Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy

Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy

Author	Wayne Barlowe
Illustrator	Wayne Barlowe
Cover artist	Wayne Barlowe
Publisher	1996 (HarperPrism)
Media type	Print
Pages	100
ISBN	0-06-105238-8
OCLC	34742199
Dewey Decimal	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.