Last updated 8/9/08
BABBITT, NATALIE (Also writes Horror.)
Devil's Other Storybook, The (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986, Bantam Skylark, 1987.)
Not seen. Collection of stories.
Devil's Storybook, The (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1974, Bantam Skylark, 1977.)
Collection of related stories for young readers about an easily defeated devil.
Eyes of the Amaryllis, The (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1977, Bantam Skylark, 1979.)
A gentle ghost story for younger readers. A young girl believes the stories that her grandfather, lost at sea years earlier, survives after a fashion as guardian of a sunken treasure.
Search for Delicious, The (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1969, Avon Camelot, 1974.)
A kingdom torn by disagreement over which food should be used to illustrate the concept, "delicious", relies on a young boy's visit to an a centuries old creature.
Tuck Everlasting (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1975, Bantam Skylark, 1976.)
A family settles beside a magical spring that holds death at bay. For younger readers.
BACCALARIO, PIERDOMENICO
House of Mirrors (Scholastic, 2007.)
A Ulysses Moore novel.
Young adult story of a boy who can travel in time.
BACH, RICHARD
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (MacMillan, 1970, Turnstone, 1972, Avon, 1973.)
Trivial but at one time enormously popular illustrated story about intelligent seagulls.
BACON, MARTHA
Moth Manor: A Gothic Tale. (Little, Brown, 1978.)
Not seen. A dollhouse with living residents.
Third Road, The (Little, Brown, 1971.)
Three children travel back to 17th Century Spain in search of Aztec gold.
BACON-SMITH, CAMILLE
Daemon Eyes (DAW, 2007.)
Omnibus of Eye of the Daemon and Eyes of the Empress, both revised.
Eye of the Daemon (DAW, 1996.)
Eye #1.
Good and bad demons are both secretly living among us, and their constant warfare is about to spill over with disastrous consequences. The story is told through the perspective of a handful of good demons who pose as private detectives.
Eyes of the Empress (DAW, 1998.)
Eye #2.
A murder and theft in a museum leads a man whose heritage is half demonic into a complex series of investigations leading him halfway across the world. His demonic half tends to assert itself when he gets into danger.
BACUS, KATHLEEN
Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun (Love Spell, 2006.)
Humorous romance involving ghosts.
BADE, TOM (See collaboration with Robin Stevenson.)
BAILEY, GERALD EARL
Sword of Poyana (Berkley, 1979.)
Saga of Thorgrim #2.
An adventurer takes ship and heads out to the very rim of the civilized regions in this story of barbarian warfare in the dawn age of the world.
Sword of the Nurlingas (Berkley, 1979.)
Saga of Thorgrim #1.
A pseudo- Norse derived fantasy saga about a hero who seeks a beautiful princess with the assistance of a magical sword. He is opposed by the usual array of bad guys.
BAILEY, LEN
Clabbernappers (Starscape, 2005.)
Danny Ray #1.
Children's fantasy about a kidnapped queen in a magical land.
Fantasms (Starscape, 2007.)
Danny Ray #2.
A rescue mission to save the king’s daughter from some comical monsters.
BAILEY, LYNN
Flowers by Moonlight (Jove, 1999.)
Fairy #1.
A fairy finds a wounded knight in the forest, a man rendered invisible, and falls in love with him in this magical historical romance.
Kissed by Starlight (Jove, 1999.)
Fairy #2.
A woman’s tears bring an enchanted statue back to life. He then must use his fairy powers to help her ailing sister recover her health. A romance novel.
Magic by Daylight (Jove, 1999.)
A woman opens her home to a scholar to whom she is romantically attracted, but their association ends up with her visiting the land of the fairies. A romance novel.
Splendid You (Jove, 2000.)
A woman inadvertently wakens the spirit of an ancient Egyptian sorceress who helps her with both professional and romantic pursuits.
BAILEY, ROBIN W.
Bloodsongs (Tor, 1986.)
Frost #3.
An ex-witch as well as an ex-warrior, Frost comes out of retirement when her family is slaughtered. She discovers that her supernatural powers have suddenly been renewed just in time for a fresh round of battles against evil magic.
