The Castle (novel) Puns

This novel is the first book in a series, but all I remember of the next book is that involves a southern empire of some sort and giant-sized magical wall. I remember the first book better.

I read this novel sometime after 2010, at my local california library. It was an adult fiction novel in english. Probably a hardback. The book included a map of the setting. The story was set in an old castle in the north. In this castle lived a lord, his retainers, and a child. I belive that these people were part of some group whose ancestors had, way back in the past, locked another race, demons or something, behind a magical gateway. The castle was old and had a large section that was in disrepair. The child goes wondering around in this section when some demons manage to slip past the gate and go hunting for her. The girl finds some sort of magical fire or light in the walls of the castle, and it is this magical power that is keeping the gateway closed. The magic is sentient but old and weak. Somehow she wakes the light up again. I don't remember what else happens exactly, but the child manages to live at the end of the story, grows older in later books, and has to travel around different kingdoms and empires or something to save the world.

Well between Chapter 9 and 10 Daniel and the others met up with the Ninja again and the Parrot said he wanted to go back to the Ninja...and so the Ninja allowed... the knights also told him about how his parrot saved them from being found by the Necromancer....The ninja also asked if they could go on without his parrot and so Daniel said yes.....

The reason why i did this is because i mostly forget to add the parrot to the story due to the fact i mostly couldnt think of what to do with it. One time i also wanted to kill him off but didnt had the will to do it

It wasnt made to be a fan fic but technically it is. Although it doesnt contain those fan service stuff or some random weird stuff i see in other fan fics

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I think I remember this right. I read it in 5th grade maybe so 25 years ago lol.

A young teen home alone gets shrunk somehow or something; he learns that the knights in the attic are alive and he helps them defend the toy castle from a horde of rats ...???

Well at that point i never really got the game until days later so i guessed the ending...

In the game's ending the wizard falls and the knights rescue the orange princess...

In the reboot series's intro Red stabs the wizard in the head instead of the wizard falling to his death. The orange princess is never seen also being saved but i confirm that the orange princess was saved before the final battle where she gets put inside a bubble and is flown out of the forest

Trying to remember a YA fantasy novel I read sometime in the mid to late 2000s or potentially the early 2010s. Unfortunately, I can only remember the finale of the novel...

Based on memory, the female protagonist is being kept hidden or locked away in a castle, I think for her own protection. She is seeing visions or is being visited by a witch or spirit of some kind, due to her magical abilities (I believe fire related). The specific scene I remember is her sneaking out of the castle and walking out onto a battlefield at dawn, stripping naked (I don't 100% remember why), and somehow using her powers or giving herself up as bait to the antagonist, who is leading the attacking army. This is key to her defeating him.

Any ideas? I've been wracking my brain, but haven't found much. If it helps at all, I was very into Shannon Hale, Jessica Day George, and Gail Carson Levine at the time.

Hi everyone! I've always wanted to write a book in the spirit of Diana Wynne Jone's works, to keep something of the feeling I had as a kid reading her stuff alive. This novel, Phinny Pet-Sits the Apple Wizard, is kind of the first stab I'm having at doing so, but it's very difficult to capture that slow, winding fantasy feeling without being boring or confusing. I'd love some feedback on the prologue, especially from anyone who loves soft fantasy or DWJ's writing or especially Howl's Moving Castle, which is my favourite of her books and the one that's inspired me for a good two decades now.

I'm really looking to know:

• if you'd keep reading beyond this prologue

• if it's fun to read - this is my biggest worry

• any questions that would spring to your mind as a reader while reading it

• if it has the atmosphere I'm aiming for, which is a kind of cozy, low-stakes fantasy where the characters and how they interact is the core of the story, and the magic is a reflection of them and their interactions

And of course, anything else except grammar, spelling, etc. really, since this is a first draft and it will be tossed about pretty wildly moving forward.

A short and deeply flawed blurb:

> Phinny Fernsby is unfortunate enough to have been born the magicless daughter of the Great Wizard Erasmus, although whether she was born or conjured by some outrageous magic of her father’s is certainly up for discussion.

> When she’s unknowingly caught in a plot to unbalance the magic of her land, Phinny is drawn from the safety of her father’s half-castle and taken to the feral northern reaches of Ivengenny, where the animals dream their own realities and magic - along with everything else - has teeth. Making the best of adventurous things has always been Phinny’s way, but as she tangles with Ivengenny’s unbalanced magic and the deadly curse laced into the bones of her new home, Phinny realises that it’s going to take more than the best to save Ivengenny and those who belong there.

And the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1igh5S8fzZHE4enwn2NCUk1KJ6zes_YApQ_KVtpvH-aQ/edit

Previously 1 month ago when the knights fought the wizard in a final battle.....

