| 2022-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La maman de Martin |
Morgane Caussarieu |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1), esp (1)
|
| 2022-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
Loup, y es-tu ? |
Nicolas Martin |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2018-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas |
Malon Edwards |
|
|
steampunk (1), alternate history (1), horror (1), child protagonist (1), dark fantasy (1)
|
| 2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muzik di Zumbi |
Akwaeke Emezi |
|
|
music (1), freedom (1), price (1), memory (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), death (1), Curacao (1), second person point of view (1), contemporary (1), dead protagonist (1)
|
| 2018-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall |
Larry Hodges |
|
|
science fiction (1), dark science fiction (1), 4th dimension (1), higher dimensions (1), child protagonist (1), Creepy Child (1)
|
| 2018-05-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The River Street Witch |
Dominik Parisien |
|
|
fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2017-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Brujitas |
Shara Concepción |
|
|
mexico (1), magical realism (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2017-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
If a Bird Can Be a Ghost |
Allison Mills |
|
|
child protagonist (1), ghosts (1), indigenous (1)
|
| 2017-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Old Photographs |
Hannah Onoguwe |
|
|
African speculative fiction (1), fantasy (1), demons (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2017-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
On the Other Side of the Sea |
Nerine Dorman |
|
|
child protagonist (1), post apocalypse (1), science fiction (1), African speculative fiction (1), South Africa (1)
|
| 2017-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shadow Man, Sack Man, Half Dark, Half Light |
Malon Edwards |
|
|
child protagonist (1), steampunk (1), alternate history (1), horror (1), dark fantasy (1)
|
| 2017-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man with No Face |
Jordan King-Lacroix |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2015-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Half Dark Promise |
Malon Edwards |
|
|
steampunk (1), alternate history (1), child protagonist (1), horror (1), dark fantasy (1)
|
| 2014-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Very Mary Christmas |
Phillip Jones (I) |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1), Santa Claus (1)
|
| 2014-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Techne |
E. L. Firestine |
|
|
fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2014-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fracturing |
Wairimu Muriithi |
|
|
African speculative fiction (1), dark fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2014-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
They Sent Runners Out |
Sarah Pinsker |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), magical realism (1)
|
| 2012-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ants Go Marching |
Sarah Pinsker |
|
|
insects (1), ants (1), fantasy (1), surrealism (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2012-07-20 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Twenty Ways the Desert Could Kill You |
Sarah Pinsker |
|
|
science fiction (1), survival (1), Pre apocalypse (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2009-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Big Girl |
Mary Rodgers (I) |
|
|
fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2009-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
Contagion (excerpt) |
Scott Sigler |
|
|
horror (1), science fiction (1), alien invasion (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2009-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rise of the Crimson Queen |
Linda DeMeulemeester |
|
|
fantasy (1), wishes (1), fairies (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2008-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Contagious |
Scott Sigler |
|
|
alien invasion (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2008-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lady in the Salad Dressing |
Kasja Wiberg |
|
|
child protagonist (1), horror (1)
|
| 2008-08-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
My Little Brother Turns Nine |
Nathan Rosen |
|
|
horror (1), possession (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2007-09-04 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Drone War |
K. V. Johansen |
|
|
child protagonist (1), young-adult sf (1), science fiction (1), computers (1)
|
| 2007-05-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Zinder |
Tanith Lee |
|
|
fantasy (1), wizards (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2006-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
MirrorMask |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
juvenile fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 2006-03-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Cassandra Virus |
K. V. Johansen |
|
|
child protagonist (1), young-adult sf (1), science fiction (1), computers (1)
|
| 2006-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Where the Golden Apples Grow |
Kage Baker |
|
|
hard sf (1), juvenile (1), mars (1), only humans (1), terraforming (1), social commentary (1), frontier society (1), science fiction (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2000-04-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
French |
La porte ouverte: Histoires de fantômes d'enfants |
Norbert Gaulard and |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1999-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mars Is No Place for Children |