Brothers of the Dragon (New English Library, 1992, Roc, 1994.)
Dragon #1.
Two brothers are transported into a violent fantasy world in which the dragons are on the side of good and unicorns are creatures of evil. Immediately upon arriving, they inadvertently discover a method of killing one of the unicorns, which establishes them as heroes in the eyes of the locals, although they are actually reluctant to get involved.
Enchanter (Avon, 1989.)
This is based on the world of the Infocom computer game of the same name. Demonic doom endangers the world, and the guild of wizards is helpless to stop it. But a young man untrained in magical powers may be able to turn the tide because of his fresh approach to the subject.
Flames of the Dragon (Roc, 1994. New English Library, 1993 as Straight on Till Mourning.)
Dragon #2.
In a world where unicorns are hated and feared as evil monsters, two brothers from our world lead forces against an evil sorceress and an army of deadly assassins. This time they find a way to cross back to our world, but it proves less of a safe haven than they bargained for.
Frost (Pocket, 1983, Allen & Unwin, 1984, Tor, 1987.)
Frost #1.
Frost is a warrior woman who loses her magical powers and is entrusted by an angel with a valuable book that will allow her to enlist an army of sorcerers for a war against demonic forces. All she has to do is survive long enough to deliver it.
Lake of Fire, The (Bantam, 1989.)
Volume 4 of the multi-author Dungeon series.
A series of adventures clearly based on the concept of the Dungeons and Dragons game. Several people caught in the game must escape from a dungeon level that resembles Dante's Inferno before proceeding to the next adventure.
Lost City of Zork, The (Avon, 1991.)
Based on the Infocom computer text game of the same name. An adventurer escapes slavery and organizes the rescue of the imprisoned league of wizards in order to overthrow and evil king. Humorous adventure poking mild fun at the genre.
Nightwatch (TSR, 1990.)
A group of magicians is wiped out by a spell which turns their own magic back upon them. Then monsters begin to appear in the streets of Greyhawk at the beckoning of a secretive society. Can a lone member of the city's guard force find a way to expose the plotters and counter arcane lore which has already vanquished the guild of wizards?
Shadowdance (Borealis, 1996.)
A paralyzed man is given the magical ability to walk again so long as he dances every night. His dancing causes those around him to act out their fantasies in real life, some of them violent, and he must ultimately balance his own well being against the harm he is doing to others.
Skull Gate (Tor, 1985.)
Frost #2.
An army of demons has been checked but not destroyed. Now Frost, a defrocked witch, must travel to the very gates of Hell to rescue a kidnapped princess and turn the tide of battle against the forces of evil..
Straight on Till Mourning. (See Flames of the Dragon.)
Swords Against the Shadowland (Borealis, 1998.)
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser #1.
Bailey has been picked to continue the series begun by the late Fritz Leiber, and this is the first of what may be several novels. The two thieves are hired to track down a magician who unleashed a curse that will eventually kill everyone who practices magic.
Talisman (Ibooks, 2004.)
Dragonkin #2.
Quest for magic books which could avoid a devastating war.
Triumph of the Dragon (Roc, 1995.)
Dragon #3.
Two brothers heralded as champions are chosen to participate in the final battle to determine the fate of a mystical realm of unicorns and dragons, but they are separated at a crucial moment. They wander separately while an evil sorceress plots to seduce them individually so that at least one will change sides.
Undersky (Ibooks, 2005.)
Dragonkin #3.
Wyvernwood (Ibooks, 2004.)
Dragonkin #1.
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BAIN, F.W.
Ashes of a God (Knickerbocker, 1911.)
An elaborate story of mythology based on the author's experience in India.
Digit of the Moon, A (Knickerbocker, 1901.)
Further Indian mythological exploits.
Archons of the Stars, The (Aspect, 2005.)
Dragon Throne #3.
Two shapeshifters battle for supremacy as Armageddon threatens their world.
Empire of the Stars, The (Aspect, 2004.)
Dragon Throne #2.
More political intrigue on planets where magic works.
