildeblood and numerous other characters. The one-volume edition, missing several chapters, is a condensed version of the original trilogy. Each book includes themes of quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and consciousness influencing the collapse of wave functions.

In the high Dragon's Teeth, beyond the chilling Werewind and the legendary fires of the world's beginning, the lonely keep of Windtower watches over Castle Fangdred. From here the Star Rider sparks a war feared even by wizards, fought for a woman’s one‑hundred‑lifetime love for Princess Nepanthe of the Stormkings.

A war-torn kingdom faces the looming apocalypse, as the future of the world hangs in the balance between a prophetic prophecy and a treacherous plot. A father’s legacy and a thousandfold thought await the brave Anasurimbor Kellhus to determine the fate of the world. The war rages on between the Men of theTusk and the Scylvendi barbarian, as the world’s fate is decided by the last man standing.

In a world invaded by evil spirits, a brave African elder must team up with government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty woman named Merry Sharrow to stop the shetani and save reality.

An anthology of reimagined classic tales featuring best-selling authors and new twists on old favorites.

A scientist and archaeologist collide in a race to protect Earth from alien threats.

A collection of Anne McCaffrey short stories spanning science‑fiction and fantasy, each prefaced with the author’s reflections on her motivations and insights.

Two novellas: a young writer discovers a nostalgic community, and a man prepares for a first interstellar hunt.

Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the place--not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily like her own. Yet Elsewhere harbors dark secrets--and Morton, an undersized boy with an outsize temper. As she and Morton form an uneasy alliance, Olive finds herself ensnared in a plan darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. It's up to Olive to save the house from the dark shadows, before the lights go out for good.

Eleven‑year‑old Olive and her parents move into a Victorian mansion, where mysterious paintings, a temperamental nine‑year‑old, and three talking cats reveal a dark plan that blurs magic, time and space.