Red and the other knights were severely injured but were close to defeating the wizard

Blue,Orange and Green were all knocked out and defeated...

Only Red remained.....

The Wizard : "You will never take this world from me!"

Red: "Oh yeah? coughs blood well come and kill me then!"

Blue,Green and Orange: "RED NO!"

The wizard then threw 4 giant crystals at Red

Red then jumped through the 4 crystals and then slash through the wizard

The wizard then bleeded and fell down.....

Red collapsed from his wounds.....

Red: "I did it.....the world is saved......"

Orange: "Now we all wait until we die here...theres no one that can save us.....

The knights then slowly close their eyes waiting for their deaths as they realize everything is slowly collapsing

When suddenly a Crystal starts floating onto them

Green: "Huh? What the?"

The crystal then floats out along with the injured knights

Red: "We're saved!"

Orange: "WOOHOO!"

Back at the town the knight's injuries were being treated inside a tent.

The four then went outside and celebrated the Wizard's defeat along with the civillians

1 month later...

The 4 knights were now known as the heroes of the town and had recovered from their injures

Lately there hasnt been a single crime going and everything has been peaceful

Red was outside looking at the ocean view still wondering if the necromancer is still out there planning something

But then he is disturbed when Green touches his Shoulder

Red: "Huh? What is it Green?"

Green: "We got a message about a new knight arriving and joining us!"

Red: "What really?"

Green: "Yeah its true lets go to the King's castle the new knight will be going there"

Red and Green then ride their horses to the King's castle and reached there in time with Blue and Orange waiting....

Blue: "Im really excited to have a new knight here "

Orange: "I bet he will be badass fighter"

They then hear a horse running

Green: "Its him!"

There appeared the gray knight riding its horse and got off

The gray knight had a gray cape too like the 4 knights who also have a Red cape for Red knight. Orange had an orange cape. Blue had a blue cape and Green had a green cape

The Gray Knight: "Well hello there im the new knight"

The gray knight then bowed his head along with Red,Blue,Orange and Green

Blue: "Its a great pleasure to meet you whats your name?"

Gray

Recently rekindled my passionate love for fantasy and am looking for more! I have also read all of Diana Wynne Jones’ novels as a kid, and Night Circus! Thank you in advance for any recommendations ❤️

I'm interested on the novels below that the MC has unique space. Can anyone suggest any that is not mentioned below.

Card Apprentice - There is a unique card where he can enter and develop his card making skills Castle of Black Iron - A space in his mind where there is a mysterious tree that bears fruits to help him in his cultivation Lord of the Mysteries - A space where he has absolute control and gathers people with different goals Museum of Deadly Beast - the same as lord of the mysteries. He has a visitation hall where people were sucked into and provide him samples of beast in exchange for information.

Honorable mentions: 48 hours a day - he has a extra 24 hours a day that he is the only one who can move Trafford trading club - has the same feel of having a unique space which people trade items

Bram Stoker did not know that a real Castle Dracula existed. But his description of the castle in the Borgo Pass is uncannily apt.

- Sir Christopher Lee, "In Search of Dracula" (1972)

https://i.ibb.co/0XMcNDq/poenarilee.png (image - poienari citadel, romania)

https://i.ibb.co/hsS6LRf/poenaridocu.png (the citadel reconstructed)

I have always been obsessed with castles, and I have always been obsessed with Count Dracula, specially Bela Lugosi's original interpretation of the vampire.

Lately, I've been looking to the sources of inspiration Bram Stoker used for the character, and also read through the possible sources for Count Dracula's infamous stronghold in Transylvania.

Here, I theorise a possible source for Stoker's castle - an existing castle that is extremely similar - nearly identical - in overall layout to this fictional Castle Dracula, and that is not the famous Bran Castle of Transylvania (often marketed as "Dracula's castle" due to its gothic and fantastical architectural reconstruction) but Vlad the Impaler's sinister fortress of Poienari, no less.

I will explain by using some descriptions in the novel and linking these to the layout of the real castle of poienari that vlad tepes built.

First off is the topographic location of Castle Dracula - high atop a rock, over 1,000 feet above mountain valleys teeming with rivers and lush forests.

>The castle was built on the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was quite impregnable...

See this image showing poienari citadel fitting these characteristics:

https://i.ibb.co/RcWRnFW/poenariprecipice2.png

Another telling similarity is the castle's height, above the ravine which it looms over.

>The castle is on the very edge of a terrific precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything!

