| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Just Delicious |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
fantasy (1), folklore (1), horror (1), cannibalism (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1991-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Known But to God and Wilbur Hines |
James Morrow |
|
|
first person point of view (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), ghost (1), Warfare (1), fantasy (1), World War I (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Like Cats' Eyes |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
psychopomps (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), folklore (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mama Gone |
Jane Yolen |
|
|
love (1), family (1), vampire (1), strong female character (1), juvenile protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Maybe You Will Remember |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
mystery (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), disappearance (1), puzzle (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No, Thanks |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), folklore (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sam's New Pet |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
fantasy (1), urban legend (1), mexico (1), Mexican Hairless dog (1), rat (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Strangers |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
ghosts (1), folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Such Things Happen |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), witch (1), curse (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
T-H-U-P-P-P-P-P-P-P! |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), joke (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Appointment |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), fate (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Black Dog |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), supernatural (1), dog (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bus Stop |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), vanishing hitchhiker (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dead Hand |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), swamp (1), evil creatures (1), evil creature (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dream |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), dreams (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1991-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Giving Mouth |
Ian R. MacLeod |
|
|
steampunk (1), ecology (1), fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), feudalism (1), plague (1), good vs evil (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hog |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), reincarnation (1), folklore (1), hog (1)
|
| 1991-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Long-Awaited Appearance of the Real Black Box |
Rastislav Durman |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), military (1), technology (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Red Spot |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
horror (2), folklore (1), fantasy (1), spiders (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1991-08-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Trouble |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), poltergeist (1)
|
| 1991-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Valkyrie |
Jack McDevitt |
|
|
first person point of view (1), valkyries (1), Vietnam War (1), only Earth (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1990-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Stalin's Teardrops |
Ian Watson |
|
|
fantasy (1), cartography (1), Stalin era Soviet Union (1), growing younger (1), Faberge eggs (1)
|
| 1990-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Swan's Lake |
Susan Shwartz |
|
|
kingdom by the sea (1), sorcery (1), dead prince (1), royal tutor (1), making amends (1), swans (1), graveyard (1), love (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1989-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rocky Python Christmas Video Show |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
epistolary (1), tv show transcript (1), quiz show (1), satire (1), post-apocalyptic (1), Warfare (1), surrealism (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
After the Last Elf is Dead |
Harry Turtledove |
|
|
fantasy (1), elfs (1), ogres (1), sword and sorcery (1), loyalty (1), idealism (1), conquest (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death Dances |
Tanith Lee |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1), changing roles (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages |
Dean R. Koontz |
|
|
fantasy (1), toys (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Princess |
Morgan Llywelyn |
|
|
fantasy (1), dwarves (1), magic (1), tavern owner (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Domino Master |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
fantasy (1), magic (1), contemporary (1), first person (1)
|
| 1988-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady |
Brian Stableford |
|
|
fantasy (1), vampire (1), alternate history (1), bubonic plague (1)
|
| 1988-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Promise of Warmth |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Latin America (1), horror (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Charis |
Ellen Kushner |
|
|
romance (1), tricksters (1), humans (1), politics (1), elven royalty (1), night clubs (1), borderlands (1), elves (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), teenage protagonist (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1986-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hatrack River |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
juvenile protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), second sight (1), childbirth (1), flood (1), strong female character (1), new england (1), fantasy (1), 1800s (1)
|
| 1986-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Magician: Master |
Raymond E. Feist |
|
|
fantasy (1), aliens (1), wormholes (1), interplanetary war (1), magic (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Our Resident Djinn |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
|
|
satire (1), God is dead (1), tongue in cheek (1), fantasy (1), heaven (1), Satan (1), Saint Peter (1), Hell (1), Nature (1), Chance (1), Entropy (1), real estate (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Arcevoalo |
Lucius Shepard |
|
|
Brazil (1), fantasy (1), postapocalyptic (1), Nature vs Civilization (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boy Who Plaited Manes |
