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The real source of the fantastique genre is the English Gothic novel of late 1785. In addition to the emergence of fantastique themes (ghosts, the Devil, vampires), these novels, characterised by a more pronounced atmosphere of horror, introduced the ambiguity characteristic of the genre.
Many artists have produced works which fit the definition of fantastic art. Some, such as Nicholas Roerich, worked almost exclusively in the genre, others such as Hieronymus Bosch, who has been described as the first "fantastic" artist in the Western tradition, [2] produced works both with and without fantastic elements, and for artists such as Francisco de Goya, fantastic works were only a ...
Eddison's most famous work is The Worm Ouroboros (1922), a long heroic fantasy set on an imaginary version of the planet Mercury. [66] Literary critics of the era began to take an interest in "fantasy" as a genre of writing, and also to argue that it was a genre worthy of serious consideration.
An important factor in the development of the fantasy genre was the arrival of magazines devoted to fantasy fiction. The first such publication was the German magazine Der Orchideengarten which ran from 1919 to 1921. [50] In 1923, the first English-language fantasy fiction magazine, Weird Tales, was created. [51]
This is a list of science fiction and fantasy artists, notable and well-known 20th- and 21st-century artists who have created book covers or interior illustrations for books, or who have had their own books or comic books of fantastic art with science fiction or fantasy themes published.
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction which involves themes of the supernatural, magic, and imaginary worlds and creatures. [1] [2]Its roots are in oral traditions, which became fantasy literature and drama.
The starting point of the fornaldarsagas' influence on the creation of the Fantasy genre is the publication, in 1825, of the most famous Swedish literary work Frithjof's saga, which was based on the Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, and it became an instant success in England and Germany. It is said to have been translated twenty-two times into ...
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), author of Biography of the Life of Manuel; Miles Cameron, author of the Traitor Son Cycle; Trudi Canavan (born 1969), author of the Age of the Five novels; Orson Scott Card (born 1951), author of Ender's Game and Hart's Hope; Jacqueline Carey (born 1964), author of Kushiel's Legacy and The Sundering