Cawthorn & Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books
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In the manner of Pringle's SF volume, the authors provide 1-2 page summaries of 100 selected best books, listed chronologically. Since several entries refer to two or more titles, a total of 111 titles are compiled from this source, listed below. Pringle's own fantasy volume appeared the same year, from a different publisher.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 111
Publication: Carroll & Graf, 1988
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 111
Publication: Carroll & Graf, 1988
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (Seeley, 1884)
- Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (Hamish Hamilton, 1985)
- Kingsley Amis, The Alteration (Cape, 1976)
- Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (Cape, 1969)
- Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schuman, 1954)
- Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions (Doubleday, 1961)
- J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
- William Beckford, Vathek (J. Johnson, 1786)
- Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (William Heinemann, 1911)
- James Blish, Black Easter (Doubleday, 1968)
- James Blish, The Day After Judgment (Doubleday, 1971)
- Marjorie Bowen, Black Magic (Alston Rivers, 1909)
- Leigh Brackett, The Sword Of Rhiannon (Ace Double, 1953)
- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights ( Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847)
- John Buchan, Witch Wood (Hodder & Stoughton, 1927)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (McClurg, 1914)
- John Dickson Carr, The Devil in Velvet (Harper and Brothers, 1951)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871)
- Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Hart-Davis , 1972)
- G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (Arrowsmith, 1908)
- L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt, The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1975)
- L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt, The Land of Unreason (Henry Holt, 1942)
- L. Sprague de Camp, The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales (Twayne, 1953)
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Chapman and Hall, 1843)
- Thomas M. Disch, The Businessman (Harper & Row, 1984)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
- Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Putnam, 1924)
- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros (Jonathan Cape, 1922)
- Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris (Farrar and Rinehart, 1933)
- Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (Viking, 1935)
- Alan Garner, Red Shift (Collins, 1973)
- David S. Garnett, Lady into Fox (Chatto and Windus, 1922)
- David S. Garnett, A Man in the Zoo (Chatto and Windus, 1924)
- Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales (T Fisher Unwin, 1888)
- Jane Gaskell, Atlan (Hodder and Stoughton, 1965)
- Jane Gaskell, The City (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966)
- Jane Gaskell, The Serpent (Hodder and Stoughton, 1963)
- Jane Gaskell, Some Summer Lands (Hodder and Stoughton, 1977)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (The Forerunner, 1915)
- H. Rider Haggard, She (Harper and Bros, 1886)
- M. John Harrison, The Pastel City (NEL, 1971)
- James Hilton, Lost Horizon (Macmillan, 1933)
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (Chapman & Hall, 1908)
- William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (Eveleigh Nash , 1912)
- Tom Holt, Expecting Someone Taller (Macmillan , 1987)
- Gordon Honeycombe, Neither the Sea nor the Sand (Hutchison, 1969)
- Geoffrey Household, The Sending (Michael Joseph, 1980)
- Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp, Conan the Conqueror (Gnome , 1950)
- L. Ron Hubbard, Fear (Gnome, 1951)
- L. Ron Hubbard, Slaves of Sleep (Shasta, 1948)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Heinemann, 1898)
- Franz Kafka, The Castle (Secker and Warburg, 1930; Germany 1926)
- Franz Kafka, The Trial (Gollancz, 1937; Germany 1925)
- Henry Kuttner, The Dark World (Ace, 1965)
- Henry Kuttner, Valley of the Flame (Ace, 1964)
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (Richard Bentley, 1864)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Fritz Leiber, Adept's Gambit (Arkham House, in Night's Black Agents, 1947)
- Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife (Twayne, 1953)
- Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (Berkley-Putnam, 1977)
- Fritz Leiber, You're All Alone (Ace, 1972)
- Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby (Random House, 1967)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (unknown, 1796)
- David Lindsay, The Haunted Woman (Methuen, 1922)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (Astounding, 1936)
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Gollancz, 1952)
- Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (Hurst, Robinson, 1820)
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Harper and Brothers, 1851)
- A. Merritt, The Dwellers in the Mirage (Liveright , 1932)
- A. Merritt, The Ship of Ishtar (Putnam , 1926)
- Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer (Herbert Jenkins, 1965)
- C. L. Moore, Jirel of Joiry (Paperback Library, 1969)
- C. L. Moore, Northwest Smith (Ace, 1982)
- William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain (Kelmscott Press, 1891)
- Joseph O'Neill, Land Under England (Gollancz , 1935)
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Harper & Bros., 1838)
- Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark (Ballantine, 1979)
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic (Colin Smythe, 1986)
- Fletcher Pratt, The Well of the Unicorn (Sloane , 1948)
- Seabury Quinn, Roads (Arkham House, 1948)
- Maurice Richardson, The Exploits of Engelbrecht (Phoenix House, 1950)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- William Sloane, To Walk the Night (Farrar and Rinehart, 1937)
- Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique (Ballantine, 1970)
- Thorne Smith, The Night Life of the Gods (Doubleday Doran, 1931)
- Thorne Smith, Turnabout (Doubleday Doran, 1931)
- Francis Stevens, The Citadel of Fear (Paperback Library, 1970)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Frank S. Stuart, Caravan for China (Paul, 1939)
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Benjamin Motte, 1726)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Henry Treece, The Golden Strangers (Bodley Head, 1956)
- Henry Treece, The Great Captains (Bodley Head, 1956)
- A. E. van Vogt, The Book of Ptath (Fantasy Press, 1947)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (T. Lownds, 1764)
- T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose (Putnam, 1946)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891)
- Charles Williams, War in Heaven (Gollancz, 1930)
- Jack Williamson, Darker Than You Think (Fantasy Press, 1948)
- Colin Wilson, The Philosopher's Stone (Arthur Barker , 1969)
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