Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Series Fritz Leiber(1939–1990) Although Robert E. HOWARDwas certainly the single most influential ...

mediate family. The narrator is a visitor to the Ushers who is immediately impressed with the sense of gloom and decay that adhe ...

may live on even after his body has failed. The illu- sions are, in effect, a family blessing, not a curse. Shortly after the st ...

to escape. Physically and by nature, they are a cross between a vampire and an angel, seductive, powerful, and mercilessly cruel ...

States. His only nonseries novel, Faerie Tale(1988), is also his only novel set in our world, a mix of fan- tasy and horror trop ...

Tolkien’s saga is fleshed out with songs, histor- ical records, and a very large cast of characters. The plot is largely episodi ...

pass him and join Carraden in another room, at which point the archaeologist throws himself from the window, even though they ar ...

concentrated on events within a group of interre- lated kingdoms varied enough to allow virtually any form of mainstream fantasy ...

compressed many events into very short sequences and featured characters who were little more than a name and a type. Lord DUNSA ...

A recent novella, Breathe(2004), considers the possibility that environmental problems within very large building complexes coul ...

materials upon which to experiment, concealing his activities from everyone. Eventually he achieves his goal, after a fashion, t ...

Eventually, Bodenland and some of his new ac- quaintances are transported back to his home era, where the final conflicts are re ...

historical fantasy set in an alternate Victorian England. Queen Victoria asks an old friend for help following the theft of a bo ...

wise. They were published in a combined edition as Crimson Spear(1988). Frost next wrote a very fine science fiction novel, The ...

Gabaldon, Diana(1952– ) Time travel stories are one of the most common forms of the modern romance novel, and there have been li ...

cidedly more oriented toward prose in recent years. One of his Sandman entries won the World Fantasy Award as best short story i ...

of ancient man as a warrior who thought along nar- rowly focused lines has proliferated through sword and sorcery, and his gift ...

ening within the children. Once again, they save the day, assisted by a helpful wizard but largely on their own. Elidor(1965) tr ...

the gaps between major novels and the fact that many of his titles are available only from small press imprints. Gemmell, David ...

need to cooperate in order to survive. He has a reputation for reliable storytelling and intelligent plotting as well as a very ...