Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

and Dreamscapes(1993) collected most of his short fiction from this period. In 1996 King engaged in an interesting experi- ment, ...

between a traveler and a mysterious and beautiful young woman. After a brief but blissful time to- gether, the traveler must lea ...

story that evoked much of the spirit of H. P. LOVE- CRAFTin its depiction of a decaying, cursed place destined to serve as a piv ...

characters obsessed by some object or activity, usu- ally with unpleasant consequences. This character trait carried over into h ...

the other a malformed but powerful humanoid creature who pursues the dog and his protectors. Although there are hints of the sup ...

chilling prophecy about five critical points in a young man’s life. Many of Koontz’s themes and plots are familiar ones, but he ...

vampire who draws his sustenance from the dreams of women, giving them an ecstatic experi- ence in exchange and not hurting them ...

Javan’s Year (1992) and The Bastard Prince (1994). Despite efforts at reconciliation, the ten- sion between humans and Deryni wo ...

short stories, including “Playing with Fire” (1993), “Death of a Raven” (1997), and “The House of Nine Doors” (1998). Kuttner, H ...

Lackey, Mercedes(1950– ) Mercedes Lackey started writing short stories in the middle of the 1980s and very quickly became one of ...

individually. With her husband, the artist Larry Dixon, Lackey continued to expand the history of Valdemar with The Black Grypho ...

tional fairy tales, each title of which involved a color, hence The Blue Fairy Book (1889) with eleven sequels, the last being T ...

Lansdale’s short fiction has been collected and recollected several times. The best of them are By Bizarre Hands (1991), Bestsel ...

Doctor Orient’s decision not to use his psychic abilities for material gain is put to the test. Nonoc- cult powers are after him ...

railroad yards in search of victims. It was a surpris- ingly impressive debut and popular enough that the publisher placed adver ...

ries of unlikely accidents begins to claim them one by one until the survivors realize they will have to kill the witch if they ...

related but not quite as tightly written. Another cult provides the conflict this time as they use a re- tarded man as a lure to ...

the thoughtless gods to escape his own otherwise boring existence. The Flat Earth sequence consists of interlaced stories and no ...

Ironically, Lee became increasingly active as a horror writer after that genre had begun its recent decline, and only about half ...

Sleepy Hollow, an area near Tarrytown, New York, as Irving describes it, is particularly subject to legends, superstitions, and ...