Books like Seanan Mcguire's Wayward Children, Volumes 1-3 by Seanan McGuire

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

Harrow the Ninth follows the final necromancer of the Ninth House as she is drafted by an Emperor to wage an unwinnable war, battle rival sorcerers, and confront threats that could destroy the galaxy.

A young book‑lover discovers a hidden library that leads to the underground Starless Sea, where he meets a painter and a stranger who guide him through a labyrinth of stories, romance, and a battle for the fate of the secret world.

Alex Stern, a troubled freshman from Los Angeles, earns a full scholarship to Yale after surviving a brutal homicide. Under the guise of monitoring secret societies, she uncovers a dark supernatural world lurking beneath the university's elite.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

January Scaller, a forgotten ward in a vast mansion, discovers a mysterious book that opens doors to other worlds, intertwining her fate with adventure, love, and peril.

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Caseworker Linus travels to a remote orphanage to investigate ragged kids and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, only to discover that the island’s magical children—and his own heart—are part of something larger than he imagined.

Georgia Mason is held hostage by CDC researchers in 2041, struggling to escape post-zombie America.

A chilling ghost story about five orphans gathering around a terrifying box in Texas.

October "Toby" Daye, a woman private investigator and former knight, must confront goblin fruit‑infused changelings in San Francisco to reverse an exile decree and uncover a conspiratorial Queen of the Mists.

Creeping Jenny, by Jeff Noon, combines mystery, horror, fantasy, and dark fantasy into a single fictional work set within the realm of speculative imagination today.

A collection of dark fantasy short stories by Jane Yolen that explores the uncanny and eerie aspects of the imaginative world.

"FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story ... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those afflicted with a single uncontrollable impulse: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons, surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows."-- In 2014 we cured cancer, beat the common cold-- and unleashed an infection that unleashed an uncontrollable impulse to feed. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons. Surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows, they hit the presidential campaign trail to uncover dangerous truths... or die trying.

Sarah Zellaby, a telepathic ambush predator from the InCryptid series, faces a new level of power after a transformational ‘instar’. Stranded in an unfamiliar dimension with allies who have forgotten her, she must confront hostile cuckoos and redefine her identity.