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Fantasy can be described as all of the following: Genre – any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. For example, jazz is a genre of music. Fantasy is a genre of fiction, and more specifically, a genre of speculative fiction.
Stories involving magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature. Classical mythology is replete with fantastical stories and characters, the best known (and perhaps the most relevant to modern fantasy) being the works of Homer (Greek) and Virgil (Roman).
Slippery and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty; The Small Assassin a.k.a. Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury; Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman; Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty; Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang; Strange Doings by R. A. Lafferty; Strange Itineraries by Tim Powers; Strange Seas and Shores by Avram Davidson
Although many fantasy novels of this time proved popular, it was not until 1977's The Sword of Shannara that publishers found the sort of breakthrough success they had hoped for. The book became the first fantasy novel to appear on, and eventually top the New York Times bestseller list. As a result, the genre saw a boom in the number of titles ...
Fantasy is a genre of speculative ... Stories of the supernatural continued ... The fantastic during this time period reflects these new ideas by breaking parallel ...
82. Reimagine a classic tale: Take a well-known story or fairy tale and give it a modern twist. 83. Superhero origins: Create a superhero character, detailing their origin story, powers, and ...
Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979) (stories) Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge (1981) Tanith Lee's Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) a collection of short stories, all fairytale fantasies, many of them revisionist; Francesca Lia Block's The Rose and the Beast (1993) (stories) Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch ...
The conflict of good against evil is a theme in the many popular forms of fantasy; normally, evil characters invade and disrupt the good characters' lands. [2] J. R. R. Tolkien delved into the nature of good and evil in The Lord of the Rings, but many of those who followed him use the conflict as a plot device, and often do not distinguish the sides by their behavi