Nancy Springer |
|
|
horse groom (1), marital infidelity (1), horse (1), medieval (1), fantasy (1), mystical ability (1)
|
| 1984-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
Canadian dream |
Jean-Pierre April |
|
|
fantasy (1), slipstream (1), Canada (1), Cameroon (1), alternate history (1)
|
| 1984-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cube Root |
Jack C. Haldeman, II |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), fads (1), fantasy (1), tongue in cheek (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lilies |
Alison Prince |
|
|
first person point of view (1), flowers (1), burial (1), female point of view (1), child point of view (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1984-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Thorn |
Robert Holdstock |
|
|
Britain (1), fantasy (1), sculptor (1), stonemason (1), church building (1), Celtic paganism (1), Green man (1)
|
| 1983-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Behind the Attic Wall |
Sylvia Cassedy |
|
|
family life (1), ghosts (1), orphans (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1983-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Legion |
William Peter Blatty |
|
|
devil (1), horror (1), possession (1), theological problem of evil (1), Lucifer (1), murder mystery (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Jewish protagonist (1), police detective (1), medical psychology (1), serial killer (1), Catholicism (1), senile dementia (1), hospital (1)
|
| 1982-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
For a Daughter |
F. M. Busby |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), Amazon warrior society (1), mating by combat (1), barbarian societies (1), misogyny (1), betrayal (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Leechcraft |
Susan C. Petrey |
|
|
contemporary (1), Caucasian War (1), time travel (1), fantasy (1), vampires (1)
|
| 1982-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Offer of Immortality |
Robertson Davies |
|
|
academia (1), first person (1), fantasy (1), immortality (1)
|
| 1981-10-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pyotr's Story |
Spider Robinson |
|
|
fantasy (1), vampires (1), guitar (1), hangovers (1)
|
| 1980-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Far Removed from the Scene of the Crime |
Simon Hawke |
|
|
fantasy (1), torture (1), apartheid (1), South Africa (1), SWAPO (1), Namibia (1), Robben Island (1), alternate reality (1), ironic justice (1)
|
| 1980-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Outside |
David Bischoff |
|
|
alternate reality (1), fantasy (1), writer (1), solitude (1)
|
| 1980-05-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 23rd Series |
Edward L. Ferman |
|
|
1980 Best Anthology (1), fantasy (1), SF (1), criticism (1), science essay (1), humor (1)
|
| 1980-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Shadowed Waters |
C. A. Cador |
|
|
fantasy (1), sacrifice (1), retributive justice (1), transgression (1), obsessive infatuation (1), Silkies (1), island (1), Old Celtic society (1), the sea (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Agbewe's Sword |
Charles R. Saunders |
|
|
fantasy (1), Ahosi (1), African (1), female warrior (1), female protagonist (1), magic sword (1), Warfare (1), storm calling (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Amazons! |
Jessica Amanda Salmonson |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), warriors (1), magic (1), sword and sorcery (1), original anthology (1)
|
| 1979-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fleas |
Dean Ing |
|
|
contemporary (1), vampire (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Morrien's Bitch |
Janet Fox |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), Warfare (1), subterranean (1), vengeance (1), romance (1), swords, no sorcery (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sorrows of Witches |
Margaret St. Clair |
|
|
fantasy (1), necromancy (1), queen (1), female protagonist (1), love (1), jealousy (1), sacrifice (1)
|
| 1978-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Brother Hart |
Jane Yolen |
|
|
huntsman in the woods (1), magic (1), fantasy (1), retold fairy tales (1)
|
| 1978-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Project Hi-Rise |
Robert F. Young |
|
|
bible (1), labor relations (1), tongue in cheek (1), fantasy (1), first person (1)
|
| 1977-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Prismatica |
Samuel R. Delany |
|
|
fantasy (1), sea voyage (1), treasure (1), princess (1)
|
| 1977-05-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Kugelmass Episode |
Woody Allen |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), Emma Bovary (1), magic (1), extramarital affairs (1), humor (1), be careful what you wish for (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
United Imp |
L. Sprague de Camp |
|
|
first person point of view (1), business loan (1), ironmongery (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), unionization (1), Atlanta, Georgia (1), The Faerie Queene (1), gnomes (1)
|
| 1976-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pattern |
Ramsey Campbell |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), magical realism (1)
|
| 1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Sign of the Unicorn |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
unreliable narrator (1), palace intrigue (1), sibling rivalry (1), swordplay (1), parallel worlds (1), first person point of view (1), medieval society (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), classical mythology (1)
|
| 1974-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), lycanthrope (1), redemption (1), metaphysics (1), Dr. Frankenstein (1), search for the soul (1), quest (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? |
Henry Dumas |
|
|
fantasy (1), jazz (1)
|
| 1973-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bleeding Stones |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
gargoyles (1), New York City (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), horror (1)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Neon |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
angels (1), love (1), fantasy (1), near future (1)
|
| 1973-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Deathbird |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), Garden of Eden (1), End of Days (1), the serpent (1), Adam (1), final examination (1), Pain (1), Adam and Eve (1)
|
| 1973-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Emperor's Fan |
L. Sprague de Camp |
|
|
fantasy (1), magic (1), Oriental emperor (1)
|
| 1973-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), New York City (1), 1970s (1), horror (1)
|
