Sub-Genre Type: Fantasy

It's funny but as much as I love fantasy today, I was a late reader. Science Fiction I was absorbing even before I could read from shows on TV, but Fantasy was not as common in the 50s and 60s. Still, I can well rememberin the 70s fellow English majors at ENC (Eastern Nazarene College) thinking me "unread" because I had not yet gotten around to Tolkien. Now I love this genre, but it may surprise you some of the works that I include below as examples of Fantasy.

All works are listed here in alphabetical order by the first important word in the title

A

• The Aeneid by Virgil [Epic][Epic][Fan][Roman][classic]
• The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by H P Lovecraft // Edited by S.T. Joshi [ShortStories][Fan] [Horror][American][20th Century]

• The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White [British] [novel][Fan] [20th Century] [Sequel to Once and Future King]
• The Bacchantes or The Bacchae by Euripides [Greek][drama][Fan][classical]on J-Drive
• Beowulf by Anonymous [British][epic][Fantasy][Medieval][

• The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove.[American] [novel]fan] [20th Century]
• The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens [British] [short story][Fan][19th Century] [Actual Text]

• Dracula by Brahm Stoker [British][novel][Fan][Horror][19th Century]

• The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous [Sumerian][epic][Fantasy][classical]

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien [British] [novel] [ Fantasy] [20th Century] [Book I of Lord of the Rings]
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [British][novel][SF][horror][Fan][19th Century]

• The Grass Dancer by Susan Power [American][novel][Fantasy][FantasticRealism] [20th Century]

• The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury [American][novel][Fantasy][Children's Literature][20th Century]
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling [Novel] [Children's Literature][Fan][British][20th Cent][Contemporary]
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien [British] [novel] [Fantasy] [20th Century][Children's Literature][Prequel to Lord of the Rings]

• Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson [Epic][Fan][British][19th Cent.]

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M

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare [British][Drama][Fan][17th Century]

• The Natural by Edward Malamude [American][novel][Fantasy][Fantastic Realism][20th Century]

• The Odyssey by Homer [Greek] [epic] [Fan] [classic] [Actual text]
• Once and Future King by T.H. White [British] [novel] [ Fantasy] [20th Century] [Book I of Lord of the Rings]

• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan [British] [novel][Alleg][Fan][17th Century][on J Drive]

R

• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien [British] [novel] [Fantasy] [20th Century] [Book III of Lord of the Rings]
• The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere by T.S. Coleridge [British][Lyrical][from Lyrical Ballads][Fan][19th Century]

• Sir Galwain and the Green Knight by Anonymous [British][Romance][Fantasy] [Mediveal]
• Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury [American][novel][Fan][Children's Literature][20th Century]

• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien [British] [novel] [ Fantasy] [20th Century] [Book II of Lord of the Rings]

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