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The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

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by Stableford, Brian M.


  Wiliam Morris

  Aho, Gary I. William Morris: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.

  Clutton-Briock, Arthur. William Morris: His Work and Influence. London, Williams, 1914.

  Kirchhoff, Fredrick K. William Morris. Boston: Twayne, 1979.

  Mathews, Richard. Worlds beyond the World: The Fantastic Vision of William Morris. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1978.

  Oberg, Charlotte. A Pagan Prophet: William Morris. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978.

  Silver, Carole. The Romance of William Morris. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1982.

  Thompson, Paul. The Work of William Morris. London: Heinemann, 1967; revised London: Quartet, 1977.

  James Morrow

  “The Divinely Human Comedy of James Morrow.” Special issue. Paradoxa 5, no.

  12 (1999).

  John Myers Myers

  Lerner, Fred, ed. A Silverlock Companion. Center Harbor, N.H.: Niekas, 1988.

  Robert Nathan

  Bromfield, Louis. The Work of Robert Nathan. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs Merrill, 1927.

  Sandelin, Clarence. Robert Nathan. Boston: Twayne, 1969.

  E. Nesbit

  Bell, Anthea. E. Nesbit. London: Bodley Head, 1960.

  Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1859–1924. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1987.

  Streatfeild, Noel. Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and Her Children’s Books.

  London: Benn, 1958.

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  Andre Norton

  Stephensen-Payne, Philip. Andre Norton. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 41. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1991.

  Flann O’Brien

  Clissman, Ann. Flann O’Brien: A Critical Introduction. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1975.

  Mervyn Peake

  Batchelor, John. Mervyn Peake: A Biographical and Critical Exploration. London: Duckworth, 1974.

  Gardiner-Scott, Tanya J. Mervyn Peake: The Evolution of a Dark Romantic. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

  Watney, John. Mervyn Peake. London: Michael Joseph, 1976.

  Winnington, G. Peter. Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake. London: Peter Owen, 2000.

  Charles Perrault

  Barchilon, Jacques, and Peter Flinders. Charles Perrault. Boston: Twayne, 1981.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Girvan, Waveney. Eden Phillpotts: An Assessment and a Tribute. London: Hutchinson, 1953.

  John Cowper Powys

  Brebner, John A. The Demon Within: A Study of John Cowper Powys’s Novels.

  London: Macdonald, 1973.

  Cavaliero, Glen. John Cowper Powys, Novelist. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

  Collins, H. P. John Cowper Powys: Old Earth-Man. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1966.

  Fawkner, H. W. The Ecstatic World of John Cowper Powys. Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.

  Knight, G. Wilson. The Saturnian Quest: A Chart of the Prose Works of John Cowper Powys. London: Methuen, 1964.

  Krisdottir, Morine. John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1980.

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  T. F. Powys

  Buning, Marcus. T. F. Powys: A Modern Allegorist. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986.

  Coombes, Henry. T. F. Powys. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960.

  Hunter, William. The Novels and Stories of T. F. Powys. Cambridge, U.K.: Frazer, 1930.

  Mitchell, J. Lawrence. T. F. Powys. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1982.

  Terry Pratchett

  Butler, Andrew M. The Pocket Essential Terry Pratchett. Harpenden, U.K.: Pocket Essentials, 2001.

  Butler, Andrew M., Edward James, and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Reading, U.K.: Science Fiction Foundation, 2000.

  Philip Pullman

  Squires, Claire. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy. New York: Continuum, 2003.

  Howard Pyle

  Nebitt, Elizabeth. Howard Pyle. New York: Walck, 1968.

  Pitz, Henry Clarence. A Plethora of Talent: The Creative Life of Howard Pyle.

  New York: Potter, 1975.

  François Rabelais

  Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Tr. Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

  Anne Rice

  Ramsland, Katherine. The Vampire Companion. New York: Ballantine, 1993.

  ———. The Witches’ Companion. New York: Ballantine, 1994.

  Keith Roberts

  Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Keith Roberts. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 45. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1993.

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  J. K. Rowling

  Blake, Andrew. The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter: Kid-Lit in a Globalized World. London: Verso, 2002.

  Colbert, David. The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter. London: Penguin, 2002.

  Heilman, Elizabeth E., ed. Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2002.

  Killinger, John. God, the Devil and Harry Potter. New York: St. Martin’s, 2003.

  Kroznek, Allan Zola, and Elizabeth Zola. The Sorcerer’s Companion. New York: Broadway Books, 2001.

  Schafer, Elizabeth D. Exploring Harry Potter. London: Ebury, 2000.

  Smith, Sean. J. K. Rowling: A Biography, London: Michael O’Mara, 2001.

  Whited, Lana A., ed. The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.

  Salman Rushdie

  Brennan, Timothy. Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation.

  London, Macmillan, 1989.

