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critics who wrote fantasy
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Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price (born 1954)

theologian, essayist, podcaster, illustrator, literary critic

  • Gardner–Webb University, Montclair State University

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Michael O. Tunnell
Michael O. Tunnell (born 1950)

educator, critic

  • Northern Illinois University, Brigham Young University

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The Prydain companion
Wishing moon
Moon without magic
Wishes on the moon
Candy Bomber
The joke's on George
Halloween Pie
Mailing May
Beauty and the beastly children
The children of Topaz
Brothers in valor
Mailing May
Chinook!
Children's Literature
School Spirits
Teaching Nonfiction Writing A Practical Guide Strategies And Tips From Leading Authors Translated Into Classroomtested Lessons
Children's Literature, Briefly
The Story of Ourselves
Children's literature, briefly
Children's Literature, Briefly
Children's Literature Database and Booklet
Desert Diary
The children of Topaz
If the Shoe Fits
Wishing Moon
Candy bomber
Childr Lit and Chld Lft Behd
Children's Literature with Video Analysis Tool -- Access Card Package
Children's Literature, Briefly and Windows Data Disk Package
Childrens Literature Briefly and Norton/Land, Literacy Strategies Package
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman (born 1969)

journalist, literary critic

  • Harvard University, Harvard College

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Dangerous Women
The Magicians
Unfettered
the magicians land
The Magician King
Dangerous Women 2
The Magician'S Land
Magician King
The Magician's Land
The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set
Magicians Bk. 1
The magician king
Magician's Land : (Book 3)
Magician King : (Book 2)
Magician's Land
Literary Wonderlands
Magician King
Other Worlds Than These
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Codex
Codex
Warp
El Codice Secreto
La tierra del mago
When I first held you
The Magicians Original Graphic Novel
Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism
The Silver Arrow
El bosque mágico
Codex
Golden Swift
Kraina czarodzieja
O CÓDICE SECRETO
Czarodzieje
WARP
Fillory. Tom 2. Król magii
Magos
El bosque mágico
Magician King : (Book 2)
Golden Swift
El códice secreto
Los magos
Büyücü Kral
Warp
Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Bright Sword
Codex, le manuscrit oublié
Flecha Plateada
Silver Arrow
Fic
El bosque magico
La flecha plateada
Tierra del Mago
Fillory - die Zauberer
Golden Swift 5c (B4G1) Solid Prepack
Buyuculer
Magician's Land : (Book 3)
Grossman Tie-In 18-Copy Mixed Floor Display
Magicians : (Book 1)
Mapa de Los Instantes Perfectos
Silver Arrow
Büyücünün Diyari
Kraina czarodzieja
Król magii
The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
El bosque mágico
Gümüs Ok
El códice secreto
Les magiciens, Tome 3 : La terre du magicien
Connector
The Masters Review
Anthony Boucher
Anthony Boucher (1911-1968)

literary critic, journalist

  • University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley

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The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
The compleat werewolf, and other stories of fantasy and science fiction
Beyond the barriers of space and time
The best from Fantasy and science fiction
The Best from Fantasy and science fiction
The best from Fantasy and science fiction
More New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Devil's Generation
Microcosmic Tales
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction
More New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 13
Fifty short science fiction tales
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
Murder for Halloween
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series
A treasury of great science fiction
Isaac Asimov Presents Great Science Fiction #13 (1951)
The Sport of crime
Space Mail, Volume II
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 22
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)
Exeunt murderers
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 23
Profile by Gaslight
Murder in the Casbah and Other Mysteries
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 10
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 11
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 8
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 9
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 14
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1957; Featuring *Visit to a Small Planet*
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 12
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 5
The New Adventures Sherlock Holmes - Volume 4
Murder by Moonlight and Other Mysteries
Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- volume 5, 1943
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 17
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 6
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 19
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 13
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 24
13 Horrors of Halloween
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 20
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 7
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 16
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 26
The New Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 21
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 15
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Homes - Volume 1
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 25
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 18
Colonel Warburton's Madness & Other Mysteries
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 3
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 2
Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds
The case of the Baker Street irregulars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1952
The Unfortunate Tobacconist & Other Mysteries
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Eighth Series
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
Rocket to the Morgue
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
The Compleat Boucher
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)
Four-and-Twenty Bloodhounds
The Unknown
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two
The Best from Fantasy and science fiction fifth series
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Case of the Seven of Calvary
Rocket to the Morgue
The NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES GIFT SET VOLUME 6 (Sherlock Holmes)
The pocket book of true crime stories
The compleat werewolf, and other stories of fantasy and science fiction
Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
The casebook of Gregory Hood
the case of the seven of calvary, Nine times nine, Rocket to the morgue
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1953
The Compleat Werewolf
Nine Times Nine
Rocket to the Morgue (American Mystery Classics)
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One
Case of the Crumpled Knave
The Compleat Boucher
The case of the seven of calvary
The NEW ADVENTURES SHERLOCK GIFTSET #2 (Sherlock Holmes)
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 3
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1952
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1957
Great American detective stories
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 5
The NEW ADVENTURES SHERLOCK GIFTSET #1 (Sherlock Holmes)
Far and Away
The case of the crumpled knave
Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1952
Case of the Seven Sneezes
Nine times nine
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Compleat Werewolf
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1955 (Volume 9, No. 2)
Exeunt Murderers
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 4 (Gift Set)
Seven of Calvary
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1957
The Case of the Baker St. Irregulars
Case of the Solid Key
Multiplying villanies
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 21 CS
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1952 (Volume 3, No. 4)
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 20 CS
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol 2 : CS
The NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTOR'S EDITION
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 19 CS
The case of the crumpled knave
Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction
Rocket to the Morgue (Dell Keyhole, 591)
The New adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 10 : CS
Far and away
Ellery Queen
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 4 CS
The case of the seven of Calvary
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 9 : CS
The New Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 24 : CS
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol 16 : CS
Four Novels (Black Box Thriller S)
The Best from Fantasy and science fiction sixth series
A treasury of great science fiction
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Rocket to the morgue
The PR NEW ADV HOLM 25 CS
Chingis Khaany takhilgyn su̇m
New tales of space and time
New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Eureka years
I︠A︡vuu bagsh
Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1953 (Volume 4, No. 5)
The quintessence of Queen
The case of the solid key
The Living Doll/The Disappearing Scientists (New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Thomas Burnett Swann
Thomas Burnett Swann (1928-1976)

