Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy
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| Author | Neil Duskis |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Wayne Barlowe |
| Cover artist | Wayne Barlowe |
| Publisher | 1996 (HarperPrism) |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 100 |
| ISBN | 0-06-105238-8 Search this book on  . |
| 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.
With the success of the "Extraterrestrials" book, Barlowe envisioned a series of "Guides" in the same style and started working on a "Fantasy" book. Since this book's release, Barlowe has worked on others' book covers, his own books, and many movies. The rest of the series has not appeared.[1]
For the book's release, HarperCollins hosted an exhibition of Barlowe's original paintings.[2]
Characters and species[edit]
The book covers 50 creatures, in the same format of text facing illustration that Barlowe used in his Guide to Extraterrestrials.[3] Blogger Fletcher Vredenburgh at Black Gate and others have noted that the pictures were apt to suggest a book worth reading.[4][5]
- 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). Barlowe references the work of Adrienne Mayor in his description of them as mutated Protoceratops whose remains were found by Scythians.
- 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[edit]
A foldout section in the middle of the work, showing size comparisons. The last 34 pages consist of pencil sketches, including preliminary sketches for Pilgrimage to Hell, a project possibly related to his later Inferno.[3]
Reception[edit]
Gardner Dozois wrote in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection that the book was, "Among the best values in the art book field this year".[6] The book was reviewed in the Crypt of Cthulhu by Robert M. Price.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Liptak, Andrew (February 16, 2017). "Wayne Barlowe's Illustrated Aliens | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ↑ Art Now Gallery Guide: National & international. Art Now, Incorporated. October 1996. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 tarbandu (December 19, 2013). "'Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy' by Wayne Douglas Barlowe". The PorPor Books Blog: SF and Fantasy Books 1968 - 1988 (blog).
- ↑ Fletcher Vredenburgh (February 25, 2014). "For Want of a Dragon … The Dragon Lord by David Drake". Black Gate.
- ↑ Clark, Scott (2014). "Books That Lead You to More Books" (PDF). lincolnlibraries.org.
- ↑ Dozois, Gardner R. (1997). The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312157029. Search this book on
- ↑ "Search Crypt of Cthulhu". www.hplovecraft.com. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
External links[edit]
- Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy on Open Library at the Internet ArchiveLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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