Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

quietly but effectively demonstrates otherwise in a single sentence. “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back”Joe R. Lansdale ...

What might be an interesting philosophical discussion turns into genuine fantasy only in the final few pages. More volumes of th ...

basis for updated stories. Raven of Destiny(1984) is similarly based on the legend of an ancient Celtic warrior and explorer, an ...

they have food and water to last for weeks, the be- sieged group is thrown into a crisis when the power goes off, limiting how l ...

to exhibit uncharacteristic behavior inappropriate for their age and inconsistent with their personali- ties. The ensuing strugg ...

There is a large cast of characters whose story spreads over the course of several books, the most recent being Out of the Darkn ...

the first title introduces the characters, setting, and plot, all of which are new and presumably of interest to the reader. The ...

359 U “Ubbo-Sathla”Clark Ashton Smith(1973) Clark Ashton SMITHwas one of several writers who occasionally set their stories with ...

wrong, but he counters that Siam is real only on his sufferance and that it would vanish com- pletely if he stopped believing in ...

361 V “The Valley of the Worm”Robert E. Howard(1934) Although Robert E. HOWARDoccasionally wrote stories set within the Cthulhu ...

unsatisfactory, so he proceeds alone and on horse- back, although his mount grows increasingly ner- vous during the descent and ...

“The Vanishing American” Charles Beaumont(1955) Charles BEAUMONTwas one of the most talented short story writers in the fantasy ...

technology has been displaced by magic, in much the same fashion as in the Dying Earth series by Jack VANCE. Whereas Vance uses ...

Fisher Jr., and the 1963 Japanese horror film Attack of the Mushroom People,also released under several other names. Volsky, Pau ...

is captured by slavers on a remote island, and Caspian uses an ingenious trick to free his com- rades and reform the local gover ...

367 W Wagner, Karl Edward (1945–1994) Karl Edward Wagner began selling short stories during the early 1970s, about equally distr ...

MACHEN, and other more familiar names. His first collection, They Return at Evening, appeared in 1928, although his two best-kno ...

stories. Despite her small output, she retains her position as an important figure in contemporary fantasy primarily because of ...

with two sequels. The best of those authors who work almost exclusively within the Warhammer universe is Dan Abnett, whose Eisen ...

sword that instills its bearer with a kind of immor- tality, although the spell has several unexpected surprises and consequence ...