Stone of the Stars, The (Aspect, 2004.)
Dragon Throne #1.
Four strangers are entrusted with magical scrolls that hold the key to defeating an evil king and his army.
Rise of the Phoenix, The (Brighid's Fire, 2002.)
In a world where magic works, a woman uses her talents to rescue her brother from a sinister court conspiracy.
BAKER, FRANK (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Miss Hargreaves (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1940, Coward McCann, 1941.)
Not seen. An imaginary poet comes to life.
Mr. Allenby Loses the Way (Coward McCann, 1945.)
Marginal story of a series of wishes that come true, perhaps by magical intervention.
Sweet Charity (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942, Coward McCann, 1943.)
Not seen. A man changes identities with an angel.
BAKER, JEANETTE
Irish Lady (Pocket, 1998.)
A lawyer finds romance while helping a rebel avoid a prison sentence, assisted by a ghost.
Nell (Sonnet, 1999.)
Time travel romance in which a woman is drawn back through time by the spirit of her ancestor and finds love in the 16th Century.
Anvil of the World, The (Tor, 2003.)
Magic #1.
A retired assassin agrees to accompany a caravan across a wasteland and finds the job more dangerous than his former profession.
House of the Stag, The (Tor, 2008.)
Magic #2.
A half human hero arises to battle an invading army.
City of Towers, The (Wizards of the Coast, 2005.)
Dreaming Dark #1.
Three weary soldiers attempt to make a new life after a magical war.
Gates of Night, The (Wizards of the Coast, 2006.)
An Eberron novel.
A group of warriors discovers a plot to overrun the world with monsters.
Shattered Land, The (Wizards of the Coast, 2006.)
Dreaming Dark #2.
Ex-soldiers rescue one of their fellows from a sorcerous menace.
BAKER, LAURA
Raven (St Martins, 2001.)
Romance novel with marginal supernatural content involving Anasazi spirits.
Stargazer (St Martins, 1998.)
An Indian shaman’s spirit travels through time to the present in order to save a contemporary sorcerer from losing his destiny.
BAKER, LINDA (See also collaboration which follows.)
Irda, The (TSR, 1996.)
A Dragonlance Lost Histories novel.
Before they were tricked and cursed, the Ogres were a beautiful people. Some of their number, the Irda, escaped the curse and set up their own society in a remote part of the world, where they hope to avoid attention from their jealous brethren.
BAKER, LINDA & BERBERICK, NANCY VARIAN
Tears of the Night Sky (TSR, 1998.)
A Dragonlance Chaos War novel.
A priestess who is experiencing doubts about her faith receives a magical stone. This object causes her to leave her usual haunts and pursue a series of adventures which will restore her belief in the gods she serves.
BAKER, NICHOLSON
Fermata, The (Random House, 1994.)
A man who can mentally stop time uses his ability to play practical jokes on people in this even less serious version of the concept from John D. MacDonald’s The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything.
BAKER, RICHARD (Also writes Science Fiction.)
City of Ravens, The (Wizards of the Coast, 2000.)
A Forgotten Realms Cities novel.
Life in a mystical city is based in large part on an elaborate game, and someone is using that game in an effort to seize power.
Condemnation (Wizards of the Coast, 2002.)
A Forgotten Realms novel.
Various forces contend for control of the mysterious Spider Queen.
Easy Betrayals (TSR, 1998.)
#8 in the multi-author Diamond Triangle saga.
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Falcon and the Wolf, The (TSR, 1996.)
Not seen.
Farthest Reach (Wizards of the Coast, 2005.)
Last Mythal #2.
Elves seek magical secrets that will restore their lost glory.
Forsaken House (TSR, 2001.)
A Forgotten Realms novel.
A feud among the elves turns violent.
Shadow Stone, The (TSR, 1998.)
A Forgotten Realms book.
Not seen.
BAKER, SCOTT (Also writes Horror and Science Fiction.)
Ancestral Hungers (Tor, 1995.)
A much revised version of Dhampire, which see.
Dhampire (Pocket, 1982.)
