From: speterse%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
Subject: Canonical Genre Fiction: Fantasy
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:40:17 MDT
Organization: The Erland Cult



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Fantasy:  The 100 Best Books
James Cawthorn & Michael Moorcock

  1. Gulliver's Travels		Johathan Swift
  2. The Castle of Otranto	Horace Walpole
  3. Vathek			William Beckford
  4. The Monk			Matthew Gregory Lewis
  5. Frankenstein		Mary Shelley
  6. Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Robert Maturin
  7. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
				Edgar Allan Poe
  8. A Christmas Carol		Charles Dickens
  9. Wuthering Heights		Emily Bronte
 10. Moby-Dick			Herman Melville
 11. Uncle Silas:  A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
				J. Sheridan LeFanu
 12. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass
				Lewis Carroll
 13. Flatland			Edwin A. Abbott
 14. She			Henry Rider Haggard
 15. Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
 16. The Twilight of the Gods	Richard Garnett
 17. The Story of the Glittering Plain
				William Morris
 18. The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
 19. Dracula			Bram Stoker
 20. The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
 21. The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
 22. The House on the Borderland
				William Hope Hodgson
 23. Black Magic		Marjorie Bowen
 24. Zuleika Dobson		Max Beerbohm
 25. A Princess of Mars		Edgar Rice Burroughs
 26. Tarzan of the Apes		Edgar Rice Burroughs
 27. The Lost World		Arthur Conan Doyle
 28. The Night Land		William Hope Hodgson
 29. Herland			Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 30. The Citadel of Fear	Francis Stevens
 31. A Voyage to Arcturus	David Lindsay
 32. The Worm Ouroboros		E.R. Eddison
 33. The Haunted Woman		David Lindsay
 34. Lady into Fox/A Man in the Zoo
				David Garnett
 35. The King of Elfland's Daughter
				Lord Dunsany
 36. The Ship of Ishtar		Abraham Merritt
 37. The Trial/The Castle	Franz Kafka
 38. Witch Wood			John Buchan
 39. War in Heaven		Charles Williams
 40. Turnabout			Thorne Smith
 41. The Night Life of the Gods	Thorne Smith
 42. Dwellers in the Mirage	Abraham Merritt
 43. Zothique			Clark Ashton Smith
 44. The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
 45. Lost Horizon		James Hilton
 46. Northwest Smith		Catherine L. Moore
 47. Jirel of Joiry		Catherine L. Moore
 48. The Circus of Dr. Lao	Charles G. Finney
 49. Land Under England		Joseph O'Neill
 50. Conan the Conqueror	Robert E. Howard
 51. At the Mountains of Madness
				H.P. Lovecraft
 52. To Walk the Night		William Sloane
 53. Roads			Seabury Quinn
 54. The Once and Future King	T.H. White
 55. Slaves of Sleep		L. Ron Hubbard
 56. Caravan for China		Frank R. Stuart
 57. Fear			L. Ron Hubbard
 58. Darker than You Think	Jack Williamson
 59. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
				H.P. Lovecraft
 60. Land of Unreason		Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague De Camp
 61. Conjure Wife		Fritz Leiber
 62. The Book of Ptath		A.E. Van Vogt
 63. The Dark World/The Valley of the Flame
				Henry Kuttner
 64. Titus Groan/Gormenghast/Titus Alone
				Mervyn Peake
 65. The Exploits of Engelbrecht
				Maurice Richardson
 66. Mistress Masham's Repose	T.H. White
 67. Adept's Gambit		Fritz Leiber
 68. The Well of the Unicorn	Fletcher Pratt
 69. You're All Alone		Fritz Leiber
 70. The Dying Earth		Jack Vance
 71. The Devil in Velvet	John Dickson Carr
 72. The Tritonian Ring		L. Sprague De Camp
 73. Three Hearts and Three Lions
				Poul Anderson
 74. The Sword of Rhiannon	Leigh Brackett
 75. The Broken Sword		Poul Anderson
 76. The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien
 77. The Golden Strangers	Henry Treece
 78. The Great Captains		Henry Treece
 79. The Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
 80. Stormbringer		Michael Morcock
 81. The Serpent/Atlan/The City/Some Summer Lands
				Jane Gaskell
 82. The Crystal World		J.G. Ballard
 83. Black Easter/The Day After Judgement
				James Blish
 84. Rosemary's Baby		Ira Levin
 85. A Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin
 86. The Green Man		Kingsley Amis
 87. Neither the Sea nor the Sand
				Gordon Honeycombe
 88. The Philosopher's Stone	Colin Wilson
 89. The Pastel City		M. John Harrison
 90. The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
				Angela Carter
 91. Red Shift			Alan Garner
 92. The Compleat Enchanter	L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
 93. The Alteration		Kingsley Amis
 94. Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Leiber
 95. The Drawing of the Dark	Tim Powers
 96. The Sending		Geoffrey Household
 97. The Color of Magic/The Light Fantastic
				Terry Pratchett
 98. The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
				Thomas M. Disch
 99. Hawksmoor			Peter Ackroyd
100. Expecting Someone Taller	Tom Holt

