Last updated 9/14/08
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Knopf, 1964, Unwin, 1967.)
Charlie #1
A young boy goes on a tour of a magical candy factory and gets into enormous amounts of trouble. Made into a motion picture.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Knopf, 1972, Allen & Unwin, 1973, Puffin, 1975.)
Charlie #2
Charlie and company have seized control of the chocolate factory, but the elevator takes them to outer space where they have to deal with unfriendly aliens. For younger readers.
Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willie Wonka (Unwin, 1987.)
Collection of related stories.
Danny, the Champion of the World (Knopf, 1975, Bantam, 1978.)
Marginal bit about a boy and his father and their strange adventures.
Gremlins, The (Random House, 1943.)
Not seen.
James and the Giant Peach (Knopf, 1961, Allen & Unwin, 1967, Puffin, 1973.)
A giant peach is home to some unusual giant insects who befriend a young boy. For younger readers.
Magic Finger, The (, 1966).
A hunter wakes up to find he's been turned into a bird.
Minpins, The (?, 1991)
A child finds tiny people living in the forest.
Roald Dahl Treasury, The (Viking, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sometime Never (Collins, 1949.)
During a new world war, gremlins take over the world.
Witches, The (?, 1983.)
A plot to turn all the children in the world into mice.
DAHLQUIST, GORDON
Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, The (Bantam, 2006.)
In an alternate Victorian age, an investigation reveals that magic is disappearing.
Whispering to Witches (Bloomsbury, 2005.)
A traveler inadvertently gets caught in the middle of a duel between witches.
DALEY, BRIAN (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Doomfarers of Coramonde, The (Del Rey, 1977.)
Coramonde #1.
A group of soldiers are transported from Vietnam into a fantasy realm which is itself wracked by war. Their only hope of returning to their own world is to rescue a sorceress held captive in Hell itself.
Starfollowers of Coramonde, The (Del Rey, 1979.)
Coramonde #2.
A group of soldiers transplanted from our world into one where magic works battle against an evil wizard who has raised an army of supernaturally powerful soldiers to conquer the world.
Tapestry of Magics, A (Del Rey, 1983.)
A heroic knight is forbidden to marry the woman he loves and banished to the Beyonds, a world outside of space and time where travelers and villains from different times and universes show up and interact. He then survives a series of varied, loosely related adventures.
DALKEY, KARA
Bhagavati (Tor, 1998.)
Blood of the Goddess #3.
Shipwrecked and taken prisoner by the Inquisition, a resourceful man preserves his life by claiming to know the secret of a powder that can restore the dead to life.
Bijapur (Tor, 1997.)
Blood of the Countess #2.
This historical fantasy series plunges deeper into legendary India, this time in search of a hidden city in which there is supposed to live a genuine goddess incarnate.
Crystal Sage (Roc, 1999.)
When her friend is transformed into a guitar, a feisty businesswoman makes a deal with an elf to solve a mystery in exchange for a reversal of the spell. Her quest reveals that the elf is not what he seems.
Curse of Sagamore, The (Ace, 1986.)
Sagamore #1.
The latest in a series of rulers descended from a court jester wants nothing to do with the throne, but despite his efforts to abdicate, he becomes involved with court intrigue, as well as a variety of supernatural creatures.
Euryale (Ace, 1988.)
Euryale has been cursed such that every man she loves turns to stone. She travels to Rome searching for someone with the knowledge to lift the curse, and has several adventures before her life is restored to something approximating normality.
Genpei (Tor, 2000.)
A variety of gods and other supernatural creatures take sides when two of the most powerful Japanese clans of the 12th Century declare war on one another.
Goa (Tor, 1996.)
Blood of the Goddess #1.
An adventurer in 16th Century India discovers an alchemist who seems to have found a way to bring the dead back to life. His attempts to discover the secret of immortality puts him in mortal danger.
Heavenward Path, The (Harcourt Brace, 1998.)
Mitsuko #2.
Having forgotten a promise she made to a ghost, a Japanese girl and her demonic friend must find his scattered people, rebuild his shrine, and deal with their own problems at the same time.
Little Sister (Harcourt Brace, 1996.)
Mitsuko #1.
A young Japanese girl crosses over to a magical world when her family is kidnapped by an evil warlord, and enlists the aid of a powerful spirit to rescue them.
Nightingale, The (Ace, 1988.)