| 1973-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Thiotimoline to the Stars |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), time travel (1), fantasy (1), SF (1), self-reference (1), chemistry (1), time distortion (1)
|
| 1972-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Basilisk |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), Vietnam War (1), POWs (1), Veteran's homecoming (1), retribution (1)
|
| 1972-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Corpse |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), automobiles (1), New York City (1), religion (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
On the Downhill Side |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
new orleans (1), first person (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), love (1), afterlife (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Guns of Avalon |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
unreliable narrator (1), palace intrigue (1), sibling rivalry (1), swordplay (1), parallel worlds (1), first person point of view (1), medieval society (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), classical mythology (1)
|
| 1970-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Day We Embarked for Cythera |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
fantasy (1), automobiles (1), hallucinatory (1), picnic (1), first person point of view (1), parallel stories (1)
|
| 1969-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bored of the Rings |
Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney |
|
|
Tolkien (1), humor (1), parody (1), fantasy (1), pastiche (1)
|
| 1969-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Prey |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
female main character (1), possession (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), Zuni fetish doll (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1969-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rock God |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), Stonehenge (1), ancient gods (1), contemporary (1), corruption (1), New York City (1)
|
| 1969-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Place with No Name |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
contemporary (1), criminal (1), New York City (1), fantasy (1), prometheus (1), manslaughter (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dragon of Pendor |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
dragons (1), sword and sorcery (1), young magician (1), supernatural pursuer (1), magical combat (1), fantasy (1), magical power of names (1)
|
| 1968-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ernest and the Machine God |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), North Carolina (1), jealous god (1)
|
| 1968-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
O Ye of Little Faith |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
loss of faith (1), fortune-telling (1), love (1), mexico (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
Los Angeles (1), Vietnam veteran (1), fantasy (1), hippies (1), drugs (1)
|
| 1968-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Kings of the Sea |
Sterling E. Lanier |
|
|
supernatural family legacy (1), pact with demigods (1), mystic artifacts (1), children of Jormungand (1), Baron (1), sea creature (1), English army officer (1), 1938 (1), sweden (1), epistolary (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Auto-da-Fé |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
blood sport (1), fantasy (1), automobiles (1), stylized (1)
|
| 1967-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Corona |
Samuel R. Delany |
|
|
fantasy (1), telepathy (1), music (1)
|
| 1967-01-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
Hene fayer |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
|
|
fantasy (1), Yiddish (1), translation (1), first person (1), Jewish (1), Poland (1), pre-WWII (1), Shtetl (1), pyrokinesis (1)
|
| 1967-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
object possession (1), moll (1), betrayal (1), Las Vegas (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1966-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Delusion for a Dragon Slayer |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
contemporary (1), fantasy (1), mythic heroes (1)
|
| 1966-09-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
Der toyter klezmer |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
|
|
fantasy (1), supernatural (1), Dybbuk (1), Jewish (1), Shtetl (1), possession (1), Poland (1), Pre WWII (1), Yiddish (1), translation (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Inner Room |
Robert Aickman |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), uncanny (1), eerie (1)
|
| 1964-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Paingod |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), nonhuman point of view (1), the problem of suffering (1)
|
| 1964-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Terminal Beach |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
science fiction (1), symbolism (1), only Earth (1), hallucinogenic (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), decay (1), nuclear test (1), fantasy (1), Eniwetok (1), Pacific Ocean (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Substance of Martyrs |
William Sambrot |
|
|
miracles (1), redemption (1), holocaust (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), first person (1)
|
| 1962-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hey, Look at Me! |
Jack Finney |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), Mill Valley California (1), writer (1), critic (1), fantasy (1), ghost (1)
|
| 1960-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
From Shadowed Places |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
fantasy (1), juju (1), curse (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), africa (1), USA (1), Ngombo (witch doctor) (1)
|
| 1960-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Old Hundredth |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
fantasy (1), enhanced animals (1), distant future (1), Earth (1), no humans (1), science fiction (1), music (1)
|
| 1960-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Face of Helene Bournouw |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
contemporary (1), New York City (1), female protagonist (1), demonic handiwork (1), beauty (1), destructive relationships (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), into-tv (1), The Hunger (1)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Medicine for Melancholy |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
romance (1), crowdsourcing (1), 18th century (1), illness (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
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