Mary A. Turzillo |
|
|
child protagonist (1), science fiction (1), mars (1), Afrofuturism (1), cancer (1), leukemia (1), colonization (1), indenture (1), indentured servitude (1), childhood (1), epistolary (1)
|
| 1999-04-00 |
CHAPBOOK |
French |
Petit théâtre de brouillard |
Gudule |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
Les ombres du jardin |
Serge Brussolo |
|
|
child protagonist (1)
|
| 1994-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Martian Childhood |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
science fiction (1), mars (1), child protagonist (1), sabotage (1), terraforming (1)
|
| 1992-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Alfred |
Lisa Goldstein |
|
|
angels (1), fantasy (1), holocaust (1), ghosts (1), childhood (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1992-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All Vows |
Esther M. Friesner |
|
|
angels (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), Judaism (1), vietnam (1), murder (1), ghosts (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1992-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Prey |
Graham Masterton |
|
|
horror (1), Cthulhu Mythos (1), witches (1), child protagonist (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1992-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Thief of Always |
Clive Barker |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), young-adult horror (1), magic (1), ensorcellment (1), time distortion (1), psychic vampire (1), contemporary (1), friendship (1), evil house (1), ofearna-2024 (1)
|
| 1992-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Welcome to Dead House |
R. L. Stine |
|
|
zombies (1), child protagonist (1), young-adult horror (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Adulthood Rites |
Octavia E. Butler |
|
|
human-alien hybrids (2), science fiction (2), nonbinary gender (1), enhanced senses (1), mother and son (1), mother and child (1), resistance (1), human rebellion (1), kidnapping (1), kidnapped (1), alien-human symbiosis (1), aliens on Earth (1), trade with aliens (1), human-alien cooperation (1), human-alien relations (1), post apocalypse (1), after apocalypse (1), Preteen protagonist (1), child protagonist (1), boy protagonist (1), Hybrid (1), human-alien hybrid (1), baby (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mother's Boys |
Bernard Taylor |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cheapskate |
Gary L. Raisor |
|
|
blackmail (1), babysitter (1), revenge (1), road rage (1), paternal infidelity (1), roller skates (1), camera (1), child protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1987-07-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
My Name Is Dolly |
William F. Nolan |
|
|
female main character (1), child protagonist (1), witches (1), magic (1), murder (1), revenge (1), horror (1)
|
| 1986-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Amy Girl |
Bari Wood |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lost |
Gary Devon |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Black Hat |
Gary L. Raisor |
|
|
Folk Tale (1), Frosty the snowman (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1), funeral (1), child protagonist (1), brother and sister (1), reanimation (1)
|
| 1985-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
space opera (3), science fiction (3), military sf (2), child protagonist (2), into-movie (2), first contact (1), from-short (1), 3-award-winner (1), aliens (1), asteroids (1), antigravity (1), genocide (1), ansible (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), games (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
L'enfant de l'espace |
Christopher Stork |
|
|
science fiction (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1984-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Coming of Age |
Timothy Zahn |
|
|
child protagonist (1), telekinesis (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1984-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Party Time |
Mort Castle |
|
|
child protagonist (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), imprisonment (1)
|
| 1984-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wasp Factory |
Iain M. Banks |
|
|
Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), child protagonist (1), wasp (1), horror (1), weird (1), madness (1), sex (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1983-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Black Air |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), christianity (1), Spanish Armada (1), child protagonist (1), sea warfare (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1983-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Disciple |
Laird Koenig |
|
|
horror (1), religion (1), faith (1), preacher (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
My Sweet Audrina |
V. C. Andrews |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1981-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Giveaway |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
|
|
contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), children's taunts (1), family relationships (1)
|
| 1981-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Under My Bed |
Al Sarrantonio |
|
|
contemporary (1), child protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), abusive father (1), fantastic protector (1)
|
| 1980-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Secrets of the Heart |
Charles L. Grant |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), psychic powers (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1978-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mister Magister |
Thomas F. Monteleone |
|
|