  Harrison, James. Salman Rushdie. New York: Twayne, 1991.

  William Shakespeare

  Darling, Benjamin. Shakespeare on Fairies and Magic. New York: Prentice Hall, 2001.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Alexander, Edward. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Boston: Twayne, 1980.

  Buchen, Irving H. Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Eternal Past. New York: New York University Press, 1968.

  Friedman, Lawrence S. Understanding Isaac Bashevis Singer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Behrends, Steve. Clark Ashton Smith. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1990.

  Sidney-Fryer, Donald. Clark Ashton Smith: The Sorcerer Departs. West Hills, Calif.: Tsathoggua, 1997.

  ———. Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography. West Kingston, R.I.: Donald Grant, 1978.

  ———. The Last of the Great Romantic Poets. Albuquerque, N. M.: Silver Scarab, 1973.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY • 491

  James Stephens

  Martin, Augustine. James Stephens: A Critical Study. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1977.

  McFate, Patricia. The Writings of James Stephens: Variations on a Theme of Love.

  New York: St. Martin’s, 1979.

  Pyle, Hilary. James Stephens: His Work and an Account of His Life. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jones, William B., Jr. Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Stephensen-Payne, Philip, and Gordon Benson Jr. Theodore Sturgeon. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 32. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1989.

  Thomas Burnett Swann

  Collins, Robert A. Thomas Burnett Swann: A Brief Critical Biography and Annotated Bibliography. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University College of Humanities, 1979.

  James Thurber

  Holmes, Charles S. The Clocks of Columbus: The Literary Career of James Thurber. New York: Atheneum, 1973.

  Long, Robert Emmet. James Thurber. New York: Ungar, 1988.

  Morberger, Robert E. James Thurber. Boston: Twayne, 1964.

  J. R. R.
Tolkien

  Bassham, Gregory, and Eric Bronson, eds. The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All. Chicago: Open Court, 2003.

  Bates, Brian. The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J. R. R. Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2002.

  Carpenter, Humphrey. Tolkien: A Biography. London: Allen and Unwin, 1977.

  Challis, Erica, ed. The People’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Cold Spring, 2003.

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  Chance, Jane, ed. Tolkien the Medievalist. New York: Routledge, 2003.

  ———, ed. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

  ———. Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, revised 2001. [Original edition London: Macmillan, 1979, as by Jane C. Nitzsche.]

  Clark, George, and Daniel Timmons, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-Earth. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000.

  Crabbe, Katharyn F. J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Ungar, 1981; revised 1988.

  Day, David. Tolkien’s Ring. London: HarperCollins, 1994.

  ———. The World of Tolkien: Mythological Sources of The Lord of the Rings. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003.

  Ellwood, Robert. Frodo’s Quest: Living the Myth in The Lord of the Rings.

  Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 2002.

  Evans, Robley. J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Warner, 1972.

  Flieger, Verlyn. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1983; revised Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2002.

  Flieger, Verlyn, and Carl F. Hofstedder, eds. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle Earth. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000.

  Foster, Robert. The Complete Guide to Middle-earth. New York: Ballantine, 1978

  [revision of Mirage Press edition, 1971].

  Garth, John. Tolkien in the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollins, 2003.

  Giddings, Robert, ed. Tolkien: This Far Land. London: Vision, 1983.

  Haber, Karen, ed. Meditations on Middle-Earth. New York: St. Martin’s, 2001.

  Harvey, David. The Song of Middle-Earth: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Themes, Symbols, and Myths. London: Allen and Unwin, 1985.

  Helms, Randel. Tolkien and the Silmarils. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981.

  ———. Tolkien’s World. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

  Isaacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo, eds. Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives.

  Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1981.

  ———, eds. Tolkien and the Critics. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.

  Johnson, Judith A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.

  Jones, Leslie Ellen, Myth & Middle-earth. New York: Cold Spring, 2002.

  Kocher, Paul H. Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

  Lobdell, Jared. England and Always: Tolkien’s World of the Rings. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1981.

  ———, ed. A Tolkien Compass. Chicago: Open Court, 1975.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY • 493

  Mathews, Richard. Lightning from a Clear Sky: J. R. R. Tolkien. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1978.

  Nitzche, Jane C. Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England. London: Macmillan, 1979. [Revised edition Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001, as by Jane Chance.]

  Noel, Ruth S. The Mythology of Middle-Earth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.

  O’Neill, Timothy, R. The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien and the Archetypes of Middle-earth. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

  Petty, Anne C. Tolkien in the Land of Heroes. New York: Cold Spring, 2003.

  Purtill, Richard L. J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

  Rogers, Deborah, and Ivor Rogers. J. R. R. Tolkien. Boston: Twayne, 1980.

  Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A Critical Assessment. London: Macmillan, 1992; revised and expanded as Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon: Revised Edition, 2004.

