Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

leaving the ghostly young women heartbroken, and ever after that the turnips grown in that field have a distinct flavor of rum. ...

he was mildly disturbed even the first time he met her, feeling as though something had been taken from him through some invisib ...

life to Crockett. Gnomes cannot reproduce them- selves normally, so they watch for miners who stray away and doom themselves, us ...

flawed but noble man faced with a difficult job. The fantasy element is primarily associated with his mortal enemy, Morgana, who ...

the Ravenloft series, which was set in a Gothic fantasy world where vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures were ...

Golden has also written a large number of tie- in novels to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer,most of them in colla ...

Goldstein was well established as a major literary fantasist whose work could not be loosely fit into a predefined category or e ...

a new army of conquest in Pillars of Creation (2001), a search for the antidote to a deadly poison in Naked Empire(2003), and ma ...

use of the castle’s special qualities. The book won the Carnegie Medal for children’s literature. Other fantasies for young read ...

werewolf story, and The Long Night of the Grave (1986), which features a mummy. Grant moved away from Oxrun Station for most of ...

Fantasy Writers of America. The narrator works for Graves Registration, an organization within the U.S. military that retrieves, ...

cause of his seniority than for his actual stories, most of which are only intermittently available. The best and most famous of ...

petty differences in the second volume, Silver Princess, Golden Knight(1993), but they end up married in Dark Mirror, Dark Dream ...

are projected. He has also written one related short story, “Nightside, Needless to Say” (2004). Green is always an entertaining ...

Greenwood, Ed(1959– ) The popularity of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons led to the development of similar game syst ...

a serial killer, and Night Touch (1988). Runaway (1988) also fits the pattern but reduces the super- natural element to an ambig ...

one of the grey ones. Priestley’s indictment of con- formity and complacency is cleverly done and is probably his best-remembere ...

149 H Haggard, H. Rider (1856–1925) Henry Rider Haggard was a British writer who spent six years in Africa, which had a strong i ...

an issue between two rivals. Morning Star(1910) is an Egyptian historical novel with liberal doses of magic. The Mahatma and the ...

fantasies, a tendency that recurs in much of her subsequent work. More series followed, sometimes with consid- erable gaps betwe ...