Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

that needs to be removed from a shaft, Kelley sees a shaft that needs to be freed from a wheel. This odd viewpoint becomes criti ...

by various parties to seize control of the gateways among the realities in their efforts to rule them all. Next came another tri ...

Wander” (1962). These early short episodes were collected as Who Fears the Devil?(1963). Later in his career Wellman began writi ...

an evil sorcerer adding to the mix. We see the ac- tion through the eyes of a captain of the guard who joins forces with the kin ...

“The Werewolf”Captain Frederick Marryatt (1839) Although most of the traditional monsters of hor- ror fiction have appeared in a ...

his bed for later consumption. There is also a price- less scene in which a family kills and eats the family dog and then opines ...

The twosome endeavor to understand the nature of their prisoner, who demonstrates no ability to talk. It is shaped like a human, ...

African magic. His only collection is Gunmen, Gal- lants, and Ghosts(1943), which contains only a handful of horror stories. Som ...

was murdered after a prolonged struggle in a public place, her cries for help ignored by dozens of wit- nesses who could not be ...

Williams, Tad(1957– ) The success of WATERSHIP DOWN (1972), by Richard Adams, demonstrated that it was entirely possible to writ ...

the divine intervention is direct and unmistakable, although it takes a rather unexpected form. Dreamthorp(1989) is not as impre ...

same area after each defeat. The stories are other- wise brisk and convincing, and Williamson’s evil protagonist is his single m ...

him to withdraw from school. The narrator spends the next few years in various parts of Europe living a dissolute lifestyle of d ...

wards that imprison an evil entity. The incidents that follow suggest that the creature is a vampire, but it is actually a very ...

Grahame wrote only a few other pieces of fic- tion, some of which is fantasy. The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days(1898) are col ...

Norton began falling into a formula from this point forward, rewarding her fans with more of the same but rarely providing anyth ...

travel and self-redemption, but as is the case with al- most everything Wolfe writes, the treatment is unique, the prose distinc ...

“The Woman Who Loved the Moon” Elizabeth A. Lynn(1981) Although ElizabethLYNNis not one of the most pro- lific fantasy writers, ...

the family and disguises the fatal wound, but the innkeeper suspects something of the truth and asks him to leave. The story is ...

superior. When the witches attempt to subjugate the demons, the dispute is decided by a physical contest in which the king of th ...