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Wiliam Morris
Aho, Gary I. William Morris: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.
Clutton-Briock, Arthur. William Morris: His Work and Influence. London, Williams, 1914.
Kirchhoff, Fredrick K. William Morris. Boston: Twayne, 1979.
Mathews, Richard. Worlds beyond the World: The Fantastic Vision of William Morris. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1978.
Oberg, Charlotte. A Pagan Prophet: William Morris. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978.
Silver, Carole. The Romance of William Morris. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1982.
Thompson, Paul. The Work of William Morris. London: Heinemann, 1967; revised London: Quartet, 1977.
James Morrow
“The Divinely Human Comedy of James Morrow.” Special issue. Paradoxa 5, no.
12 (1999).
John Myers Myers
Lerner, Fred, ed. A Silverlock Companion. Center Harbor, N.H.: Niekas, 1988.
Robert Nathan
Bromfield, Louis. The Work of Robert Nathan. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs Merrill, 1927.
Sandelin, Clarence. Robert Nathan. Boston: Twayne, 1969.
E. Nesbit
Bell, Anthea. E. Nesbit. London: Bodley Head, 1960.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1859–1924. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1987.
Streatfeild, Noel. Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and Her Children’s Books.
London: Benn, 1958.
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Andre Norton
Stephensen-Payne, Philip. Andre Norton. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 41. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1991.
Flann O’Brien
Clissman, Ann. Flann O’Brien: A Critical Introduction. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1975.
Mervyn Peake
Batchelor, John. Mervyn Peake: A Biographical and Critical Exploration. London: Duckworth, 1974.
Gardiner-Scott, Tanya J. Mervyn Peake: The Evolution of a Dark Romantic. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.
Watney, John. Mervyn Peake. London: Michael Joseph, 1976.
Winnington, G. Peter. Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake. London: Peter Owen, 2000.
Charles Perrault
Barchilon, Jacques, and Peter Flinders. Charles Perrault. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
Eden Phillpotts
Girvan, Waveney. Eden Phillpotts: An Assessment and a Tribute. London: Hutchinson, 1953.
John Cowper Powys
Brebner, John A. The Demon Within: A Study of John Cowper Powys’s Novels.
London: Macdonald, 1973.
Cavaliero, Glen. John Cowper Powys, Novelist. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
Collins, H. P. John Cowper Powys: Old Earth-Man. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1966.
Fawkner, H. W. The Ecstatic World of John Cowper Powys. Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.
Knight, G. Wilson. The Saturnian Quest: A Chart of the Prose Works of John Cowper Powys. London: Methuen, 1964.
Krisdottir, Morine. John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1980.
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T. F. Powys
Buning, Marcus. T. F. Powys: A Modern Allegorist. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986.
Coombes, Henry. T. F. Powys. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960.
Hunter, William. The Novels and Stories of T. F. Powys. Cambridge, U.K.: Frazer, 1930.
Mitchell, J. Lawrence. T. F. Powys. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1982.
Terry Pratchett
Butler, Andrew M. The Pocket Essential Terry Pratchett. Harpenden, U.K.: Pocket Essentials, 2001.
Butler, Andrew M., Edward James, and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Reading, U.K.: Science Fiction Foundation, 2000.
Philip Pullman
Squires, Claire. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy. New York: Continuum, 2003.
Howard Pyle
Nebitt, Elizabeth. Howard Pyle. New York: Walck, 1968.
Pitz, Henry Clarence. A Plethora of Talent: The Creative Life of Howard Pyle.
New York: Potter, 1975.
François Rabelais
Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Tr. Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Anne Rice
Ramsland, Katherine. The Vampire Companion. New York: Ballantine, 1993.
———. The Witches’ Companion. New York: Ballantine, 1994.
Keith Roberts
Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Keith Roberts. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 45. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1993.
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J. K. Rowling
Blake, Andrew. The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter: Kid-Lit in a Globalized World. London: Verso, 2002.
Colbert, David. The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter. London: Penguin, 2002.
Heilman, Elizabeth E., ed. Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Killinger, John. God, the Devil and Harry Potter. New York: St. Martin’s, 2003.