More horror than fantasy, this is the story of a descendant of Dracula who pretends ignorance of his own heritage until his new wife becomes the target of his blood seeking relatives. Despite the presence of vampires, the novel avoids the tropes of horror and is technically fantasy.
Drink the Fire from the Flames (Tor, 1987.)
Ashlu #2.
A king dies and his soul is transferred to a magical sword, which is then broken. According to ritual, the sword should be reforged, but the man chosen to perform this act has his own agenda, and plans to challenge the most powerful wizards in the land.
Firedance (Tor, 1986.)
Ashlu #1.
A dead woman is revived by magic to share a body with the spirit of a young girl who was murdered. In this world, magic can be acquired from the dead by the power of persuasion, but sometimes the dead strike a hard bargain.
Darkness That Comes Before, The (Simon & Schuster UK, 2004, Overlook, 2004.)
Prince of Nothing #1.
Various forces seek influence in a magical kingdom but unknown to them all, an ancient supernatural force is about to stir all their plans.
Thousandfold Thought, The (Overlook, 2005.)
Prince of Nothing #3.
A religious and political war reaches its completion.
Warrior-Prophet, The (Overlook, 2005.)
Prince of Nothing #2.
More political intrigue and nefarious sorcery.
Exiled from Camelot (Green Knight, 2001.)
When King Arthur's illegitimate son Loholt appears, the king is pleased to finally have an heir. But then Loholt is murdered and suspicion falls on Sir Kay, who is expelled from the Round Table. Kay gets involved with a sorceress in an attempt to clear his name.
BALDWIN, DAVID (See collaboration with Margaret Weis.)
BALIOL, ALEXANDER
Magefire, The (?, 1990.)
Amulets #1.
Not seen.
Tears of Ginara, The (?, 1992.)
Amulets #2.
Not seen.
BALL, MARGARET (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Changeweaver (Baen, 1993.)
Weaver #2.
Only women can use magic in the land of Gandhara, and their power is strictly controlled by the ruling council. One young woman possesses such powerful, undisciplined magic that she is banished from her homeland and sent as an envoy to the British in India. There she secures help from them against the Russians, in exchange for her assistance in investigating a land of real demons near the border with China.
Flameweaver (Baen, 1991.)
Weaver #1.
The magical kingdom of Gandhara is set in the mountains between an expansive Russia and the British Empire in India. When their magic proves ineffective against Russian guns, the ruling council sends a defrocked priestess into India to find more conventional weapons of defense.
Lost in Translation (Baen, 1995.)
A college student transfers to a new school in Europe, but winds up in another world where magic works, enrolled in a school that turns out wizards and sorcerers. Unbeknownst to her, the scholar patronizing her has made a pact with an evil creature, and needs her life to seal the bargain.
Mathemagics (Baen, 1996.)
A woman from a magical realm has found a refuge in our world until a sorcerer from that other existence finds a way to cross over in pursuit. The sorcerer gets involved with a comic book religious nut determined to clean up literature after discovering that only one of his magic spells works on Earth.
No Earthly Sunne (Baen, 1994.)
In the 16th Century, a skilled musician was kidnapped into the land of Faerie. Four centuries later, an unhappy computer programmer travels to England where the gates between the worlds are about to open again, and where she may find or lose herself forever.
Shadow Gate, The (Baen, 1991.)
An order of monks in another dimension has set out to destroy all of the elves, first depriving them of their magic, then of their lives. The latter seek help by contacting a psychic research center in our own world, whose staff decides to cross over and fight magic with science.
BALLANTINE, PHILIPPA
Chasing the Bard (Dragon Moon, ?)
A fairy is born in the human world.
BALLARD, J.G. (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Concrete Island (Jonathan Cape, 1974, Panther, 1976, Noonday, 1994.)
An allegorical piece about a man who lives on a traffic island and finds a way to survive despite the inhospitable environment. A satiric Robinson Crusoe story for the modern age.
Unlimited Dream Company, The (Jonathan Cape, 1979, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979, Granada, 1981, Washington Square Press, 1985.)