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Modern Fantasy:  The Hundred Best Books:  An English Language Selection, 
    1946-1987
David Pringle

  1. Titus Groan		Mervin Peake
  2. The Book of Ptath		A.E. Van Vogt
  3. The Well of the Unicorn	Fletcher Pratt
  4. Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
  5. Seven Days in New Crete	Robert Graves
  6. Silverlock			John Myers Myers
  7. The Castle of Iron		L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
  8. Conan the Conqueror	Robert E. Howard
  9. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
				C.S. Lewis
 10. Gormenghast		Mervin Peake
 11. The Dying Earth		Jack Vance
 12. The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
 13. Conjure Wife		Fritz Leiber
 14. The Sinful Ones		Fritz Leiber
 15. The Broken Sword		Poul Anderson
 16. The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien
 17. Pincher Martin		William Golding
 18. The Shrinking Man		Richard Matheson
 19. Dandelion Wine		Ray Bradbury
 20. The Once and Future King	T.H. White
 21. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
				Robert A. Heinlein
 22. The Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
 23. Titus Alone		Mervyn Peake
 24. A Fine and Private Place	Peter S. Beagle
 25. Three Hearts and Three Lions
				Poul Anderson
 26. The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
				John D. MacDonald
 27. Glory Road			Robert A. Heinlein
 28. Witch World		Andre Norton
 29. The Magus			John Fowles
 30. Stormbringer		Michael Moorcock
 31. The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon
 32. Day of the Minotaur	Thomas Burnett Swann
 33. The Eyes of the Overworld	Jack Vance
 34. The Owl Service		Alan Garner
 35. Rosemary's Baby		Ira Levin
 36. The Third Policeman	Flann O'Brien
 37. Gog			Andrew Sinclair
 38. The Last Unicorn		Peter S. Beagle
 39. A Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin
 40. The Swords of Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber
 41. Black Easter/The Day After Judgement
				James Blish
 42. The Green Man		Kingsley Amis
 43. The Phoenix and the Mirror	Avram Davidson
 44. A Feast Unknown		Philip Jose Farmer
 45. Fourth Mansions		R.A. Lafferty
 46. Red Moon and Black Mountain
				Joy Chant
 47. Time and Again		Jack Finney
 48. Grendel			John Gardner
 49. Briefing for a Descent into Hell
				Doris Lessing
 50. Jack of Shadows		Roger Zelazny
 51. Watership Down		Richard Adams
 52. The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
				Angela Carter
 53. Sweet Dreams		Michael Frayn
 54. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
				Patricia A. McKillip
 55. 'Salem's Lot		Stephen King
 56. The Great Victorian Collection
				Brian Moore
 57. Grimus			Salman Rushdie
 58. Peace			Gene Wolfe
 59. The Malacia Tapestry	Brian Aldiss
 60. The Dragon and the George	Gordon R. Dickson
 61. Hotel de Dream		Emma Tennant
 62. The Passion of New Eve	Angela Carter
 63. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
				Stephen R. Donaldson
 64. The Shining		Stephen King
 65. Fata Morgana		William Kotzwinkle
 66. Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Leiber
 67. Gloriana			Michael Moorcock
 68. The Unlimited Dream Company
				J.G. Ballard
 69. Sorcerer's Son		Phyllis Eisenstein
 70. The Land of Laughs		Jonathan Carroll
 71. The Vampire Tapestry	Suzy McKee Charnas
 72. A Storm of Wings		M. John Harrison
 73. White Light		Rudy Rucker
 74. Ariosto			Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
 75. Cities of the Red Night	William S. Burroughs
 76. Little, Big		John Crowley
 77. Lanark			Alasdair Gray
 78. The War Hound and the World's Pain
				Michael Moorcock
 79. Nifft the Lean		Michael Shea
 80. Winter's Tale		Mark Helprin
 81. Soul Eater			K.W. Jeter
 82. Tea with the Black Dragon	R.A. MacAvoy
 83. Cold Heaven		Brian Moore
 84. The Anubis Gates		Tim Powers
 85. Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
 86. The Digging Leviathan	James P. Blaylock
 87. Nights at the Circus	Angela Carter
 88. The Businessman		Thomas M. Disch
 89. Mythago Wood		Robert Holdstock
 90. The Glamour		Christopher Priest
 91. The Witches of Eastwick	John Updike
 92. Hawksmoor			Peter Ackroyd
 93. The Dream Years		Lisa Goldstein
 94. The Fionovar Tapestry	Guy Gavriel Kay
 95. The Bridge			Iain Banks
 96. The Hungry Moon		Ramsey Campbell
 97. Replay			Ken Grimwood
 98. The Unconquered Country	Geoff Ryman
 99. The Day of Creation	J.G. Ballard
100. Aegypt			John Crowley

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