A young girl whose ability to sing seems wondrous is actually the instrument of supernatural revenge against the king who favors her.
Steel Rose (Roc, 1997.)
An actor calls upon the powers of faerie in order to improve her performance, but finds herself caught between two magical factions, both of whom want to see a portion of our world converted into a more accessible climate for themselves.
Sword of Sagamore, The (Ace, 1989.)
Sagamore #2.
The curse mark which forced him to become king has been transplanted onto his brother, so Abderian hopes to lead a quiet, private life. But then the mark moves to the body of a child born of demons, and unless he can get it back, the entire kingdom may perish.
DALTON, ANNIE
Afterdark Princess, The (Methuen, 1990.)
Not seen. Fantasy for children.
Alpha Box, The (Methuen, 1991.)
Not seen. A rock group holds the key to another world.
Demon Spawn (Blackie, 1991.)
Not seen.
Naming the Dark (Methuen, 1992.)
Not seen. Atlantis.
Night Maze (Methuen, 1989.)
Not seen. A boy encounters an alchemist.
Out of the Ordinary (Methuen, 1988.)
A babysitter discovers that her charge is the target of malevolent forces from a magical otherworld and has subsequent adventures in contemporary England as well as the alternate reality.
Swan Sister (Methuen, 1992.)
Not seen. People who change into swans.
Witch Rose, The (Methuen, 1990.)
Not seen. Fantasy for children.
DANE, CHRISTOPHER (Also writes Science Fiction. Pseudonym of Adriana De Bolt.)
DANIELL, TINA (See also collaboration with Jean Rabe.)
Companions, The (TSR, 1993.)
Dragonlance Meeting Sextet #6.
One group of adventurers is shipwrecked in a remote land, and a group of friends set out to rescue them and defeat an evil sorcerer along the way.
Dark Heart (TSR, 1992.)
Dragonlance Meeting Sextet #3.
A warrior woman helps raise two brothers, one of whom is a warrior like herself, the other a physically weak but potentially powerful wizard.
Marquesta Kar-Thon (TSR, 1996.)
A feisty young woman captains a small ship on a quest to capture a sea monster. If she fails, the antidote her father needs to recover from a slow acting poison will be withheld.
DANIELLS, CORY (Pseudonym of Rowena Lindquist.)
Broken Vows (Bantam, 1999. Bantam Australia, 1999, as The Last T'En.)
T'En #1.
A female warrior trained in the diplomatic arts and heir to psychic powers which make their enemies uneasy has a problem. On the one hand, she has the chance to seduce the general in charge of the army that has conquered her people and shape his actions. On the other, she has been approached by the leader of the resistance, who wants her assistance to expel the invaders.
Dark Dreams (Bantam, ?.)
T'En #2.
?
Desperate Alliances (Bantam, 2002.)
T'En #3.
The princess who agreed to marry her people's enemy in order to save them finds her plans in disarray when her former suitor refuses to accept the situation.
Last T'En, The. (See Broken Vows.)
DANIELS, ANNETTE (Pseudonym of Danette Fertig-Thompson and Annette Chartier-Warren.)
Timeless Moment, A (Zebra, 1996.)
A woman from 1867 wakes up in the present and sets out to find the man she loved in her former life. A romance novel.
DANIEL, MEGAN
All the Time We Need (BMI, 1993.)
A woman falls into a river in New Orleans in the present and emerges in the previous century to discover true romance at last.
DANK, GLORIA RAND
Forest of App, The (Greenwillow, 1983, Pacer, 1984.)
A young man stumbles into a magical wood that is losing its power and visits with the dwindling population of mythical creatures living there. For younger readers.
DANKO, DAN (See collaborations with Tom Mason.)
Counting Coup (Forge, 2001.)
A hobo and his friends are on a grand tour of America, where they discover that ancient magic is hidden but still very real.
DANSKY, RICHARD E. (Also writes Horror.)
Beloved of the Dead (White Wolf, 2002.0
Second Age #2.
Two fugitives are forced to descend into the underworld to escape the powerful forces that pursue them.
Children of the Dragon (White Wolf, 2002.)
Second Age #3.
The fugitives must finally turn and confront their supernatural enemies, dealing with them en masse instead of one by one.
Chosen of the Sun (White Wolf, 2001.)
Second Age #1.
A trainee priest gives in to temptation and steals from a Prince, becoming a fugitive whose life eventually gets caught up with that of a young man who has taken arms against a supernatural evil.