Kroznek, Allan Zola, and Elizabeth Zola. The Sorcerer’s Companion. New York: Broadway Books, 2001.
Schafer, Elizabeth D. Exploring Harry Potter. London: Ebury, 2000.
Smith, Sean. J. K. Rowling: A Biography, London: Michael O’Mara, 2001.
Whited, Lana A., ed. The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
Salman Rushdie
Brennan, Timothy. Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation.
London, Macmillan, 1989.
Harrison, James. Salman Rushdie. New York: Twayne, 1991.
William Shakespeare
Darling, Benjamin. Shakespeare on Fairies and Magic. New York: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Alexander, Edward. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Buchen, Irving H. Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Eternal Past. New York: New York University Press, 1968.
Friedman, Lawrence S. Understanding Isaac Bashevis Singer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
Clark Ashton Smith
Behrends, Steve. Clark Ashton Smith. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1990.
Sidney-Fryer, Donald. Clark Ashton Smith: The Sorcerer Departs. West Hills, Calif.: Tsathoggua, 1997.
———. Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography. West Kingston, R.I.: Donald Grant, 1978.
———. The Last of the Great Romantic Poets. Albuquerque, N. M.: Silver Scarab, 1973.
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James Stephens
Martin, Augustine. James Stephens: A Critical Study. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1977.
McFate, Patricia. The Writings of James Stephens: Variations on a Theme of Love.
New York: St. Martin’s, 1979.
Pyle, Hilary. James Stephens: His Work and an Account of His Life. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jones, William B., Jr. Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003.
Theodore Sturgeon
Stephensen-Payne, Philip, and Gordon Benson Jr. Theodore Sturgeon. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 32. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1989.
Thomas Burnett Swann
Collins, Robert A. Thomas Burnett Swann: A Brief Critical Biography and Annotated Bibliography. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University College of Humanities, 1979.
James Thurber
Holmes, Charles S. The Clocks of Columbus: The Literary Career of James Thurber. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Long, Robert Emmet. James Thurber. New York: Ungar, 1988.
Morberger, Robert E. James Thurber. Boston: Twayne, 1964.
J. R. R.
Tolkien
Bassham, Gregory, and Eric Bronson, eds. The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All. Chicago: Open Court, 2003.
Bates, Brian. The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J. R. R. Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2002.
Carpenter, Humphrey. Tolkien: A Biography. London: Allen and Unwin, 1977.
Challis, Erica, ed. The People’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Cold Spring, 2003.
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Chance, Jane, ed. Tolkien the Medievalist. New York: Routledge, 2003.
———, ed. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
———. Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, revised 2001. [Original edition London: Macmillan, 1979, as by Jane C. Nitzsche.]
Clark, George, and Daniel Timmons, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-Earth. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000.
Crabbe, Katharyn F. J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Ungar, 1981; revised 1988.
Day, David. Tolkien’s Ring. London: HarperCollins, 1994.
———. The World of Tolkien: Mythological Sources of The Lord of the Rings. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003.
Ellwood, Robert. Frodo’s Quest: Living the Myth in The Lord of the Rings.
Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 2002.
Evans, Robley. J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Warner, 1972.
Flieger, Verlyn. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1983; revised Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2002.
Flieger, Verlyn, and Carl F. Hofstedder, eds. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle Earth. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000.
Foster, Robert. The Complete Guide to Middle-earth. New York: Ballantine, 1978
[revision of Mirage Press edition, 1971].
Garth, John. Tolkien in the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollins, 2003.
Giddings, Robert, ed. Tolkien: This Far Land. London: Vision, 1983.
Haber, Karen, ed. Meditations on Middle-Earth. New York: St. Martin’s, 2001.
Harvey, David. The Song of Middle-Earth: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Themes, Symbols, and Myths. London: Allen and Unwin, 1985.
Helms, Randel. Tolkien and the Silmarils. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981.
———. Tolkien’s World. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Isaacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo, eds. Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1981.
———, eds. Tolkien and the Critics. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
Johnson, Judith A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.
Jones, Leslie Ellen, Myth & Middle-earth. New York: Cold Spring, 2002.
Kocher, Paul H. Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
Lobdell, Jared. England and Always: Tolkien’s World of the Rings. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1981.