  Shippey, T. A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. London: HarperCollins, 2000.

  ———. The Road to Middle-Earth. London: Allen and Unwin, 1982; revised London: Grafton, 1992; further revised as The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R.

  Tolkien Created a New Mythology. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

  Smith, Mark Eddy. Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of The Lord of the Rings. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2002.

  Stanton, Michael N. Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards: Exploring the Wonders and Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” New York: Palgrave, 2001; expanded edition 2002.

  Zimbardo, Rose A., and Neil D. Isaacs, eds. Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

  Jack Vance

  Cunningham, A. E., ed. Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography.

  Boston Spa, Yorkshire, U.K.: British Library, 2000.

  Mead, David G. An Encyclopedia of Jack Vance, 20th-Century Science Fiction Writer. 3 vols. Studies in American Literature, no. 50. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002.

  Rawlins, Jack. Demon Prince: The Dissonant Worlds of Jack Vance. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1986.

  Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Jack Vance. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 28. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1988.

  Tiedman, Richard. Jack Vance: Science Fiction Stylist. Wabash, Ind.: Coulson, 1965.

  Underwood, Tim, and Chuck Miller, eds. Jack Vance. New York: Taplinger, 1980.

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  Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

  Little, Denise, ed. Realms of Dragons: The Universes of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. New York: HarperPrism, 1999.

  T. H. White

  Crane, John K. T. H. White. Boston: Twayne, 1974.

  Warner, Sylvia Townsend. T. H. White: A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.

  Charles Williams

  Cavaliero, Glen. Charles Williams: Poet of Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1983.

  Hadfield, Alice Mary. Charles Williams: An Exploration of His Life and Work. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1983.

  Howard, Thomas T. The Novels of Charles Williams. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1983.

  Shideler, Mary McDermott. The Theology of Romantic Love: A Study in the Writings of Charles Williams. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1962.

  Sibley, Agnes. Charles Williams. Boston: Twayne, 1982.

  Soencer, Kathleen. Charles Williams. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.

  Gene Wolfe

  Andre-Driussi, Michael. Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle. San Francisco: Sirius, 1994.

  Gordon, Joan. Gene Wolfe. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.

  Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Gene Wolfe. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 19. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1991

  Wright, Peter. Attending Dedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2003.

  Roger Zelazny

  Krulik, Theodore. Roger Zelazny. New York: Ungar, 1986.

  Lindskold, Jane. Roger Zelazny. New York: Twayne, 1993.

  Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Roger Zelazny. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 38. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1991.

  Yoke, Carl B. Roger Zelazny. West Linn, Ore.: Starmont House, 1979.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY • 495

  WRITING GUIDES AND MANUALS

  Budrys, Algis. Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Eugene, Ore.: Pulphouse, 1990.

  Card, Orson Scott. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Dig
est, 1990.

  Stableford, Brian. Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction. London: Teach Yourself Books, 1997.

  Tuttle, Lisa. Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction. London: A&C Black, 2001.

  SCHOLARLY FANTASIES

  Blavatsky, Helena P. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology. 2 vols. New York: J. W. Bouton, 1882.

  ———. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy.

  2 vols. Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1888. Expanded edition 4 vols. 1910; further expanded to 6 vols. 1938.

  Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice by the Master Therion. Paris: Lecram, 1929.

  Donnelly, Ignatius. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. New York: Harper, 1882.

  Fortune, Dion. Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science. London: Rider, 1931.

  ———. The Training and Work of an Initiate. London: Rider, 1930.

  Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1890; expanded 3rd edition 12 vols. London: Macmillan, 1911–15.

  Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. London: George Allen, 1913.

  [Original German publication 1900.]

  Gardner, Gerald B. The Meaning of Witchcraft. London: Aquarian, 1959.

  ———. Witchcraft Today. London: Rider, 1954.

  Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. Translated by Lewis Thorpe. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Peguin, 1966. [First published c1136.]

  Grant, Kenneth. Hecate’s Fountain. London: Skoob, 1992.

  ———. Magical Revival. London: Muller, 1972.

  ———. Outside the Circles of Time. London: Frederick Muller, 1980.

  Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. London: Faber and Faber, 1948.

  Hay, George, ed. The Necronomicon. London: Skoob, 1992.

  Hubbard, L. Ron. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. New York: Hermitage House, 1950.

  Hughes, Ted. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. London: Faber and Faber, 1992.

  Jennings, Hargrave. The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries. 2 vols. London: John C. Nimmo, 1887.

  496 • BIBLIOGRAPHY

  King, Francis. Ritual Magic in England: 1887 to the Present Day. London: Spear-man, 1970.

  Leland, Charles Godfrey. Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches. London: David Nutt, 1899.

  ———. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.

  Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme et rituel de la haute magie. Paris: Germer Ballière, 1856.

 

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