DARBY, CATHERINE
Dream of Fair Serpents, A (Popular Library, 1979.)
A contemporary woman falls in love but finds her life altered by mysterious memories and influences that hearken back through the ages to a source in Druid rites.
DARBY, LYNDON (Pseudonym of Lynne Kinnerley and Ann Grimsley. Also writes Science Fiction.)
Bloodseed (Unwin, 1988.)
Eye of Time #2..
Not seen.
Crystal and Steel (Unwin, 1988.)
Eye of Time #1.
Not seen.
Phoenix Fire (Unwin, 1989.)
Eye of Time #3.
Not seen.
DARE, ALAN (Pseudonym of George Goodchild, who wrote Science Fiction under that name.)
Eye of Abu, The (?, 1927.)
The rediscovery of Atlantis and the Fountain of Youth.
D'ARIENZO, JAMES JR.
Woodbyrne: The Fallen Forest (Moo Press, 2003.)
Tolkienesque fantasy involving a mysterious spell and a mild quest.
DARLINGTON, W.A.
Alf's Button (Jenkins, 1919, Stokes, 1920.)
Alf #1.
Aladdin's lamp is melted and the genie is trapped in a button on Alf's coat.
Alf's Carpet (Jenkins, 1928.)
Alf #2.
Alf finds a magic carpet.
Alf's New Button (Jenkins, 1940.)
Alf #3
More fun with a genie.
Egbert (Jenkins, 1924.)
Not seen. A man is turned into a rhinoceros.
Wishes Limited (Jenkins, 1922.)
Not seen. Fairies.
Battle of Evernight, The (Warner, 2003.)
Bitterbynde #3.
A young woman holds the key to stopping a quarrel between two powerful personalities whose conflict has spread throughout the world.
Ill-Made Mute, The (Warner, 2001.)
Bitterbynde #1.
A young girl sets off on a quest to find a wise woman, but her journey is beset by a number of evil monsters. Then a young ranger decides to be her protector and escort her to her goal
Iron Tree, The (Tor, 2005.)
Crowthistle #1.
A young man travels about seeking information about his long missing father.
Lady of the Sorrows, The (Warner, 2002.)
Bitterbynde #2.
A woman seeks the ranger she loved but finds he and the king have gone on a quest. Supernatural forces begin to attack the city in his absence, and she fears that she is the cause.
Weatherwitch (Tor, 2006.)
Crowthistle #3.
A young woman must decide whether to stay with her father or pursue the magical abilities she inherited from her mother.
Well of Tears, The (Tor, 2006.)
Crowthistle #2.
A young woman flees a wrathful king and discovers her own heritage.
DAVID, JAMES F. (Also writes Science Fiction and Horror.)
Judgment Day (Forge, 2005.)
Odd blend of SF and supernatural. As judgment day nears, the devil begins to gather his forces, but religious groups use a revolutionary space drive to colonize another world.
DAVID, PETER (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Darkness of the Light, The (Tor, 2007.)
Earth has become magical again and is fought over by a variety of races, including humans and vampires.
Fall of Knight (Ace, 2006.)
King Arthur #3.
King Arthur's identity is revealed and he begins dispensing healing water from the Holy Grail.
Howling Mad (Ace, 1989.)
When a werewolf bites a wolf, the poor animal is turned into a wereman, spending his days in a New York City zoo and his nights wandering around trying to understand the human world.
Knight Life (Ace, 1987. Ace, 2002, revised.)
King Arthur #1.
King Arthur is magically transported to present day New York City where he runs for mayor in this frequently hilarious romp. His misconceptions about modern society form the basis of much of the humor. Morgan LeFay shows up to interfere with his campaign.
One Knight Only (Ace, 2003.)
King Arthur #2.
The new President of the US is actually King Arthur returned, but Merlin has been transformed into a statue and cannot advise him when he must find the Holy Grail to save his wife's life.
Sir Apropos of Nothing (Pocket, 2001.)
Sir Apropos #1.
A professional thief begins to doubt his own lifestyle after witnessing the death of an innocent girl, and takes an unusually erratic path to fighting the evil in his imaginary world.
Tigerheart (Del Rey, 2008.)
A boy in touch with the world of magic never grows up.
Woad to Wuin, The (Pocket, 2002.)
Sir Apropos #2.