Similarly, Poienari citadel stands on a rock over 1,000 feet above a ravine containing part of the river Arges:

>Perched on a pinnacle of rock more than 1,000 feet high, Poenari overlooks a narrow ravine cut by the River Arges... (http://www.thedevilslance.com/Poenari.php)

This is also confirmed by Christopher Lee in the documentary "The Search for Dracula" (1972):

>...the real Castle Dracula is perched on top of a rock 1,000 feet abov

My post title sounds nuts to me as I type but I'm pretty sure I remember all of that happening.

This was definitely that 70s/80s school of fantasy paperback you'd see in a used bookstore (I grabbed it off a friend who had never read it and was cleaning out their bookshelf). I don't remember the cover clearly but it had that cheesy art, I feel like it was probably depicting the main character and the horse.

The details of the plot re hazy but I think it started with the male protagonist (let's call him Steve) returning home from somewhere and meeting this horse who I think can only speak (telepathically?) to him. Steve, who is some kind of black sheep or prodigal son type, gets back to his family's castle/estate which I think may have been crumbling/deteriorating and that may have been a metaphor for how the family was falling apart? The main contents of the novel were kind of gormenghasty family intrigue stuff and the horse helps Steve, who I think was kind of emo/Hamlety about the whole thing, get through it.

The tree thing is the weirdest detail I remember that I'm almost positive is real. Some other character in the novel is preoccupied for a lot of it with some roots or growth intruding into the basement, worried that it will threaten the foundations of the house, but everyone else ignores it or is paying more attention to the family drama. At the end of the novel, there's a climactic moment where the castle is maybe going to collapse, and the horse I think tells Steve to kill him or do some other ritualistic thing that results in the the horse dying/transforming into the growth/roots, which become a tree that holds the castle up and the tree has a carved horse face that can still communicate with Steve (and I think others can hear him too now). I think it ends with Steve taking over the family ruling/business with horsetree to advise him.

It was probably 5-7 years ago that I read is but the book was way older. It was not a book I'd normally read but it must have looked interesting enough and I got sucked in by how weird it was. I only remember it now because of the horse>tree thing.

The friend who gave it to me was, like me, a big fantasy reader, but we had slightly different tastes. If it helps to know their tastes, I remember when we were kids they were huge into Mercedes Lackey who was not my cup of tea (I'm pretty positive this is not a Mercedes Lackey) but it may have been that era of fantasy. It has either faded into obscurity or my go

I believe she first leaves a trail of thread for them to find, and then they find some rings that have whatever effect people believe them to have, but for longer and longer durations with every person who tries, and they start arguing over what to do about it all.

I think I was super little when I read it, so it must have been at least 20 years ago, and it was probably published 20 years before.

Thanks all!

(Spoilers ahead!)

Howl’s Moving Castle is one of my favorite films and I’ve probably seen it about 30 times so far, so I decided to read the book to get more of the world.

It’s completely different! I’m not finished yet, (only about halfway through at the moment) but the plot line is vastly different, there’s a love triangle kinda thing going on, Michael is 15 and dating Sophie’s sister, etc.

And the weirdest part is that in the book, Howl is canonically from our universe, late 1980’s England! The black dial in the novel leads to his sister’s house, where he takes Sophie and Micheal to meet his niece and nephew, and he drives them around in a car and shows them a computer! So weird.

It’s a good novel, and really interesting to read even though it’s a children’s book, but the experience of finding out that the movie is really only super loosely based on the novel was a shock.

Just wanted to mention it somewhere because I am just so weirded out right now haha.

I read this book about a year ago, I remember most of the first part. the main character a boy who was kicked out of his house by his abusive boyfriend told to come back when he found a vampire to kill him. A vampire who a prince was feeding off a women heard crying in the distance saw a boy on a beach crying. The vampire feeling something talks to to the hearing his story. When the boy goes back to his house the next morning finds his boyfriend with someone else, who is supposedly his girlfriend and the boy just a toy to the man. The boy runs ending up at the castle with a stustaing a injury on the way. The main characters have a daddy/little boy relationship. It would be a lifesaver if this book was found. So, if anyone could help that would be great.

Dont remember the cover, pretty sure it was hardcover.

Hi! I want to make a zine for an illustration class I am in and would like to use the first paragraph to We Have Always Lived in the Castle in my work. I have done so much digging but I'm still not sure if it's in the public domain or not. I'm new to this. It was published in 1962 and Hill's other novel The Haunting of Hill House is in the public domain, so I believe this one should be too? I'm not sure. I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

I love reading.

Suggest me a book, where sentences are way too long, where some strings may not make sense at all. The environment where is meticulously described and preferably set up in snowy location and above all, must not have an ending.

I heard that the book was a british novel for kids, which makes it more interesting that Studio Ghibli chose to adapt this of all things

I'm confused on what happens after the demon castle arc with Esil.