22 must-read fantasy books like City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat by Usman T. Malik

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City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

By: Usman T. Malik

3.84

Format: 50 pages, ebook

In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a…

If you liked the fantasy plot in City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat by Usman T. Malik , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.18

Format: 211 pages, ebook

Magic in the blood. Danger in the streets. Lord Crane has never had a lover quite as elusive as … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2) book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • fantasy
"I like to make you know your master,"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly. "That comes later."

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for it. What is so particularly exciting about desks?"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Charm's a very dangerous thing. Lucien, tell me," Stephen said thoughtfully. "This respect for shamans, this inviolability..." "Mmm?" "Well, I don't know if you remember, but some three weeks ago, yo…"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

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2. Academic Exercises

By: K.J. Parker

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Academic Exercisesis the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J. Parker, and it is… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Academic Exercises book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. Hearts in the Hard Ground

By: G.V. Anderson

3.54

Format: 44 pages, ebook

Following the death of her mother, Fiona buys a new house in order to start a new chapter of her li… read more

Similar categories in G.V. Anderson's Hearts in the Hard Ground book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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6. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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8. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

By: Grace Ellis

4.12

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing … read more

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10. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

By: Tina Connolly

4.23

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more

Similar categories in Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Exile's End

By: Carolyn Ives Gilman

4.03

Format: 48 pages, ebook

Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Ives Gilman's Exile's End book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fiction
"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

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12. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. The Touches

By: Brenda Peynado

3.51

Format: 27 pages, ebook

Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Sa… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Peynado's The Touches book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy

By: J.Y. Yang

3.73

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child … read more

Similar categories in J.Y. Yang's Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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15. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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16. Wait for Night

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.90

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones is horror story about a day laborer hired to help clean up a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Wait for Night book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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17. The Heart of Owl Abbas

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.27

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A composer in an unstable city-state accidentally discovers the perfect singer for his work—a clock… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's The Heart of Owl Abbas book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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18. The Dominion of Leviathan

By: Manish Melwani

3.84

Format: 48 pages, ebook

A thrilling space opera short story from Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, "The Dominion of Leviat… read more

Similar categories in Manish Melwani's The Dominion of Leviathan book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
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19. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reporter

By: Daniela Tomova

3.40

Format: 46 pages, ebook

A reporter travels to the Norwegian Arctic to cover an unusual sled race with the undead leading th… read more

Similar categories in Daniela Tomova's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reporter book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

By: Usman T. Malik

3.84

Format: 50 pages, ebook

In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a… read more

Similar categories in Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • pakistan
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • international
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21. Anything Resembling Love

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.84

Format: 23 pages, ebook

All her life Sylvia has made sure to never let anyone see the centipedes that emerge from her body.… read more

Similar categories in S. Qiouyi Lu's Anything Resembling Love book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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22. The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.76

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew. At th… read more

Similar categories in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. The Guile

By: Ian McDonald

3.58

Format: 28 pages, ebook

When an AI that monitors casino gambling in Reno taunts a magician by revealing all his tricks, the… read more

Similar categories in Ian McDonald's The Guile book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. The Nearest

By: Greg Egan

3.63

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

When a detective, a new mother, is assigned to the case of a horrific triple murder, it appears to … read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's The Nearest book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

By: Mimi Mondal

3.56

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Mondal's His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I'll be honest - I had never heard anything like that. Not that I ever understood the elaborate social intricacies of the upper classes, but I always knew that I did not trust them, and her story jus…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

"Priests were born into the Brahmin caste, and I had met enough Brahmins in my life to know that not all of them were priests, or even had a shred of spirituality in them. Usually they were arrogant a…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

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26. The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

By: Jeremy Packert Burke

3.05

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers is a Tor.com original science fiction story from Jeremy … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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27. The Perfection of Theresa Watkins

By: Justin C. Key

3.66

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

Justin C. Key's "The Perfection of Theresa Watkins" is a skillful speculative exploration of the in… read more

Similar categories in Justin C. Key's The Perfection of Theresa Watkins book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Zeitgeber

By: Greg Egan

3.58

Format: 39 pages, ebook

For millions of years, life on Earth has taken its cues from the rising and setting of the sun, and… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Zeitgeber book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Water: A History

By: K.J. Kabza

3.71

Format: 18 pages, ebook

The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Kabza's Water: A History book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Beyond the El

By: John Chu

3.34

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Connor is a food crafter just getting back into the business after his mother’s death. To cope with… read more

Similar categories in John Chu's Beyond the El book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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31. The Word of Flesh and Soul

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.95

Format: 35 pages, ebook

The language of the originators defines reality, every word warping the world to fit its meaning. I… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's The Word of Flesh and Soul book and Usman T. Malik's City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

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K.J. Parker

4.20

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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Michelle Paver

3.87

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John Wiswell

4.07

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Theodora Goss

3.54

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Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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Lavie Tidhar

3.89

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C.L. Polk

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