Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

“Croatoan”Harlan Ellison(1975) Although Harlan Ellison is generally considered a science fiction writer, much of his fiction is ...

only to discover in the closing lines that he, too, has contracted the mental disease. Wells had grown bitter by the 1930s, and ...

that powers unknown to the rest of us, and origi- nating perhaps in a version of Egypt that is at vari- ance with the one we kno ...

75 D “Dagon”H. P. Lovecraft(1919) In the early part of the 20th century, there was no clearly defined horror field, and most of ...

“Edward the Conqueror,” and a child’s horrible imagination manifests itself physically in “The Wish” (1953). The protagonist of ...

Japanese ghost story, and “The Chrysanthemum Robe” (1995) are noteworthy. “The Damned Thing”Ambrose Bierce (1891) One of the sho ...

also the author of Living in Fear: A History of Hor- ror in the Mass Media(1975) and several book- length stories of the history ...

bulk of the book, however, is a flashback to Roland’s youth and his encounter with a vampire witch and participation in a major ...

“The Dead Boy at Your Window” Bruce Holland Rogers(1998) Many early fairy tales were designed as parables rather than as straigh ...

1940s, the borders between fantasy and science fiction were much less distinct than they are today. He would eventually write at ...

with King Jorian set to defeat marauding pirates, rescue a fair maiden, and repair a set of magical clocks. He eventually succee ...

is the best of Dee’s novels, featuring Scarlett Shade, who writes vampire stories with an air of expertise, not surprising since ...

was firmly established as a significant fantasy writer. Several of his stories were linked and followed the career of Cerin Song ...

instead they cluster in the cities, hidden to all ex- cept a few who have the vision to recognize them for what they are. Althou ...

to enlist his aid in one plot or another. Since they recognize him as being satanic, he clearly is a be- liever and hence cannot ...

and Other Odd Persons(1964), and Colonel Marke- san and Less Pleasant Persons(1966, with Mark Schorer). Derleth also published s ...

some elaborate logical or legal argument or a trick ending, whereby the unhappy soul is saved. The farmer in this case is Jabez ...

Dickinson, Peter (1927– ) Throughout his writing career Peter Dickinson has largely ignored genre classifications. His mystery n ...

Three of the best Discworld novels involve Death personified. Mort(1987), the most consis- tently clever of the early titles, in ...

during the late 1960s, it wakened a sudden widespread interest in fantasy fiction that germi- nated over the next few years and ...