Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

marriage she wishes to avoid. Flight of the Raven (1990) and A Tapestry of Lions(1992) are enter- taining but unexceptional potb ...

mostly pretense, as she is preoccupied with what she sees as the tragedy of her intellectually and so- cially impoverished perso ...

early 1990s, his recent work has appeared only at increasing intervals. Rohmer, Sax(Arthur Sarsfield Ward) (1883–1959) Sax Rohme ...

and the original, now pale and exuding the stench of death, poised over his bed. He escapes, of course, and lives to tell the st ...

loose, good-humored trilogy consisting of Not Ex- actly the Three Musketeers (1999), Not Quite Scaramouche(2001), and Not Really ...

Rowling introduced her major characters and the ongoing plot in the opening volume and devel- oped both in HARRY POTTER AND THE ...

world in Simply Irresistible(2002) and again in Abso- lutely Captivated(2004). Her romances are reminis- cent at times of Robert ...

work of science fiction, although it strongly re- sembles a fantasy. In the aftermath of a devastat- ing war, a young girl trave ...

Saberhagen, Fred (1930– ) Although many writers have written across a broad spectrum of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, mo ...

story from the monster’s point of view. Saberha- gen’s supernatural fiction is more properly occult adventure than horror, and h ...

later we learn that the prevailing opinion is that the Earth is shaped like a ball and that only a small minority believe that i ...

(2001), one of the few that revisits a culture. Night Blooming(2002) takes place in Europe just before Saint Germain manages to ...

were less competent than their peers in the main- stream, and probably equally true that the compe- tent ones had few opportunit ...

above their limited subject matter. The best of his recent work is the atypical The Highwayman (2004), a much more restrained ad ...

to the vampire’s castle in DRACULA (1897) by Bram STOKER, almost certainly a conscious effort on the author’s part. The story it ...

(1983), “The Dancing Foot” (1986), and “The Trail of the Chromium Bandits” (1989). He has also edited two major anthologies: 999 ...

drifted toward a medical thriller. A woman discov- ers that her child is the subject of an unauthorized and terrifying experimen ...

is threatened when one man plots to sacrifice his brother in order to acquire enhanced powers. Dark Ways to Death(1968) is a sur ...

contemporary America. The Lady in the Loch (1998) is more serious, a blend of historical novel and alternate world fantasy in wh ...

Makes a Swirly” (1994) takes the reader on a tour of a bizarre underground world and the society an outsider finds there. The pr ...