Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature. Volume Two: Faf-Mid, 511-1028 by Magill, Frank N. (editor)

Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, [1983]. First edition. A fine set without dust jackets as issued. Note: Multi volume set, extra postage likely. (30961). Octavo, five volumes, cloth. The first extended review of major works of modern fantasy literature, providing essay-reviews (averaging 2000 words) of 500 important novels (including trilogies and multi-volume series, like Amber and The Book of the New Sun) and single author story collections, from Walpole's THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764-5) to fiction published in 1981 by John Crowley, Roger Zelazny, and others. Also includes nineteen essays that survey selected fantasy sub-genres, a chronology of surveyed titles, and annotated checklists of secondary material and fantasy anthologies. "A major reference work ..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-24 and Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-24. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-36. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 91.