Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wings of Meister Wilhelm | 2004 | Theodora Goss | Buy |
| 2 | Singing of Mount Abora | 2007 | Theodora Goss | N/A |
| 3 | The Rose in Twelve Petals | 2010 | Theodora Goss | N/A |
| 4 | Christopher Raven | 2011 | Theodora Goss | N/A |
| 5 | The Thorn and the Blossom | 2012 | Theodora Goss | Buy |
| 6 | Beautiful Boys | 2012 | Theodora Goss | N/A |
| 7 | Red as Blood and White as Bone | 2016 | Theodora Goss | Buy |
| 8 | Come See the Living Dryad | 2017 | Theodora Goss | Buy |
Goss has been publishing short fiction since the early 2000s, and these pieces show a writer working out many of the ideas that would later appear in her longer work. The fairy tale influence is strong throughout, but so is a literary sensibility that keeps the stories from feeling like simple retellings.
The novellas tend to give more space to the Gothic and Victorian elements she returned to in the Athena Club books, while the shorter pieces are often closer to prose poetry in their construction. Both are worth reading for anyone who wants a fuller picture of what she does as a writer.