A charismatic figure crashes his plane near a small British town, and immediately alters reality for miles around. Tropical plants sprout despite the climate, the central character is able to alter his own body, and the local residents develop the ability to levitate.
Angel at Troublesome Creek, An (St. Martins, ? Berkley, ?)
Angel #1.
Not seen.
Angel to Die For, An (St. Martins, 2000, Berkley, 2001.)
Angel #2.
An angel is sent back to Earth to conduct a murder investigation.
Angel Whispered Danger, The (St Martins, 2003.)
Angel #4.
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Shadow of an Angel (St. Martins, 2002, Berkley, 2003.)
Angel #3.
An angel helps a mortal solve another murder.
BALLINGER, W.A.
Drums of the Dark Gods (Paperback Library, 1967.)
A group of voodoo practitioners are plotting to use magic to seize world power. Opposed to them are two adventurers who infiltrate the cult in order to undermine the efforts of its supernaturally endowed leader. Borders on horror.
BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK (Also writes Horror.)
Autobiography of Methuselah, The (B.W. Dodge, 1909.)
Satirical look at the events chronicled in the Bible and beyond.
Enchanted Typewriter, The (Harper, 1899, Irvington, 1977.)
Houseboat #3.
A typewriter allows communication with the afterlife in a series of linked stories.
Houseboat on the Styx, A (Harper, 1895, McIlvaine, 1896, AMS, 1979.)
Houseboat #1.
A satiric look at historical figures encountered on a magical houseboat.
Jack and the Check-Book (Harper, 1911.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mr. Munchausen, (Platt, 1901, Books for Libraries Press, ?)
Collection of stories about an unlike hero.
Olympian Nights (Harper, 1902, Greenhill, 1986.)
A series of humorous adventures of a modern man who encounters the Greek Gods on Mount Olympus.
Over the Plum Pudding (Harper, 1901.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Pursuit of the Houseboat, The (Harper, 1897, McIlvaine, 1897, AMS, 1979.)
Houseboat #2.
Not seen. More interactions among the ghosts of famous men.
Armies of Hanuman (Orbit, ?)
Ramayana #4.
The demons strike back in one more effort to rule the world.
Bridge of Rama (Gollancz, 2006.)
Ramayana #5.
An army is needed to rescue a kidnapped woman from the forces of sorcerous evil.
Demons of Chitrakut, The (Orbit, ?)
Ramayana #3.
Although the demons have been defeated, the protagonist faces a number of additional trials.
King of Ayodhya (Gollancz, 2006.)
Ramayana #6.
A king battles an army of inhumans to win his throne.
Prince of Ayodhya (Orbit, 2003, Warner, 2003.)
Ramayana #1.
Retelling of a famous Indian legend. A prince has a vision of an apocalypse in the near future and attempts to prepare his people to deal with it.
Siege of Mithila (Orbit, ?)
Ramayana #2.
The world is invaded by an army of demons.
BANKS, CAM
Sellsword, The (Wizards of the Coast, 2008.)
A Dragonlance novel.
Mercenaries get caught up in a local battle.
BANKS, IAIN M. (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Bridge, The (St Martins, 1986, MacMillan, 1986, Harper, 1990.)
A surrealistic fable about a man who is transported from the car wreck that should have killed him to a strange land where he confronts his own nature, an internal dream world while he lays in a coma on the brink of death.
BANKS, LYNNE REID
Adventures of King Midas, The (Morrow, 1992, Avon Camelot, 1993.)
A retelling of the fairy tale about a king cursed to change everything he touches into gold.
Fairy Rebel, The (Doubleday, 1985, Dent, 1985, Avon Camelot, 1989, Cornerstone, 1989.)
A young fairy disobeys her queen's rule not to use magic with humans and gets herself into great trouble. Amusing adventure for younger readers.
Farthest Away Mountain (Abelard Schumann, 1976, Doubleday, 1991, Avon Camelot, 1992.)
A young girl sets out on a perilous journey beset by magical monsters.
Indian in the Cupboard, The (Dent, 1980, Doubleday, 1989, Avon Camelot, 1991.)
Indian #1.
