An elderly scholar is struck by lightning and awakens to a second youth, setting off a philosophical quest…
Category
Fantasy
Fiction involving supernatural elements or imaginary worlds.
21 summaries
A philosophical fantasy by Jostein Gaarder about a boy's journey through a mysterious mirrored world of wonder and…
A Victorian supernatural tale set in medieval Italy, part of William Gilbert's Innominato cycle about a benevolent wizard.
A nameless medieval wizard uses his powers to help others in these Victorian supernatural tales.
A philosophical fantasy of two interlocking stories and a deck of living cards by Jostein Gaarder.
A solo fantasy gamebook in which the reader plays Pip, sent by Merlin to collect a debt from…
A collection of five strange tales by Helena Blavatsky, mixing clairvoyance, magic mirrors, and a violinist's diabolical bargain.
The reader is called not to explain away the fantastic but to respond to it with the whole…
A seven-year-old girl's favorite sock vanishes, sparking a question that pulls her into a fantastical world woven from…
Kuranes, a man of English landed gentry, created the city of Celephaïs in a dream as a child…
Fantastiska fabler is a Swedish-language collection of fables attributed to the author Ambrose.
The work is presented as a first-person account of a young man named Lucius, who, through a disastrous…
Lucian's Wonderland is a fantastical travel narrative attributed to Lucian of Samosata, the second-century Greek satirist.
The tale appears in Chapter 5 of Part One of Heinrich von Ofterdingen, told to the protagonist Heinrich…
This work is Thomas Carlyle's English translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Das Märchen, originally published in 1795.