Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

is when the grither finally arrives. The author never explains the ending in any detail, leaving it to our own imagination to sp ...

of dark humor, shown in “Mr. Dingle the Strong” (1961) and “The Rip Van Winkle Caper” (1962). He often took elements of popular ...

an Elf(1991) and Choose Your Enemies Carefully (1991), both by Robert Charrette. Some are cast in the form of tough detective st ...

(1905). When her old body died, Ayesha was rein- carnated in the body of an elderly priestess in yet another lost Asian kingdom, ...

fiction critics, the latter because the animation of Frankenstein’s monster is the result of scientific principles rather than t ...

has been writing for both markets since the late 1980s. Her very early books for children are of minimal interest, but her first ...

racial prejudice, but the plot is not consistently strong enough to hold the reader’s attention. Thor’s Hammer(2000) is for chil ...

only true fantasy, The Black Hole of Carcosa,a blend of magic and tough detective story set in the world created by J. Michael R ...

in “The Shunned House,” still a rental property on Benefit Street, although none of its recent resi- dents have ever experienced ...

of evil sorcery. The ensuing battle for control of the city takes place on many levels, some of which involve magical rivalries. ...

humans long before the events in the Ring trilogy, a desire that caused a fatal rift between their race and that of the elves. T ...

A later book, The Moon’s Fire-Eating Daughter (1991), is structured similarly, this time in the form of a journey through time a ...

His most recent book-length horror is A Winter Haunting(2002), the direct sequel to Summer of Night,whose characters Simmons had ...

The Cleanup(1987) starts as a wish-fulfill- ment fantasy. A young man who feels as though he has been victimized by everyone he ...

intention of actually possessing it. Convinced, Maitland goes to Marco’s home but finds the man murdered, his throat torn out ap ...

light and so only hunts during the hours of dark- ness, emerging from a swamp to kill cattle, wildlife, and eventually people. P ...

Averoigne, and others. His fiction is highly de- scriptive and prose conscious, and many of his sto- ries are little more than t ...

tells horrible events whenever it tolls. A sequel, Demons(1987), is less interesting. The ghosts of victims of Nazi atrocities e ...

they are quite tame by contemporary standards. Topper is an older man who finds his life compli- cated by the presence of the gh ...

the traditional devices of horror fiction, usually with far less success. Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury(1962) Alt ...