James & Mendlesohn, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy
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This is an anthology of essays about fantasy by various contributors, in the same format as the editors' earlier volume on science fiction. Compiled here are titles from the chronology list of stories and books at the front of the volume.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 277
Publication: Cambridge, 2012
Compile Notes
A much longer list, not compiled here, is in the editors' 2009 book A Short History of Fantasy.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 277
Publication: Cambridge, 2012
Compile Notes
A much longer list, not compiled here, is in the editors' 2009 book A Short History of Fantasy.
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Jonathan Cape, 1962)
- Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964)
- Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions (Doubleday, 1961)
- Anonymous, Beowulf (c. 975-1025)
- Anonymous, The Mabinogion (--, 1100?)
- Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon (Del Rey, 1977)
- Eleanor Arnason, Daughter of the Bear King (Avon, 1987)
- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Macmillan, 1970)
- Clive Barker, Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III (Sphere, 1984)
- Clive Barker, Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI (Sphere, 1985)
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Hodder & Stoughton, 1906)
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (George Hill , 1900)
- Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place (Viking, 1960)
- Elisabeth Beresford, The Wombles (Puffin, 1968)
- James P. Blaylock, The Elfin Ship (Del Rey, 1982)
- Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe (Faber, 1954)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Shattered Chain (DAW, 1976)
- Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (Ballantine, 1977)
- Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland (Caritat, 1798)
- Anthony Browne, The Tunnel (MacRae, 1989)
- John Brunner, The Traveler in Black (Ace Special, 1971)
- Steven Brust, Jhereg (Ace, 1983)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion (HarperCollins/Eos, 2001)
- Emma Bull, War for the Oaks (Ace, 1987)
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (-, 1678)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (McClurg, 1914)
- Charles Butler, The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins Voyager, 2004)
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (Doubleday, 1979)
- James Branch Cabell, Jurgen (Robert M McBride, 1919)
- Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977; Italy 1969)
- Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son (Tor, 1987)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno (Macmillan, 1889)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871)
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and other stories (Gollancz, 1979)
- Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Hart-Davis , 1972)
- Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow (Neely, 1895)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor, 2002)
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury, 2004)
- Babette Cole, The Trouble with Mum (Littlehampton, 1983)
- Sara Coleridge, Phantasmion (1837)
- Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio (Felice Paggi, 1883)
- Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (Macdonald , 1987)
- Glen Cook, The Black Company (Tor, 1984)
- Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone (Cape, 1965)
- Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds (Richard Bentley, 1886)
- F. Marion Crawford, Khaled (Macmillan, 1891)
- John Crowley, Aegypt (Bantam Spectra, 1987)
- John Crowley, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981)
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Knopf, 1964)
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute (Warner Aspect, 2001)
- Madame d'Aulnoy, Les Contes des Fées [Tales of the Fairies] (1697)
- Michael de Larrabeiti, The Borribles (Bodley Head, 1976)
- Charles de Lint, Jack the Giant-Killer (Ace, 1987)
- Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (Bantam, 1979)
- Gordon R. Dickson, The Dragon and the George (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1976)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- Sara Douglass, Battle Axe (HarperCollins, 1995)
- Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegana (Elkin Mathews, 1905)
- Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Putnam, 1924)
- Edward Eager, Half Magic (Harcourt Brace, 1954)
- David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (Del Rey , 1982)
- E. R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses (Faber and Faber, 1935)
- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros (Jonathan Cape, 1922)
- Kate Elliott, King's Dragon (DAW, 1997)
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story (Doubleday, 1983)
- Penelope Farmer, Charlotte Sometimes (Harcourt, 1969)
- Raymond E. Feist, Magician (Doubleday , 1982)
- Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (Viking, 1935)
- John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting (Timescape, 1983)
- Friedrich Fouqué, Undine (C. & J. Ollier, 1818; Germany 1811)
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2001)
- Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2005)
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (BBC Books, 1996)
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (series, 1988-1996)
- Antoine Galland, trans, Les mille et une nuits [The Thousand and One Nights] (1704-1717)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (In Spanish, 1967; Harper & Row, 1970)
- John Gardner, Grendel (Knopf , 1971)
- Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Collins, 1967)
- Alan Garner, The Stone Book Quartet (Collins, 1983)
- Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins , 1960)
- David Gemmell, Legend (Century, 1984)
- Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History (Gollancz, 2000)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (The Forerunner, 1915)
- Greer Ilene Gilman, Moonwise (Roc, 1991)
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
- Lisa Goldstein, The Alchemist's Door (Tor, 2002)
- Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule (Millennium, 1994)
- Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child (Red Deer Press, 2001)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Thames Methuen, 1908)
- Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night (Ballantine Del Rey, 1988)
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures (Ace, 1993)
- Virginia Hamilton, Justice and Her Brothers (Greenwillow, 1978)
- Elizabeth Hand, Mortal Love (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2004)
- Elizabeth Hand, Waking the Moon (HarperCollins, 1994)
- Frances Hardinge, Verdigris Deep (Macmillan, 2007)
- Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Ace, 2001)
- Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (-, 1880)
- M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart (Gollancz, 1992)
- M. John Harrison, The Pastel City (NEL, 1971)
- David G. Hartwell, ed., The Dark Descent (Tor, 1987)
- Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child (Harper & Row, 1967)
- Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Bantam Spectra, 1995)
- William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (Chapman & Hall, 1907)
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (Chapman & Hall, 1908)
- Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (Warner Aspect, 1998)
- Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (Warner Aspect, 2000)
- Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads (Warner, 2003)
- Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nightmare (Dedalus, 1983)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Edward Arnold, 1904)
- Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland (Ernest Benn, 1951; Finland 1946)
- N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit, 2010)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Archer's Goon (Methuen, 1984)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Eight Days of Luke (Macmillan, 1975)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock (Morrow/Greenwillow, 1984)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Wilkins' Tooth (Macmillan, 1973)
- Gwyneth Jones, Bold as Love (Gollancz, 2001)
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (Epstein & Carroll, 1961)
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (The Parton Press, 1937; Germany 1915)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium (Viking Canada, 1998)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Sarantine Mosaic (SFBC, 2000)
- Stephen King, Carrie (Doubleday, 1974)
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (Donald M. Grant, 1982)
- Stephen King & Peter Straub, The Talisman (Donald M. Grant, 1984)
- Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies (Macmillan, 1863)
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (Macmillan , 1894)
- Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies (Macmillan, 1910)
- Katherine Kurtz, Deryni Rising (Ballantine, 1970)
- Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint (Arbor House, 1987)
- Margo Lanagan, Black Juice (Allen & Unwin, 2004)
- Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book (Longmans, Green & Co, 1889)
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu, In a Glass Darkly (Richard Bentley, 1872)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu (Atheneum, 1990)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Bodley Head, 1938)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (unknown, 1796)
- Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart (Viking, 1975; Sweden 1973)
- Megan Lindholm, Wizard of the Pigeons (Ace, 1986)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen (Small Beer Press, 2001)
- Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Frederick A. Stokes, 1920)
- Jane Loudon, The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Henry Colburn , 1827)
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow over Innsmouth (Visionary Publishing, 1936)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower (Berkley-Putnam, 1979)
- R. A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon (Bantam, 1983)
- George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (Strahan and Co, 1870)
- George MacDonald, Lilith (Chatto and Windus, 1895)
- George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Smith Elder , 1858)
- George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Routledge, 1871)
- Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (John Lane, 1894)
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked (HarperCollins, 1995)
- Margaret Mahy, The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance (Dent, 1984)
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur (unknown, 1485)
- George R. R. Martin, Fevre Dream (Poseidon Press, 1982)
- George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (HarperCollins Voyager, 1996)
- John Masefield, The Midnight Folk (Heineman, 1927)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
- Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (Hurst, Robinson, 1820)
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
- Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day (Bantam Spectra, 1991)
- David McKee, Not Now, Bernard (Andersen, 1980)
- Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed (Atheneum, 1976)
- George Meredith, The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment (Chapman and Hall, 1856)
- A. Merritt, The Dwellers in the Mirage (Liveright , 1932)
- A. Merritt, The Moon Pool (Putnam , 1919)
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005)
