Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy
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| Author | Wayne Barlowe |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Wayne Barlowe |
| Cover artist | Wayne Barlowe |
| Publisher | 1996 (HarperPrism) |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 100 |
| ISBN | 0-06-105238-8 |
| OCLC | 34742199 |
| 741 .64 092—dc20 | |
| LC Class | 96-3056 |
Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy is a 1996 fantasy book by artist Wayne Barlowe. A companion to his earlier book Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials, it contains his visualizations of different beings from various works of fantasy. The foreword is by John Silbersack, then editor-in-chief at HarperPrism. The interior text is by Neil Duskis.
Characters and species
- Alzabo – Gene Wolfe's The Sword of the Lictor (Species)
- Anyanwu – Octavia E. Butler's Wild Seed (Character)
- Baital – Captain Sir Richard F. Burton's King Vikram and the Vampire (Species)
- Beatriz De Barbentain – Guy Gavriel Kay's A Song for Arbonne (Character)
- Biargram Ironhand – David Drake's The Dragon Lord (Character)
- Bran Mak Morn – Robert E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn (Character)
- Camber of Culdi – Katherine Kurtz's Camber of Culdi (Character)
- The Caterpillar – Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Character)
- Changeling – John Crowley's Little, Big (Species)
- Chuz – Tanith Lee's Delusion's Master (Character)
- Corum Jhaelen Irsei – Michael Moorcock's The Knight of the Swords (Character)
- Dara – Roger Zelazny's The Guns of Avalon (Character)
- Dark Ones – Barbara Hambly's The Time of the Dark (Species)
- Drool Rockworm – Stephen R. Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane (Character, Cavewight)
- Eastern Afrit – Tim Powers' The Drawing of the Dark (Species)
- Elemental – Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood (Species)
- Gek-a-gek – Clive Barker's Imajica (Species)
- Gideon Winter/The Dragon – Peter Straub's Floating Dragon (Character)
- Golem – Hebrew legend (Artificial)
- Gorice XII – E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros (Character)
- Grendel – Beowulf (Character)
- Griffin – Greek and Middle Eastern mythology (Species)
- Gugs – H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Species)
- Herrel – Andre Norton's Year of the Unicorn (Character, Were-Rider)
- Ilrede – Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (Character, Troll)
- Kerowyn – Mercedes Lackey's By the Sword (Character)
- Lamprey-worms – Dan Simmons' Summer of Night (Species)
- Lirazel – Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter (Character)
- The Machine-beast – Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara (Character)
- Morgaine – Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (Character)
- Mort – Terry Pratchett's Mort (Character)
- Nevyn – Katharine Kerr's Daggerspell (Character)
- Nissifer – Jack Vance's Cugel's Saga (Character)
- Psammead – E. Nesbit's Five Children and It (Species)
- Quicksilver Dragon – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragon Wing (Species)
- The Red Death – Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" (Character)
- The Sawhorse – L. Frank Baum's The Land of Oz (Artificial)
- Shadow – Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (Character)
- Shrowk – David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (Species)
- Silent One – A. Merritt's The Moon Pool (Species)
- Swine-things – William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland (Species)
- Tengu – Japanese folklore (Species)
- Mr. Toad – Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (Character)
- Toothguards – Tad Williams' Tailchaser's Song (Species)
- Trollocs – Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World (Species)
- The Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn (Character)
- Unseelie Court Assassins – Emma Bull's War for the Oaks (Species)
- Vodyanois – C. J. Cherryh's Russian novel trilogy: Rusalka, Chernevog and Yvgenie (Species)
- White Lady – Raymond E. Feist's Faerie Tale (Character)
- Wolfen – Whitley Strieber's The Wolfen (Species)
Extra content
A foldout section in the middle of the work, showing size comparisons. Pencil drawings of the creatures, including preliminary sketches for Pilgrimage to Hell, a project of his, possibly related to his Inferno.
History
- Barlowe, Wayne (1996). Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy. New York: HarperPrism. ISBN 0-06-105238-8.