Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Hughart, Barry (1934– ) Fantasy with an Oriental setting first became pop- ular in the West with The Arabian Nightsbut has enjoy ...

most interesting of his recent novels, the story of a writer who discovers that his current project is being written even withou ...

The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury(1951) Throughout his writing career Ray BRADBURY mixed fantasy, horror, and science fiction alm ...

dead. The work begins by describing his early life in ancient Greece, before he set out to find the City of the Immortals. Inspi ...

survive a side trip into the Xanadu of Samuel Tay- lor Coleridge, and return after some complicated adventures. The final book i ...

cludes that he has somehow become invisible. His bewilderment increases when he stumbles upon his own gravestone, leading to the ...

of bullies and then again to drive Pennywise back into his periodic torpor. When the only one of their number who remained in th ...

left to them are rotated from family to family, and they gather reluctantly to watch nonexistent televi- sion programs because t ...

Jackson, Shirley(1919–1965) Although Shirley Jackson is considered a main- stream rather than genre writer, many of her nov- els ...

ated books, includes more than 20 volumes so far, and while there is some tendency to repetition, most of the titles are surpris ...

AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY(1964), but this clever and unusual novel runs a close second. James is a young boy condemned to what m ...

He is immediately proven right. The men who formerly scorned his company now show up at his house regularly, falling into a nigh ...

awkwardness in her writing, and The Ogre Down- stairs(1974) was bright, clever, and very funny. She could write serious fantasy ...

Conan novels by 1984 plus the novelization of the second motion picture, Conan the Destroyer (1984). His contributions to that s ...

Dark Sister (1992), a tale of contemporary witchcraft that rivals the classic Conjure Wife (1952) by Fritz LEIBER. An abused wom ...

TOM RICKSHAW” (1888), and children’s fantasies such as Puck of Pook’s Hill(1906). Some of his books are collections of individua ...

Kay, Guy Gavriel (1954– ) Although the Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay had previously worked with Christopher Tolkien to produce ...

shelter. They eventually come to the home of Goody Boyle, a woman of questionable reputation, although neither traveler is much ...

seeking their new incarnations. His quest contin- ues in Darkspell(1987), complicated by further in- terference from the gods. T ...

has also written some science fiction novels, but they have all been media tie-ins. King, Stephen (1947– ) The dominant position ...