Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

because “sometimes they come back.” Although King never wrote a follow-up, the 1991 film version was later followed by two seque ...

that has been abstracted from the rest of the world, but the main plot dealing with the rivalry between two vampire clans does n ...

another quest, this time an effort to mend a broken musical instrument with magical powers. Two later additions were less intere ...

who has considerable difficulty fitting into our world. I Am Mordred(1998) is a rare recent excur- sion from the contemporary wo ...

some variety of angel, are wakening from an age- long sleep to interfere in human affairs during the Victorian era, and a secret ...

(1994), battling an evil sorceress, a plot repeated with only slight variations in the next, The Secular Wizard(1995). One of th ...

were only loosely interrelated, and the Goose- bumps series for younger readers had no common thread at all. Many of the Fear St ...

viding alternate versions of his history. Although Stoker began writing professionally while still young and was employed for a ...

wonder and mystery about the universe, to tell us that even in the most prosaic settings, there can be an element of magic, and ...

shorter fiction. Mrs. God(1990), a novella, is par- ticularly good. Strieber, Whitley (1945– ) Although Whitley Strieber has bec ...

sage of years. His occasional short fiction remains uncollected but includes some very fine stories such as “Properties of the B ...

suing visits, culminating with the final one, during which Nancy tells him that he lost her to Godfrey only because he refused t ...

the third adventure of Eunostos, although chrono- logically the first, set during a much happier time when his existence was not ...

345 T Tarr, Judith (1955– ) Judith Tarr began writing fantasies during the 1980s, initially in a fairly traditional format, but ...

Kingdom of the Grail(2000) is set some time after the death of Arthur and the fall of Camelot. Merlin is a prisoner until he is ...

the rules except a handful of exceptions, who exist to provide random elements. The protagonist is a shape-changer who returns i ...

Dr. James Hardcastle is resting from an illness in the countryside when he hears rumors of a leg- endary creature that lives in ...

“That Hell-Bound Train”Robert Bloch(1986) By the 1980s it seemed unlikely that anyone could find a new twist to the deal-with-th ...

after Tallant severs the thing’s head with a ma- chete, its teeth remain locked onto his hand. Even worse, the bite has a peculi ...

help save the Emerald City from being conquered by the Red Baron of Baffleburg. Thompson in- vents several new and amusing chara ...