poet, literary critic

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Faeries
Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels
Bakers Dozen
A. A. Milne
Ernest Dowson
The heroine or the horse
Flying Saucers
Will-o-the-wisp
Day of the Minotaur
Wolfwinter
The minotaur trilogy
Green Phoenix (Daw UQ1027)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories #2 [DAW 205]
The Not-World
The Weirwoods
Ernest Dowson (Twayne's English Authors Series)
The classical world of H.D.
The Tournament of Thorns
Cry Silver Bells
The heroine or the horse
The Gods Abide
The forest of forever
Queens walk in the dusk
The ungirt runner
Driftwood
Wombats and moondust
How are the mighty fallen
Alas, in Lilliput
Wonder and whimsy
The Minikins of Yam
Moondust
Lady of the Bees
Green phoenix
Green Phoenix
The classical world of H.D.
José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014)

poet, essayist, translator, singer, literary critic

  • National Autonomous University of Mexico

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En resumidas cuentas
John Gardner
John Gardner (1933-1982)

translator, essayist, literary critic, journalist, biographer

  • University of Detroit Mercy, Washington University in St. Louis

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Grendel
The sunlight dialogues
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: notes
On moral fiction
The forms of fiction
The wreckage of Agathon
Mickelsson's Ghosts
Freddy's book
The Art of Fiction
In the suicide mountains
Conversations with John Gardner
On writers and writing
The alliterative Morte Arthure
Jason and Medeia
The construction of the Wakefield cycle
The poetry of Chaucer
October light
On becoming a novelist
The construction of Christian poetry in Old English
The art of living, and other stories
Licence to kill
A child's bestiary
Freddy's book
The life & times of Chaucer
Le morte d'Arthur
Gudgekin, the thistle girl, and other tales
Dragon, dragon, and other tales
The king of the hummingbirds, and other tales
Gilgamesh
The king's Indian
The Gawain-poet
Lies! lies! lies!
Stillness ; and, Shadows
The wreckage of Agathon
Jason and Medeia
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Nickel mountain
The king's Indian
Nickel mountain
The complete works of the Gawain-poet
Gilgamesh
Le morte Darthur
The art of living
Poems
The old men
L' homme-soleil
OsenniÄ­ svet
Oktoberlys
The wreckage of Agathon [by] John Gardner
The sunlight dialogues [by] John Gardner
The resurrection
The thistle
On writers and writing
Vlemk, the box-painter
On moral fiction
Deraḳon, deraḳon ṿe-ʻod sipurim
Grendel
Complete works of the Gawain-poet
Har ha-niḳel
The Complete works of the Gawain-poet
MSS
La symphonie des spectres
ha-Sefer shel Fredi
The garden of weapons
Complete works of the Gawain-poet
Nicholas Vergette, 1923-1974
Franco Forte
Franco Forte (born 1962)

journalist, literary critic, editor, editing staff, lecturer, translator

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La compagnia della morte
Carthago
Come partecipare ai premi letterari (e vincere)
Il segno dell'untore
Roma in fiamme
I bastioni del coraggio
Il prontuario dello scrittore