The reader is called not to explain away the fantastic but to respond to it with the whole…
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Fantasy
Fiction involving supernatural elements or imaginary worlds.
14 summaries
A seven-year-old girl's favorite sock vanishes, sparking a question that pulls her into a fantastical world woven from…
Kuranes, a man of English landed gentry, created the city of Celephaïs in a dream as a child…
Fantastiska fabler is a Swedish-language collection of fables attributed to the author Ambrose.
The work is presented as a first-person account of a young man named Lucius, who, through a disastrous…
Lucian's Wonderland is a fantastical travel narrative attributed to Lucian of Samosata, the second-century Greek satirist.
The tale appears in Chapter 5 of Part One of Heinrich von Ofterdingen, told to the protagonist Heinrich…
This work is Thomas Carlyle's English translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Das Märchen, originally published in 1795.
Paz defines the fantastic as a literary mode that breaks open ordinary reality, revealing a hidden dimension of…
The text is a reference index listing contributors alphabetically by surname, with their titles and assigned articles.
The poem presents a series of strange, hallucinatory episodes narrated by a gardener who appears to be mad.
The play was originally presented for the benefit of The Society of Decorative Art at The Waldorf in…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland follows a young girl named Alice after she falls down a rabbit-hole into a…
Elric of Melniboné is the 428th emperor of the Bright Empire, a pale albino prince who is both…