A tavern keeper wakes up one day to find he has been transported to an alternate world in which he is the ruthless commander of an army.
DAVIDSON, AVRAM (See also collaboration which follows. Also writes Science Fiction.)
Collected Fantasies (Berkley, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven (Devora, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not all fantasy, and other writings, all with a Jewish theme.
Island Under the Earth, The (Ace, 1969, Mayflower, 1975, Wildside, 2002.)
A varied cast of characters pursues their separate interests in a magical land where the six-limbed folks are plotting to achieve a greater destiny. Planned as the first of a trilogy, though subsequent volumes never appeared.
Other Nineteenth Century, The (Tor, 2001.)
Collection of sometimes loosely related stories.
Peregrine: Primus (Walker, 1971, Ace, 1977, Wildside, 2002.)
Peregrine #1.
A young aristocrat in the last pagan kingdom on Earth sets out on a quest to secure his manhood and runs into dragons, heroes and villains human and inhuman, and the legions of Rome itself.
Peregrine: Secundus (Berkley, 1981, Wildside, 2002.)
Peregrine #2.
The bastard son of a king escapes from a curse of shapeshifting only to find himself little better off restored to humanity. His adventures include encounters with a sphinx, a dragon, and some human opponents as well.
Phoenix and the Mirror, The (Ace, 1969, Doubleday, 1969, Mayflower, 1975.)
Virgil #1.
The poet Vergil was actually a sorcerer who defends his world against the powers of the supernatural phoenix. A remarkably intelligent and erudite fantasy to which promised sequels never appeared.
Ursus of Ultima Thule (Avon, 1973, Wildside, 2002.)
A doughty warrior exiles himself to the frozen northern wasteland, but even there he is forced to interfere with the plans of evil sorcerers to seize control of the world.
Virgil in Averno (Doubleday, 1987.)
Virgil #2.
Virgil arrives in a city filled with corruption and twisted magic. His search for knowledge gets sidetracked when he becomes involved with a beautiful woman, unfortunately wife of a powerful and jealous man.
DAVIDSON, AVRAM & DAVIS, GRANIA
Boss in the Wall, The (Tachyon, 1998.)
After a confrontation with a mystical spirit, a man encounters a series of charlatans.
Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (Baen, 1988, Wildside, 2002.)
Marco Polo wants to return home but Genghis Khan will only release him if he agrees to first locate the secret of immortality.
DAVIDSON, GLADYS
Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The. (See Sinbad's Seven Voyages.)
Sinbad's Seven Voyages (Scholastic, 1974. Originally published by Scholastic in 1959 as The Seven Voyages of Sinbad.)
Collection of unrelated stories, only one about Sinbad.
DAVIDSON, LIONEL
Under Plum Lake (Knopf, 1980, Bantam, 1983. (Jonathan Cape, 1980, Bantam, 1983, Puffin, ? William Heinemann, 1982, as by David Line.)
A young boy travels through a cave to a magical world that is both strange and beautiful, but no one back in the real world will believe him.
DAVIDSON, MARYJANICE (See also collaborations which follow. Also writes Science Fiction and Horror.)
Fish Out of Water (Jove, 2008.)
Mermaid #3.
The human world discovers the hidden kingdom of merpeople.
Really Unusual Bad Boys (Brava, 2005.)
Collection of related stories.
Sleeping with the Fishes (Jove, 2006.)
Mermaid #1.
A mermaid solves a mystery involving toxic waste.
Swimming Without a Net (Jove, 2007.)
Mermaid #2.
Humorous romance involving mermaids.
Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace (Berkley Jam, 2005.)
Jennifer Scales #1.
A teenager who is also a weredragon tries to have a normal life even though she is surrounded by shapeshifters.
Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light (Berkley, 2006, Ace, 2007.)
Jennifer Scales #2.
A weredragon teenager has to deal with an equally gifted but nasty half brother.
Silver Moon Elm, the (Berkley, 2007, Ace, 2008.)
Jennifer Scales #3.
A teenager who is also a dragon wakes up to find herself in an unrecognizable version of our world.
DAVIDSON, SANDRA
Heart Remembers, The (Zebra, 1995.)
A love hungry author dreams of past ages and wakes up one day to find out she has regressed through time to find her true love. A romance.
DAVIES, ROBERTSON (Also writes Horror.)
Cornish Trilogy, The (Penguin, 1992.)