A boy discovers that he can bring his miniature figures to life. Made into a motion picture.
Magic Hare, The (Morrow, 1993, Avon Camelot, 1994.)
Collection of linked stories.
Mystery of the Cupboard (Morrow, 1993, Avon Camelot, 1996.)
Indian #4.
A young boy travels back magically to World War II to discover the secret of a magical cupboard that transports souls frrom the past into toys in his cupboard.
Return of the Indian, The (Doubleday, 1986, Dent, 1986, Avon Camelot, 1987.)
Indian #2.
The magical Indian is wounded in the French & Indian War when his young friend reanimates him in the magical cupboard.
Secret of the Indian, The (Doubleday, 1989, Collins, 1989, Avon Camelot, 1990.)
Indian #3.
A young boy and his animated toys have brought a cyclone through time to the present.
BANKS, RAYMOND E. (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Savage Princess, The (Hustler, 1980, bound with Penetrators of Time by Merlin Kaye.)
Pornography about barbarian warriors and women trying, unsuccessfully and not even particularly earnestly, to protect their virtue.
Arabic Folk Tales (Massada, 1969.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BARBEAU. MARIUS
Magic Tree and Other Tales, The (Oxford University Press, 1958, Scholastic, 1969, retold by Michael Hornyansky.)
Collection of unrelated stories for younger readers.
BARBOUR, ANNE
Lady Hilary’s Halloween (Signet, 1998.)
Historical romance about a woman who witnesses a genuine psychic event and is thrown into the arms of a local landowner who may be able to explain its origin.
Step in Time (Signet, 1996.)
Another story of a contemporary woman who is mysteriously whisked back in time to find herself falling for a mysterious, roguish man of that time. A romance novel.
BARCLAY, FLORENCE
Returned Empty (Putnam, 1920.)
Not seen. Reincarnation.
BARCLAY, JAMES
Cry of the Newborn (Gollancz, 2005.)
Ascendants of Estorea #1.
As war threatens to overrun a kingdom, four children discover they have magical powers.
Dawnthief (Gollancz, 1999, Millennium, 2000.)
Raven #1.
A group of mercenaries are hired by a mage to track down and recover a spell that could mean the end of their world.
Demonstorm (Gollancz, 2004.)
Raven #6.
The walls between worlds crumble for the final battle.
Elfsorrow (Gollancz, 2002.)
Raven #4.
An elf wizard decides to interfere in the war among the humans because their violence threatens the future of his own people.
Light Stealer (PS, 2003.)
Prequel to the Raven series.
A sorcerer develops a spell powerful enough to destroy the world, oblivious to the fact that this will appeal to the leaders of warring nations.
Nightchild (Gollancz, 2001.)
Raven #3.
This time the band of allies is split among themselves when a young child demonstrates magical powers so intense that she may have to be destroyed to save the world..
Noonshade (Gollancz, 2000.)
Raven #2.
A rift between worlds has been opened, and a horde of dragons is entering a formerly peaceful realm. A band of warriors is all that stands between civilization and chaos.
Shadowheart (Gollancz, 2003.)
Raven #5.
War spreads throughout the land and magical forces gather on either side.
Shout for the Dead, A (Gollancz, 2006.)
Ascendants of Estorea #2.
The advent of magic leaves a world threatened by armies of the undead.
BARING, MAURICE
Half a Minute’s Silence and Other Stories (Heinemann, 1925.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BARKER, CLIVE (Also writes Science Fiction and Horror.)
Abarat (HarperCollins, 2002.)
Abarat #1.
Kitchen sink contemporary fantasy novel with magic, creatures, and mayhem.
Days of Magic, Nights of War (Joanna Cotler, 2004.)
Abarat #2.
Candy Quackenbush flees her enemies across a fantasy world threatened by war.
Great and Secret Show, The (Collins, 1989, Harper & Row, 1990.)
A very long quasi-horror fantasy about a town where the fabric of reality is beginning to unravel. Scenes from the past are re-enacted, and an old enmity is about to reassert itself.
Imajica (Harper, 1991, Perennial, 2002.)
