This hefty reference offers a substantial critical and historical guide to fantasy and horror literature, illustration, TV, film, radio, and the Internet. The authors pack an impressive amount of information into this reference, which covers Australian SF from early romances and utopian works to the rise of traditional SF, and the recent recognition Australian SF has received in the '90s. This collection features eleven stories, eight original, an eclectic mix of suspense, gothic horror, dark fantasy, and even science fiction, that displays the range and power of this master of the mysterious and macabre.
Exhaustive introductions cover literary and economic developments in the field.
Children's nightmares of monsters in the closet and things that go bump in the night are terrifyingly real in this baroque dark fantasy of a girl who discovers a doorway to a grim Hallowe'en world in her uncle's basement. A noted fantasy scholar explores the roots and distinctive qualities of British fantasy, from early fairy tales to Tolkien and on to recent writers such as Robert Holdstock, Christopher Priest, Terry Pratchett, Salman Rushdie, and Philip Pullman. Madness and destruction haunt Prestimion in this latest novel, second in a trilogy, in Silverberg's popular ''Majipoor'' series. In the aftermath of war, Prestimion tries to heal his people with a Spell of Oblivion forgetting they will have to deal with the wounds of a war they can't remember. Grim and exotic, this third volume of ''The Sun Sword'' offers culture clashes as seer Jewel ATerafin travels to exotic Tor Leonne in time for the Festival of the Moon, where demon masks threaten to turn the party hellish.