child protagonist (1), contemporary (1), moral lesson (1), killing (1), alien (1), carnival game (1), aliens among us (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1977-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rem the Rememberer |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
ecology (1), near future (1), dreams (1), child protagonist (1), only humans (1), New York (1)
|
| 1976-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Omen |
David Seltzer |
|
|
horror (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boy, the Dog and the Spaceship |
Nicholas Fisk |
|
|
alien point of view (1), contemporary (1), alien invasion of earth (1), spaceship crash (1), schoolboy (1), dog (1), mind control (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1970-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Crate |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), trek (1), spaceship crash (1), probation officer (1)
|
| 1968-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Chocky |
John Wyndham |
|
|
into-tv (2), science fiction (1), child protagonist (1), young-adult sf (1), aliens (1), into-radio (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1968-03-20 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Silver Crown |
Robert C. O'Brien |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), brainwashing (1), mind control (1)
|
| 1965-00-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
Le fluide magique |
Marc Agapit |
|
|
magic (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), child protagonist (1), mad scientist (1)
|
| 1964-05-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
Romanian |
Broasca |
Vladimir Colin |
|
|
frog (1), first contact (1), child protagonist (1), thinking trees (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Grimbold's Other World |
Nicholas Stuart Gray |
|
|
humour (1), magic poetry (1), night world (1), fairytale style (1), farmhand (1), child protagonist (1), goats (1), dwarves (1), cats (1), mistaken identity (1), storytelling (1), dragons (1), magic (1), orphan (1), parallel world (1), fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1)
|
| 1962-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fortune-telling Gypsy witch (1), horror (1), American Midwest (1), tempted to the dark side (1), dark character vs light character (1), aging in reverse (1), rapid aging (1), library (1), contemporary (1), midwest US (1), freak show (1), into-movie (1), childhood friends (1), fathers and sons (1), ancient evil (1), reanimation (1), carousel (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), dark carnival (1), living tattoo (1), child protagonist (1), magic (1)
|
| 1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All Summer in a Day |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
rain (1), bullying (1), into-tv (1), science fiction (1), venus (1), Poetry (1), children (1), sadness (1), loss (1), gloom (1), sun (1), female protagonist (1), child protagonist (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1951-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dress of White Silk |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), eerie (1), horror (1)
|
| 1950-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Born of Man and Woman |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
horror (1), monsters (1), cats (1), basement (1), first person point of view (1), children (1), science fiction (1), diary (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1943-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mimsy Were the Borogoves |
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore |
|
|
child protagonist (1), other dimensions (1), science fiction (1), time scoop (1), into-movie (1), education (1), enhanced intelligence (1), toys (1), time machine (1), into-tv (1), children (1), time travel (1), far future (1)
|
| 1928-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pirates |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1), Cornwall (1), nostalgia (1)
|
| 1927-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Playmates |
A. M. Burrage |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1), england (1), first person point of view (1), haunted building (1), imaginary playmates (1), contemporary (1), loneliness (1)
|
| 1926-00-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
Sous le soleil de Satan |
Georges Bernanos |
|
|
religion (1), devil (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1922-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Little Ghost |
Hugh Walpole |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1912-04-20 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Attic |
Algernon Blackwood |
|
|
child protagonist (1), ghosts (1), fantasy (1), cats (1)
|
| 1911-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Intercessor |
May Sinclair |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1911-01-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rocker |
Oliver Onions |
|
|
Librivox (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1903-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lost Ghost |
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1898-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Child of the Rain |
Elia W. Peattie |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1889-01-20 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Chickamauga |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
|
child protagonist (1), war (1), horror (1), Librivox (1)
|
| 1882-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Open Door |
Margaret Oliphant |
|
|
ghosts (2), child protagonist (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1868-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kentucky's Ghost |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1867-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Golden Key |
George MacDonald |
|
|
christian fantasy (1), child protagonist (1)
|