A historical fantasy set in medieval Russia about a young girl who perceives and interacts with household spirits and older folk-magic as organized Christianity gains influence and seeks to suppress those practices.

A mythic quest grounded in retold folktales: characters pursue a dangerous treasure tied to legends and magical creatures, with the search itself creating the central pressure. The story frames action and danger through folkloric motifs and encounters with dragons and other mythic beings, driving both plot and stakes.

A modern adolescent discovers a tie to the old Greek gods and is thrust into a quest that mixes mythic monsters with contemporary urban life. The immediate pressure is a mission across landmarks to resolve a theft and personal mystery while learning who to trust.

A teenage temple girl destined for ritual sacrifice is rescued by a traveling wizard and becomes his apprentice and covert operative. Trained as an assassin and charged with locating a lost artifact, she confronts shifting loyalties when she meets a young mage who complicates her attachments and mission.

A ragged group raised inside a mysterious library that holds strange powers must confront secrets about their teacher, the library’s rules, and the wider world beyond.

A witch who has lived a lonely, semi-transient life in the UK posts playful videos roleplaying as a tea-shop magic proprietor.

A West African–inspired YA fantasy about a sixteen-year-old girl who fails a compulsory purity rite and is declared impure when she bleeds gold.

A compact English-set tale shaped by a disappearance and the effort to reconstruct what happened. The narrative assembles documents, testimony, and close third-person focus to press on how absence reshapes memory, suspicion, and local rumor.

A landscape deity—an old hill-god—narrates events around a contested succession and a prince trying to reclaim his position with the help of a loyal retainer. In this world many gods exist in animal or landmark form and are bound to make their statements come true, even at great cost.

A man trained from childhood to assassinate a prominent spiritual leader faces the dilemma of carrying out that mission within a city where supernatural "bright doors" intersect everyday life.

Set on a future Mars, the story follows a lowborn miner who infiltrates the ranks of the ruling elite by assuming a false identity.

A contemporary novel shaped like a folktale in which a young woman and those around her navigate consequences after a theft and encounters with trickster spirits. The setup focuses on moral complications inside domestic relationships and the social effects of magic on everyday life.