———, ed. A Tolkien Compass. Chicago: Open Court, 1975.
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Mathews, Richard. Lightning from a Clear Sky: J. R. R. Tolkien. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1978.
Nitzche, Jane C. Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England. London: Macmillan, 1979. [Revised edition Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001, as by Jane Chance.]
Noel, Ruth S. The Mythology of Middle-Earth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.
O’Neill, Timothy, R. The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien and the Archetypes of Middle-earth. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Petty, Anne C. Tolkien in the Land of Heroes. New York: Cold Spring, 2003.
Purtill, Richard L. J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
Rogers, Deborah, and Ivor Rogers. J. R. R. Tolkien. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A Critical Assessment. London: Macmillan, 1992; revised and expanded as Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon: Revised Edition, 2004.
Shippey, T. A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. London: HarperCollins, 2000.
———. The Road to Middle-Earth. London: Allen and Unwin, 1982; revised London: Grafton, 1992; further revised as The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R.
Tolkien Created a New Mythology. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Smith, Mark Eddy. Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of The Lord of the Rings. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2002.
Stanton, Michael N. Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards: Exploring the Wonders and Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” New York: Palgrave, 2001; expanded edition 2002.
Zimbardo, Rose A., and Neil D. Isaacs, eds. Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Jack Vance
Cunningham, A. E., ed. Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography.
Boston Spa, Yorkshire, U.K.: British Library, 2000.
Mead, David G. An Encyclopedia of Jack Vance, 20th-Century Science Fiction Writer. 3 vols. Studies in American Literature, no. 50. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002.
Rawlins, Jack. Demon Prince: The Dissonant Worlds of Jack Vance. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1986.
Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Jack Vance. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 28. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1988.
Tiedman, Richard. Jack Vance: Science Fiction Stylist. Wabash, Ind.: Coulson, 1965.
Underwood, Tim, and Chuck Miller, eds. Jack Vance. New York: Taplinger, 1980.
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Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Little, Denise, ed. Realms of Dragons: The Universes of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. New York: HarperPrism, 1999.
T. H. White
Crane, John K. T. H. White. Boston: Twayne, 1974.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. T. H. White: A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
Charles Williams
Cavaliero, Glen. Charles Williams: Poet of Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1983.
Hadfield, Alice Mary. Charles Williams: An Exploration of His Life and Work. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Howard, Thomas T. The Novels of Charles Williams. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Shideler, Mary McDermott. The Theology of Romantic Love: A Study in the Writings of Charles Williams. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1962.
Sibley, Agnes. Charles Williams. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
Soencer, Kathleen. Charles Williams. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.
Gene Wolfe
Andre-Driussi, Michael. Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle. San Francisco: Sirius, 1994.
Gordon, Joan. Gene Wolfe. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.
Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Gene Wolfe. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 19. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1991
Wright, Peter. Attending Dedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Roger Zelazny
Krulik, Theodore. Roger Zelazny. New York: Ungar, 1986.
Lindskold, Jane. Roger Zelazny. New York: Twayne, 1993.
Stephensen-Payne, Phil, and Gordon Benson Jr. Roger Zelazny. Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, vol. 38. Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K.: Galactic Central, 1991.
Yoke, Carl B. Roger Zelazny. West Linn, Ore.: Starmont House, 1979.
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WRITING GUIDES AND MANUALS
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Stableford, Brian. Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction. London: Teach Yourself Books, 1997.
Tuttle, Lisa. Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction. London: A&C Black, 2001.
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Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice by the Master Therion. Paris: Lecram, 1929.
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Fortune, Dion. Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science. London: Rider, 1931.
———. The Training and Work of an Initiate. London: Rider, 1930.
Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1890; expanded 3rd edition 12 vols. London: Macmillan, 1911–15.
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Gardner, Gerald B. The Meaning of Witchcraft. London: Aquarian, 1959.
———. Witchcraft Today. London: Rider, 1954.
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———. Magical Revival. London: Muller, 1972.
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King, Francis. Ritual Magic in England: 1887 to the Present Day. London: Spear-man, 1970.
Leland, Charles Godfrey. Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches. London: David Nutt, 1899.
———. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.
Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme et rituel de la haute magie. Paris: Germer Ballière, 1856.