Omnibus of the Cornish series.
Lyre of Orpheus, The (Macmillan, 1988, Viking, 1988.)
Cornish #3.
The ghost of E.T.A. Hoffman lingers to await the completion of one of his works.
Rebel Angels (MacMillan, 1982, Viking, 1982.)
Cornish #1.
Not seen.
What’s Bred in the Bone (Macmillan, 1985, Viking, 1985.)
Cornish #2.
Ghosts shape an artist’s life to suit their own purposes.
DAVIES, VALENTINE
It Happens Every Spring (Farrar Strauss, 1949, Avon, 1950.)
Fantasy about baseball. Made into a movie.
Miracle on 34th Street (Harcourt Brace, 1947, Pocket, 1952)
Santa Claus pays a visit to a small town where some have lost the Christmas spirit. Made into a movie.
DAVIS, BRETT (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Faery Convention, The (Baen, 1995.)
Faery #1.
The world's mythical creatures turn out to be real, reveal themselves in the 20th Century, and they're currently planning a political convention to try to hammer out a deal with the US for a separate state. But a secret group of shapechangers plans to undermine the proceedings and precipitate a war with the humans.
Hair of the Dog (Baen, 1997.)
Faery #2.
An apparent philanthropist has developed a treatment that will "cure" werewolves of their shapechanging affliction, but there are rumors that the treatment frequently leaves its subjects mentally damaged.
Everything in Its Time (Jove, 2000.)
Two people from distant times meet and fall in love, unaware that they are not in the same era. They spend years afterwards trying to be reunited and eventually succeeding.
DAVIS, GRAEME
Blood and Honor (Wizards of the Coast, 2006.)
An Eberron novel.
An exile saves a family menaced by kidnappings of both the living and the dead.
DAVIS, GRANIA (See also collaboration with Avram Davidson.)
King and the Mangoes, The (Dharma, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Moonbird (Doubleday, 1986, Wildside, 2002.)
A young man from the South Pacific dreams of wider worlds, but discovers there is more complexity even in his own small universe. A magical amulet opens up vistas of another universe, and an evil force stirs in the background.
Proud Peacock and the Mallard, The (Dharma, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Rainbow Annals, The (Avon, 1980, Wildside, 2002.)
A short epic fantasy based on Tibetan law, incorporating interesting variations of the powers of good and evil, with demons, beautiful maidens, and other fantasy conventions.
DAVIS, JAMES D.
Bloodwalk (Wizards of the Coast, 2006.0
A Forgotten Realms novel.
A woman who returns from death in a fantasy world has supernatural powers.
Somewhere Lies the Moon (Pocket, 1999.)
Contemporary romance novel involving a genuine psychic.
DAWSON, GERALYN (Pseudonym of Geralyn Dawson Williams.)
Sizzle All Day (Sonnet, 2000.)
Mildly humorous romantic ghost story about a haunted Scottish castle.
DAWSON, SARANNE (Also writes Science Fiction.)
Awakenings (Leisure, 1994.)
A witch uses her magic to combat an evil ruler in this romance novel.
Enchanted Land, The (Leisure, 1992.)
The protagonist is studying legends of a magical people living in a remote part of New York, unaware that they are real and that she is linked to them.
Greenfire (Leisure, 1994.)
Passionate love in a barbaric fantasy world.
Heart of the Wolf (Leisure, 1994.)
A shapechanger helps a woman hold onto her kingdom when it is menaced by an evil enemy.
Secrets of the Wolf (Leisure, 1998.)
A search for a lost civilization causes a woman to meet a man to whom she is romantically drawn, but who reveals himself to be a werewolf.
DAY, ALYSSA (Pseudonym of Alesia Holliday.)
Atlantis Awakening (Berkley, 2007.)
Warriors of Poseidon #2.
Romance with vampires.
Atlantis Rising (Berkley, 2007.)
Warriors of Poseidon #1.
A warrior from under the sea takes a mission on the surface and begins to feel human.
Atlantis Unleashed (Berkley, 2008.)
Warriors of Poseidon #3.
Back from the dead, a warrior strives to protect the woman he loves.
DAY, MARELE
Lambs of God (Riverhead, 1999.)
Marginal story of religious mysticism involving three nuns whose encounter with a new priest affects their beliefs that souls are being reincarnated in sheep.
DAY, SYLVIA
Pleasures of the Night (HarperCollins, 2007.)
