Theodora Goss

The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club

1 - The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (Jun-2017)
2 - European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Jul-2018)

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  Letters From An Imaginary Country
  

  • Nov-2025
  • / Fantasy
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  Roam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke’s alternate Europe and the sur...

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  The Collected Enchantments
  

  • Feb-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  A monumental career retrospectiveThis vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The [poems and stories] span the length of Goss's career ... All ...

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  Medusa's Daughters
  

  • Apr-2020
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  “The witchy women are Medusa’s daughters indeed -- their gaze kills. But rather than sending heroes to slay them, the writers of this collection celebrate the deadliness of these femmes fatales.”After a period of decline, Gothic literature unde...

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  A Country Called Winter
  

  • 2020
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
  

  • Oct-2019
  • / Fantasy
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  Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Life’s always an ad...

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  Snow White Learns Witchcraft
  

  • Feb-2019
  • / Fantasy
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  Now updated with an additional poem!

  "I was expecting this to be good, but it's wonderful. Seeing these pieces together makes me realize what a vivid, authentic and important voice Goss is. These are real fairytales, magical, unsettling, t...

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  European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Historical
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  The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - 2
  

  In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature’s mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop ...

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  The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
  

  • Jun-2017
  • / Fantasy
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  The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - 1
  

  Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders and the bigger mystery of their own origins. Mary Jekyll, a...

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  Come See the Living Dryad
  

  • Mar-2017
  • / Fantasy
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  "Come See the Living Dryad" by Theodora Goss is a fantasy about a contemporary woman investigating the murder of an ancestor suffering from a rare disease who was a famous sideshow attraction in the nineteenth century.At the Publisher's request, thi...

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  Red as Blood and White as Bone
  

  • May-2016
  • / Dark Fantasy
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  Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy tales, who upon discovering a ragged woman outside the castle during a storm, takes her in--certain she’s a princess in disguise.At the Publi...

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  The Thorn and the Blossom
  

  • Jan-2012
  • / Literary
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  One enchanting romance. Two lovers keeping secrets. And a uniquely crafted book that binds their stories forever. When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn't know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed...

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  Csilla's Story
  

  in Other Earths

  • Apr-2009
  • / Fantasy
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  ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * JEFF VANDERMEER STEPHEN BAXTER * THEODORA GOSS LIZ WILLIAMS * GENE WOLFE GREG VAN EEKHOUT * ALASTAIR REYNOLDS PAUL PARK * LUCIUS SHEPARD BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Alternate history explores the many possible directions our wo...

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  In the Forest of Forgetting
  

  • Mar-2007
  • / Fantasy
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  In the Forest of Forgetting showcases such stories as "The Rose in Twelve Petals," "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow," "Lily, With Clouds," "In the Forest of Forgetting," "Sleeping With Bears" and many more, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cove...

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  Queen Lily
  

  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Award-Winning Books by Theodora Goss

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
2018 Locus Award -- First Novel