Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

a standard gateway into a magic land that initially seems a pleasant place but whose underlying cor- ruption becomes increasingl ...

actually a prequel, Mina (1994) by Elaine BERGSTROMwriting as Mira Kiraly, an account of Mina Harker’s subsequent slide toward v ...

short stories only, although in a wide variety of forms including military science fiction, sword and sorcery, and horror. His e ...

pass it on. With each transfer the dream grows more powerful, and ultimately it will be fatal to the party for whom it is intend ...

Readers interested in a retelling of the story from a different viewpoint should try Mary Reilly (1991) by Valerie Martin, in wh ...

briefly transformed into the shape of whales in Deep Wizardry(1985) and save another child from the dangers of excessive imagina ...

refuse to be bonded to the present king, which makes them outlaws. A young woman becomes the uneasy heir to the throne in Sky of ...

ing this, one of his most famous, humans cooper- ate to some extent in that effort. The story opens slowly but effectively, desc ...

short fiction has been occasional and follows no es- tablished pattern. “Fool’s Gold” (1997) is so far her best at that length. ...

sexual gratification, but rather by the thirst for re- venge. Although he had not recognized it at the time, Merrick is gay and ...

Eager, Edward(1911–1964) Edward Eager was an American dramatist who began writing children’s fantasies with Half Magic (1954), i ...

our contemporary dating ritual, eventually leaving together to go to her room. Traditional sex is, of course, impossible for the ...

awkward, but Eddison never reverts to it once the real story is underway. Eddison’s other major fantasy work is the Zimiamvia tr ...

come an increasingly prolific short story writer since 1997, many of whose fantasies can be found in Paying the Piper at the Gat ...

noticeably as the series has progressed. Although the author has confined her efforts to this one set- ting and story line almos ...

Emerson’s next series is called Night Threads. In The Calling of the Three(1990), three young people from our reality are brough ...

In horror fiction, however, it is entirely possible that the voices be real. Seth, the narrator of “Enoch,” is a mentally ill ma ...

but they were almost always ambiguous—illusions, psychological disorders, or simply odd events left unexplained, suspended somew ...

mysterious figure who preys on children. In Califor- nia Gothic(1995) a successful man and his family find themselves in danger ...

Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971) repeated the phe- nomenon, convincing the publishing and film in- dustries that the American public ...