Warfare in the world of dreams.
Barbed Rose, The (Luna, 2006.)
Rose #2.
The protagonist must decide whether to risk her love in order to save her people from demonic attacks.
Compass Rose, The (Luna, 2005.)
Rose #1.
A woman is given great magical powers and charged with performing a great deed.
DEAKINS, JOHN
Barrow (Roc, 1990.)
An apparently innocuous man with some magical abilities is actually a serious minded wizard who uses his talents to manipulate people around him in a quiet war against evil.
DEAN, PAMELA
Dubious Hills, The (Tor, 1994.)
Hidden Land #4.
Further adventures of a group of children who have found the way into a magical other world. More marvel and mystery than physical action. Although the protagonists are children, the book is written on an adult level.
Hidden Land, The (Ace, 1986.)
Hidden Land #2.
Further adventures of a group of children from our world lost in a magical kingdom that mirrors the role playing fantasy game they'd been using to amuse themselves. Much more serious and literate than most novels that used this popular theme.
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary (Tor, 1998.)
A quiet but relentless fantasy about three sisters who become fascinated with the strange boy who moves in across the street. He involves them in a plan to build a time machine in their attic, but it’s a machine to control rather than travel through time, and he uses it to seize control of their lives.
Secret Country, The (Ace, 1985.)
Hidden Land #1.
A group of children discover the entrance to a magical other world filled with unicorns, monsters, and adventures. It appears to be a materialization of a fantasy world they created in an elaborate series of games.
Tam Lin (Tor, 1990.)
A magical love story about a mortal woman who contends with the queen of the fairies for the love of a mortal man caught between them.
Whim of the Dragon, The (Ace, 1989.)
Hidden Land #3.
Although they escaped from an all too real version of their fantasy world, the protagonists are summoned back for a final confrontation with the dreaded Dragon King.
DEARMER, GEOFFREY
They Chose to Be Birds (Heinemann, 1935.)
Not seen. A man is transformed into a bird.
DEAUXVILLE, KATHERINE (Pseudonym of Maggie Davis.)
Eyes of Love (Kensington, 1996.)
Romance novel set in ancient Scotland in which the heroine is accused of practicing witchcraft and genuine second sight is a prominent plot device.
DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE
All Men Are Mortal (?, 1955. Published in France in 1946.)
Not seen.
DE BERNIERES, LOUIS
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (?, 1991.)
An outspoken man fights government corruption and drug trading in a novel that plays with magical elements. Marginal.
War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, The (?, 1990.)
A revolutionary in South America learns to use magic to protect his followers when they break away from a corrupt society and set up their own culture.
DE BIE, ERIK SCOTT
Depths of Madness (Wizards of the Coast, 2007.)
A Forgotten Realms novel.
A group of people are trapped in a mystical dungeon.
Ghostwalker (Wizards of the Coast, 2005.)
A Forgotten Realms novel.
A warrior has various adventures.
DE CAMP, CATHERINE CROOK (See collaborations with L. Sprague de Camp.)
DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE (See collaborations which follow.)
Carnelian Cube, The (Gnome, 1948, Lancer, 1967.)
The protagonist finds a magical cube that will allow him to travel to other realities. But the more he searches for the perfect world, the more trouble he gets into.
Clocks of Iraz, The (Pyramid, 1971, Sphere,1979, Del Rey, 1983, Grafton, 1988.)
Reluctant King #2.
Jorian has yet to be beheaded as the law requires, and now he's trying to repair a set of giant clocks and lift a pirate siege, after which he merely has to rescue the woman he loves from a foreign ruler.
Fallible Fiend, The (Signet, 1973, Remploy, 1974, Sphere, 1978, Del Rey, 1981.)
A relentlessly literal demon is set to guard a doorway and is eventually disgraced when he devours his master's apprentice. A frequently amusing series of misadventures follows as the demon attempts to understand the illogical nature of human conflict.
Goblin Tower, The (Pyramid, 1968, Sphere, 1979, Del Rey, 1983.)
Reluctant King #1.
The reluctant king is to be ritually executed unless he can perform a series of heroic acts to avoid his inevitable fate. His first such attempt is made more complex by the presence of shapechangers, apemen, and a giant squirrel.
Honorable Barbarian, The (Del Rey, 1989, Easton, 1989.)
Reluctant King #4.
