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This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire.. A grimoire (/ ɡ r ɪ m ˈ w ɑːr /) (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) [citation needed] is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural ...
Marjorie Bowen, Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909) Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) Ivo Brešan, Cathedral (2007) [2] Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls (1992) and Exquisite Corpse (1996) Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1850) Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Dark fantasy settings are often eerie or gothic, with haunted forests, ancient ruins, decrepit castles, and misty graveyards. [2] Stories that often include evil creatures, gore, dark magic, and other types of unsettling imagery or characteristics, often set in a twisted reality, themes like decay, despair, and the inevitability of suffering.
Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, marked by harsh laws enforced by torture and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals .
[22]: 3–4 Western confusion regarding magical realism is due to the "conception of the real" created in a magical realist text: rather than explain reality using natural or physical laws, as in typical Western texts, magical realist texts create a reality "in which the relation between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based ...
Harry Potter is a powerful young wizard, one of the children of The Dark Is Rising series is an immature Old One with magical abilities, and in the His Dark Materials series the children have magical items and animal allies. The plot frequently incorporates a bildungsroman.
Magic Kingdom of Landover: Terry Brooks: Setting for six novels and two short stories: Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! 1986: N Lankhmar: Fritz Leiber: A city on the primitive world of Nehwon, home of the rogues Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Two Sought Adventure: 1939: N G C Malazan World: Steven Erikson: Setting of the Malazan Books of the Fallen ...
Fantasy (including comics and magazines) is a speculative fiction that use imaginary characters set in fictional universes inspired by mythology and folklore, often including magical elements, magical creatures, or the supernatural. Examples: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1885) and the Harry Potter books. [1] Action-adventure Heroic; Lost ...