Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

appeared as a series of chapbooks, starting with Cat Wings (1988) and ending with Wonderful Alexander and the Cat Wings(1994). T ...

return from the dead, with the usual unfortunate consequences. It is one of the few inconsequential stories among the very large ...

rarely as effectively and efficiently as Poe did more than a century ago. Ligotti, Thomas(1953– ) Because there are so few marke ...

wolves, who are intelligent and who in some cases raise human children as their own. Wolf Capturedis particularly well told. The ...

She also wrote several novels on her own, including the unlikely but amusing adventure Minerva Wakes (1994), which sprawls acros ...

the Bram Stoker Award as best first novel and was one of his few conventional stories, in this case the travails of a town menac ...

taps into that vein of terror in this story from early in his career, which was later filmed as an episode of The Twilight Zonea ...

peared in 1920 as The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life and Astonishing Ad- ventures in Foreign P ...

the Hills(1963), and The Dark Beasts(1964) are al- most exclusively supernatural or occult. “Second Night Out” (1933) is one of ...

more than a dozen novels, of which this is one of the most famous. Lost Horizonis a lost race novel, although in this case the a ...

the 1920s he became a regular contributor to oc- cult fiction magazines such as Weird Talesand an occasional contributor to scie ...

the night using two voices and refuses to allow anyone to help him deal with the malignant growths. The newcomers are reluctant ...

himself caught up in the vampire world and later opposed to his sibling, who has allied himself with the enemies of humanity. Th ...

The setting in the opening volume is superfi- cially familiar. A medieval style kingdom is threat- ened by external forces, requ ...

MacAvoy, R. A. (1949– ) Roberta Ann MacAvoy made her debut with the contemporary fantasy Tea with the Black Dragon (1983) and th ...

about the nature of good and evil and the effects of temptation. His second adult fantasy novel, Lilith(1895), follows the adven ...

to create that magical realm of talking animals. Digory is a young boy temporarily living with his aunt and uncle, the Ketterley ...

as a matter of course. Such is the case in this very short but memorable story about an ambitious salesman who decides to impres ...

who would normally have reacted violently to such an affront, and the leper’s actions seem innocuous if rather strange. The foll ...

of a less skillful writer. The fourth volume has not yet appeared as of this writing, but the series is al- ready considered Mar ...