- Gustav Meyrink, The Golem (Houghton Mifflin, 1928; Germany 1915)
- China Miéville, Iron Council (Ballantine Del Rey, 2004)
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
- China Miéville, Un Lun Dun (Ballantine Del Rey, 2007)
- Frank Miller, Klaus Janson & Lynn Varley, The Dark Knight Returns (DC Comics, 1986)
- A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (Methuen, 1926)
- Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Collins, 1926)
- Michael Moorcock, Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (Allison & Busby, 1978)
- William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Kelmscott Press, 1897)
- William Morris, The Well at the World's End (Kelmscott Press, 1896)
- William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World (Kelmscott Press, 1894)
- James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter (William Morrow, 1990)
- John Myers Myers, Silverlock (Dutton, 1949)
- Suniti Namjoshi, The Conversations of Cow (The Women's Press, 1985)
- E. Nesbit, Five Children and It (T. Fisher Unwin, 1902)
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet (Newnes, 1904)
- E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet (Unwin, 1906)
- E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Unwin, 1899)
- Andre Norton, Witch World (Ace , 1963)
- Mary Norton, The Borrowers (Dent, 1952)
- Mary Norton, The Magic Bedknob (Dent, 1943)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death (DAW, 2010)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg , 1945)
- Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl (Bloomsbury, 2005)
- Ruth Park, Playing Beattie Bow (Nelson Australia, 1980)
- K. J. Parker, Colours in the Steel (Orbit, 1998)
- Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire (Harvard University Press, 1974)
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden (Oxford, 1958)
- Charles Perrault, Tales of Mother Goose (1695)
- John Polidori, The Vampyre: A Tale (Sherwood, Neeley and Jones, 1819)
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne & Co., 1902)
- Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (Ace, 1983)
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Gollancz, 1992)
- Fletcher Pratt, The Well of the Unicorn (Sloane , 1948)
- Christopher Priest, The Affirmation (Faber and Faber, 1981)
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic, 1995)
- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Penguin Press, 2006)
- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794)
- Clara Reeve, The Champion of Virtue (unknown, 1777)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Keith Roberts, Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
- Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1862)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury, 1997)
- Nicholas Royle, Counterparts (Barrington, 1993)
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (1959)
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Jonathan Cape, 1981)
- Geoff Ryman, The Warrior Who Carried Life (Allen & Unwin, 1985)
- Charles R. Saunders, Imaro (DAW, 1981)
- Maurice Sendak, In the Night Kitchen (Harper & Row, 1970)
- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (Harper & Row, 1963)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove (Dutton, 1993)
- Dan Simmons, Ilium (Eos, 2003)
- Thorne Smith, The Night Life of the Gods (Doubleday Doran, 1931)
- Thorne Smith, Topper (McBride, 1926)
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (William Ponsonby, 1590)
- Brian Stableford, The Empire Of Fear (Simon & Schuster, 1988)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
- Sean Stewart, Galveston (Ace, 2000)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Catherine Storr, Marianne Dreams (Faber and Faber, 1958)
- Peter Straub, If You Could See Me Now (Jonathan Cape, 1977)
- Patrick Süskind, Perfume (Knopf, 1986)
- Michael Swanwick, The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Millennium, 1993)
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Benjamin Motte, 1726)
- Sheri S. Tepper, Beauty (Doubleday Foundation, 1991)
- William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring (unknown, 1855)
- Ngugi Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow (Pantheon, 2006; Kenya 2004)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
- P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins (HarperCollins, 1934)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Webster , 1889)
- Alison Uttley, A Traveller in Time (Faber & Faber, 1939)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
- Jack Vance, Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden (Berkley, 1983)
- Jeff VanderMeer, Shriek: An Afterword (Macmillan/Tor UK, 2006)
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (T. Lownds, 1764)
- Evangeline Walton, The Virgin and the Swine (Willett, Clark, 1936)
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (TSR, 1984)
- Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out (Hutchinson, 1935)
- John Whitbourn, A Dangerous Energy (Gollancz, 1992)
- E. B. White, Charlotte's Web (Harper & Brothers, 1952)
- T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose (Putnam, 1946)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone (Collins, 1938)
- Kit Whitfield, Bareback (Cape, 2006)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891)
- Cherry Wilder, A Princess of the Chameln (Atheneum, 1984)
- Charles Williams, War in Heaven (Gollancz, 1930)
- Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair (DAW, 1988)
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist (Tor, 1986)
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando (Hogarth , 1928)
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Hôtel Transylvania (St. Martin's, 1978)
- Jane Yolen, Dragon's Blood (Delacorte, 1982)
- Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber (Doubleday, 1970)
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