The Earth is only one of five planes of existence that make up the universe. The other four are connected but our world has become separated. Three unlikely people become the center of events which will reunite us with the other realms.
Imajica I: Fifth Dominion (Harper, 1995.)
First half of Imajica.
Imajica II: The Reconciliation (Harper, 1995.)
Second half of Imajica.
Sacrament
Thief of Always, The (Harper, 1992.)
An unhappy young man moves into a mystical house that exists outside space and time, supposedly a haven for those without hope. He soon suspects that there is a darker secret waiting to be discovered, that the refuge has a dark price. For younger readers.
Weaveworld (Poseidon, 1987, Pocket, 1988.)
A fabulous carpet has woven into its design the essence of every possible world, including our own. If it should fall into unscrupulous hands, of which there are many in this long novel, the carpet could be used as a weapon to dominate, or destroy, the world.
BARKER, M.A.R.
Flamesong (DAW, 1985.)
Empire of the Petal Throne #2.
A warrior and the woman he captures from the enemy are off on a series of adventures involving aliens, magic, and mundane dangers. Based on a role playing game.
Man of Gold, The ( DAW, 1984.)
Empire of the Petal Throne #1.
Based on a role playing game. Although set on another planet and involving aliens, this is a fantasy novel involving magic, spell casting, snippets of ideas taken from various periods of human history. Against this chaotic background, a heroic adventurer sets off on a quest to find a magic object.
BARLOUGH, JEFFREY E.
Anchorwick (Gresham & Doyle, 2008.)
Western Lights #5.
A series of mysteries involving ghostly appearances and other strangeness occur in a fantasy world.
Bertram of Butter Cross (Gresham & Doyle, 2007.)
Western Lights #4.
A woman has strange encounters in a stand of magical woods.
Dark Sleeper (Ace, 2000.)
Western Lights #1.
A mysterious force has wakened in the town of Salthead, raising the dead and using other magical talents to forward its aims.
House in the High Woods, The (Ace, 2001.)
Western Lights #2.
A new family moves into a remote town and strange events begin almost immediately. One citizen will rouse himself to investigate and find out the nature of the evil force that besets them all.
Strange Cargo (Ace, 2004.)
Western Lights #3.
Three travelers find their destiny in an alternate 19th Century where the last ice age never ended and magic works.
Hamlet Dreams (Aardwolf, 2001.)
A young man is held captive in the fantasy world he thought he had created in his dreams, just when he is needed to rescue the woman he loves from a real flesh and blood danger in our world.
BARLOWE, WAYNE
God's Demon (Tor, 2007.)
A subordinate of Satan decides to start a new war between Heaven and Hell.
BARNES, JOHN (Also writes Science Fiction.)
One for the Morning Glory (Tor, 1996.)
An unconventional treatment of a conventional theme. A prince magically charmed to have only half his body matures in the company of four companions whose eventual deaths in the war between his kingdom and another leads to the restoration of his full body.
BARNES, JONATHAN
Domino Men, The (Gollancz, 2008.)
Adventures in an alternate Victorian England.
Somnambulist, The (Gollancz, 2007.)
A stage magician investigates magical crimes.
BARNES, STEVEN (Also writes Science Fiction and Horror.)
Blood Brothers (Tor, 1996.)
Two men must overcome their racial differences to track down a pair of sorcerers who have achieved immortality by stealing the life force of their descendants.
Iron Shadows (Tor, 1998.)
A detective and her companion are investigating the abduction of an heiress when they stumble on a cult that has tapped into the dream world and allowed discorporate beings to enter human bodies.
BARNETT, JULIANA
Magic, The (Fanfare, 1996.)
Extrasensory powers in a romance novel set at the time of the Crusades.
Wild (Pocket, 1998.)
A man is rescued from death by inhabitants of the fairy world. He eventually returns accompanied by a mysterious woman from that realm for a fresh string of adventures. A romance novel.
BARNITZ, CHARLES
Deepest Sea, The (Roc, 1996.)
