Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Chapman, Vera(1898–1986) Vera Chapman was a longtime fan of fantasy fic- tion and founded the British Tolkien Society, but she w ...

fantasy. This Bram Stoker Award–winning short story is one of the best of his more recent fantasy tales, the story of a marvelou ...

Cherryh, C. J. (1942– ) Although some of C. J. Cherryh’s early novels con- tained many elements of fantasy, she established her ...

Claire, which were collected as The Psychic Detec- tivein 1993. Chetwynd-Hayes produced more than two dozen collections of short ...

The main character in this story is a young boy whose personality has been shaped by an overly protective mother and a father wh ...

story. Although there is genuine magic in it, the im- pact comes from MacLeod’s skill in creating believ- able people reacting p ...

but his articulate English disappears whenever he is posed a question he does not wish to answer. The visitors are surprised, so ...

completely disappear. A demonic force abides there, and shortly after the protagonists arrive it manifests itself through the cr ...

sequence is considerably more inventive and inter- esting than those set in the Dancer universe. Clayton had begun a new fantasy ...

modified to be a prep school. A new arrival is forcibly initiated into a secret society that looks suspiciously like a coven. St ...

Collins also has written a considerable body of short fiction, the best of which is contained in Nameless Sins(1994), Knuckles a ...

ing “The People of the Black Coast” and “The Tower of the Elephant,” are undeniable classics of fantasy. His world was a violent ...

has not aged well, but the basic satire of the story remains valid. There have been several film versions ranging from serious t ...

was mixing it with fantasy. By the middle of the 1980s he was writing fantasy almost exclusively. His first sequence was inevita ...

The series started with The Wizards and the War- riors(1986, also published as Wizard War), which opens in a typical fantasy wor ...

Cooper, Louise (1952– ) Louise Cooper’s first fantasy novel, The Book of Paradox(1973), is set in a world based on the Tarot and ...

forced to relocate to America, where he attracts attention by playing endless practical jokes on his host family. Green Boy(2002 ...

manifestation of his past sins—specifically a never clearly described incident involving an experience with black magic and sugg ...

Grey(1988) and The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (1991), in which the restless spirits are more likely to be victims in need of hel ...

“The Crate” Stephen King(1979) If a story requires the protagonist to perform a de- spicable act such as murder, but the author ...