Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Although the form is that of a traditional ghost story, Kipling tweaked the plot with consid- erable originality for his time. T ...

lected mostly in Fancy Free(1901) and Transit of the Red Dragon(1903), and his later ones in Pea - cock House and Other Mystery ...

should be visited upon his portrait rather than himself, and through some means never really ex- plained, that is exactly what h ...

around them and who find fulfillment through their own accomplishments rather than from the acts of others. Her stories are quit ...

story of the mystery of life after death. Pike wrote several straightforward suspense thrillers, including The Chain Letter(1986 ...

Poe’s first published story was “Metzengerstein” (1832), the story of a family rivalry that reaches a critical point of violence ...

in the mail, always addressed to her husband, writ- ten in the same handwriting, and never bearing a postal stamp. On each occas ...

The Drawing of the Dark(1979), and most of his subsequent fiction has fallen into that category. The protagonist of his first fa ...

Pratchett also wrote a short series about tiny people known as Nomes. They are introduced in Truckers(1990), where we discover t ...

fetish with a warrior’s spirit trapped inside. Caught in an emotional struggle between her boyfriend and her mother, Amelia trie ...

The basis of the story is a love affair. The hero is Westley, a poor boy who falls in love with a beau- tiful girl and she, Butt ...

283 Q Quinn, Seabury (1889–1969) Seabury Quinn was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s, prod ...

Radford, Irene (1944– ) Irene Radford is the pseudonym of Phyllis Ann Karr, who wrote fantasy under that name from 1974 to 1986 ...

more conventional than her earlier efforts, they are more technically polished, and the Merlin’s De- scendants series in particu ...

group of witches have used magic to rewrite his- tory and that many of the adventures we read about in fiction actually happened ...

Mageborn Traitor(1997), in which war threatens to erupt again along the lines of two very different schools of magic. The third ...

castle dominates the scene, and every effort that Gerard makes to escape leads him inevitably back toward it. When he finally en ...

conventions even though the tone of the novels is relentlessly serious. Farren’s most recent novel, Kindling(2004), is an altern ...

centuries. Although all these titles sold quite well, Rice was so firmly associated with vampires that it was inevitable that sh ...

often misidentified as a tale of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian ANDERSEN, but it is, in fact, a short story by Washington ...