Searles & Michael Franklin, A Reader's Guide to Fantasy
science fiction awards database
As in the earlier SF volume, the authors provide ~page-long essays about 200 authors and their major works, with suggestions in each case for other authors you might like. Appendices include lists of series titles, awards, and a brief history of fantasy. Compiled here are 31 titles from the "Seven-League Shelf" list of books the authors consider to be "the cream of the crop."
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 35
Publication: book, 1982
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 35
Publication: book, 1982
- Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schuman, 1954)
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (George Hill , 1900)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- Ray Bradbury, Dark Carnival (Arkham House, 1947)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Putnam, 1924)
- Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (Viking, 1935)
- Alan Garner, The Moon of Gomrath (Collins , 1963)
- Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins , 1960)
- Jane Gaskell, The Atlan Saga (series, 1963-1977)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Thames Methuen, 1908)
- H. Rider Haggard, She (Harper and Bros, 1886)
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (Chapman & Hall, 1908)
- Robert E. Howard, Conan (series, 1950-1986)
- M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Edward Arnold, 1904)
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (Macmillan , 1894)
- Fritz Leiber, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser (series, 1957-1991)
- C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (Geoffrey Bles, 1956)
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow over Innsmouth (Visionary Publishing, 1936)
- George MacDonald, The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (Sampson Low, 1882)
- Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle Master Trilogy (series, 1977-1979)
- A. Merritt, The Ship of Ishtar (Putnam , 1926)
- Naomi Mitchison, To the Chapel Perilous (Allen and Unwin, 1955)
- Michael Moorcock, Elric (series, 1963-2005)
- C. L. Moore, Black God's Shadow (Donald M. Grant, 1977)
- E. Nesbit, Five Children and It (T. Fisher Unwin, 1902)
- Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Trilogy (series, 1946-1959)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Signet Classic, 1960)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Chronicles of Middle Earth (series, 1937-1955)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Charles Williams, War in Heaven (Gollancz, 1930)
- Herbert Wise & Phyllis Cerf Wagner, ed., Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library , 1944)
- Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia (Farrar and Rinehart, 1942)
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