Viking adventure in the 8th Century, with Christianity beginning to challenge the old Norse beliefs. A young man sets off on a journey across Europe to prove his worth to the girl he loves, and encounters the last gasps of a magical land.
BARON, NICK (Pseudonym of Scott Ciencin, whom see.)
Castle of the Undead (TSR, 1994.)
An Endless Quest Gamebook.
An adventurer and a telepathic wolf battle a vampire to discover the secret of a magical artifact, set in the world of the Ravenloft series.
BARRETT, NEAL JR. (See also Steve Atley. Also writes Science Fiction.)
Dungeons and Dragons: The Movie (Wizards of the Coast, 2000, based on the screenplay by Topper Lilien and Carroll Cartwright)
When a sorcerer battles the leader of a small kingdom and attempts to seize the throne, the young woman who opposes him finds that her strongest allies are a pair of common thieves.
Hereafter Gang, The (Ziesing, 1991, Mojo, ?)
A satirical contemporary fantasy about a young man who goes off to search for his lost youth and finds a number of magical characters in the process.
Prophecy Machine, The (Bantam, 2000.)
Finn #1.
An inventor goes on a vacation cruise with his wife, a mouse turned into a human being. They are stranded in a bizarre country where no one has good manners, religious groups battle each other at night, and are hosted by a family that seems determined to destroy itself.
Treachery of Kings, The (Bantam, 2001.)
Finn #2.
An inventory is sent to deliver a birthday present to a hostile king, and finds himself caught up in the politics of that nation as well as those of his own.
BARRETT, WILLIAM F. (Also writes Science Fiction and Horror.)
Lady and the Lotus, The (Doubleday, 1975, Avon, 1975, Jeremy Tarcher, 1989.)
Marginal fantasy based on the spiritual content of this fictional life of Buddha.
BARRETT, VICTORIA
Maybe This Time (Pinnacle, 1996.)
Two contemporary lovers learn that they are reincarnated from a series of past personalities. To finally unite, they must travel back through time and alter their own fates as well as the course of history. A romance novel.
BARRIE, J.M. (There are many editions other than those listed below.)
Peter Pan. (Chronicle, 2000, DK, 2001, Tor, 2003, Starscape, 2003.)
Two children are off for adventures in Never Neverland involving pirates, crocodiles, and other humorous characters.
BARRIE, MONICA (Pseudonym of David Wind.)
Queen of Knights (Pocket, 1985.)
A story of Camelot with minimal fantastic content, primarily a Druid prophecy and some minor magic that might be trickery. The plot is essentially an historical romance involving the relationship between King Richard and the Lady Gwendolyn.
BARRINGER, LESLIE
Gerfalcon (Heinemann, 1927, Newcastle, 1980.)
Neustria #1.
Set in a mythical European kingdom in medieval times, a young runaway is befriended by witches, becomes involved in the brutal rivalries among the aristocracy, ultimately reclaims his family holding and defeats a load of bandits.
Joris of the Rock (Heinemann, 1928, Newcastle, 1980.)
Neustria #2.
Joris is the outlaw who laid siege to the hero of the first novel, and we see that battle again from the other side. He's an admirable rogue in some ways, although ultimately he comes to a bad end.
Shy Leopardess, The (Methuen, 1948, Newcastle, 1980.)
Neustria #3.
A lovers triangle involving the usurpation of a throne, a woman betrothed to a villain, plots and counterplots. The final volume of the loosely associated trilogy.
BARRON, T.A.
Ancient One, The (Tor, 1992, Philomel, 1992.)
A dispute arises between developers and ecologists over a stand of giant redwood trees in Oregon. A young woman investigating the area's history picks up an enchanted walking stick and travels back five centuries to visit a primitive tribe engaged in a battle against evil that parallels the one in the present.
Child of the Dark Prophecy (Philomel, 2004, Ace, 2005.)
Great Tree of Avalon #1.
A group of young characters explore the mystical world preceding the rise of King Arthur.
Eternal Flame, The (Philomel, ?, Ace, 2007.)
Great Tree of Avalon #3.
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Fires of Merlin, The (Philomel, 1998, Ace, 2000.)