The younger brother of Jorian, hero of the first three books, sets off for a series of adventures when he takes passage aboard a pirate ship, rescues their beautiful captive, and runs afoul of a gaggle of wizards.
Purple Pterodactyls, The (Ace, 1979, Phantasia, 1979.)
Collection of related stories about one character's many encounters with magic.
Reluctant King, The (Doubleday, 1985, Baen, 1996.)
Omnibus of the first three Reluctant King novels.
Reluctant Shaman, The (Pyramid, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sir Harold and the Gnome King (Wildside, 1991.)
Harold Shea #4.
Long story in chapbook form about the professor/sorcerer’s latest escapade in a fantasy world.
Solomon's Stone (Avalon, 1957.)
A faked invocation of a demon actually works.
Tritonian Ring, The (Twayne, 1953, Paperback Library, 1968, Owlswick, 1977, Del Rey, 1977, Sphere, 1978.)
A prehistoric hero on the lost island nation of Poseidonis is sent on a mission to save his people by a witch when they are threatened by invasion from another land.
Unbeheaded King, The (Del Rey, 1983, Grafton, 1988.)
Reluctant King #3.
The fugitive king and a friendly wizard enlist the aid of a demon in their quest to free the queen from the city which still hopes to execute their missing ruler.
Undesired Princess, The (Fantasy Publishing, 1951. Magazine version, 1942. Baen, 1990, bound with The Enchanted Bunny by David Drake.)
An engineer is kidnapped into a world of pure logic, where everything acts exactly as it is supposed to, including people, and where even the monsters have an excess of personality. His subsequent attempts to get home are marvelously funny.
DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE & CARTER, LIN
Conan of Aquilonia (Ace, 1977, Prestige, 1977, Sphere, 1978.)
A Conan adventure.
Conan's son and heir to his throne falls prey to an evil cult of sorcerers and Conan sets out singlehanded to have his revenge.
Conan of the Isles (Lancer, 1968, Sphere, 1974, Ace, 1980.)
A Conan adventure
Conan battles pirates, monsters, sorcery, and assassins in a series of loosely related adventures among the less civilized islands on the fringe of his world.
Conan the Barbarian (Bantam, 1982, from the screenplay by John Milius and Oliver Stone.)
A Conan adventure.
A very young Conan survives the slaughter of his village and sets out to have vengeance on the sorcerer who led the attacking force. With only a few unlikely allies, he defeats a much larger force led by his old enemies.
Conan the Buccaneer (Lancer, 1971, Sphere, 1975, Ace, 1977.)
A Conan adventure.
Conan becomes a pirate and sails off to visit and have various adventures in a fabulous island land unknown to the rest of the world except in legends. He finds supernatural as well as mundane challenges.
Conan the Liberator (Bantam, 1979, Sphere, 1980, Ace, 1987, Tor, 2002.)
A Conan adventure.
As King of Aquilonia, Conan rallies his army to defeat the much larger force raised by a rival nation which intends to annex Aquilonia into a new empire..
DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE & CARTER, LIN & HOWARD, ROBERT
Conan Chronicles, The (Orbit, 1989.)
Omnibus of Conan stories.
Conan Chronicles 2, The (Orbit, 1990.)
Omnibus of Conan stories.
DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE & CARTER, LIN & NYBERG, BJORN
Conan the Swordsman (Bantam, 1978, Sphere, 1978, Ace, 1987, Tor, 2002.)
A Conan adventure.
A collection of stories about the barbarian hero.
DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE & DE CAMP, CATHERINE CROOK
Incorporated Knight, The (Baen, 1987, Phantasia, 1987.)
Knight #1.
Novel patched together from a series of short stories, about a knight's magical, and generally whimsical adventures.
Pixilated Peeress, The (Del Rey, 1991.)
Knight #2.
An unlikely hero assists a fugitive maiden as she magically alters her appearance, but things go awry with the result that she ends up looking like an octopus. More attempts to set things right lead to danger at the hands of a charismatic sorcerer and his followers, as well as the untrustworthiness of magic in general.
DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE & HOWARD, ROBERT
Conan and the Spider God (Bantam, 1980, Ace, 1989. Tor, 2002 does not list Howard as co-author.)
Unjustly accused of kidnapping a queen, Conan must rescue her from inside the temple of a cult that has actually recruited the assistance of a minor god. Even a godling proves incapable of defeating the barbarian warrior.