A Mythic and Monstrous Miscellany - Daniel Heath Justice

A MYTHIC & MONSTROUS MISCELLANY:
A SUGGESTED SAMPLING OF FANTASY, DARK SPECULATION, AND HORROR

Compiled by Daniel Justice, with substantive contributions from
Andrew Yang, Sophie Levy, Rohanna Green, and various students

NOVELS/STORIES (by author)
• L. Frank Baum, the Oz series (esp. Ozma of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz)
• Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place
• Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, From the Dust
Returned
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
• Marie Brennan, Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star May Fall
• Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
• Octavia Butler, all, but especially the Patternist, Parable, and Lilith’s Brood series
• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and
What Alice Found There
• C.J. Cherryh, The Arafel Sequence (omnibus, The Dreaming Tree)
• Susannah Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
• John Crowley, Beasts, Little, Big
• Suzette Haden Elgin, The Ozark Fantasy series
• Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
• Raymond E. Feist, Faerie Tale
• Neil Gaiman, American Gods
• David Gemmell, the Drenai and Rigante series
• Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child, Half World
• Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood
• Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads
• Shirley Jackson, any, but especially “The Lottery,” We Have Always Lived in the
Castle, The Haunting of Hill House
• Stephen Graham Jones, any, but especially The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Bleed
Into Me: A Book of Stories, Ledfether
• Stephen King, IT, Needful Things, The Stand, ‘Salem’s Lot
• Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl, When Fox is a Thousand
• Ursula K. Le Guin, any, especially The Earthsea Quartet, The Left Hand of Darkness
• Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk
• John Ajvide Lindqvist, Låt den rätte komma in/Let The Right One In
• H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” At the
Mountains of Madness
• Karin Lowachee, The Gaslight Dogs

• Gregory Maguire, Wicked
• Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
• Dennis L. McKiernan, The Iron Tower trilogy, The Eye of the Hunter
• China Miéville, any, especially Perdido Street Station and Kraken
• Michael Moorcock, the Elric series
• Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vols. 1-3, The Black Dossier
• Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast trilogy
• Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
• Edgar Allen Poe, any
• Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy
• Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, The Witching Hour
• J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series
• William Sanders, any, but especially “The Undiscovered”
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Bram Stoker, Dracula
• J.R.R. Tolkien, any, but especially The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the

Rings trilogy
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance: Chronicles and Legends trilogies
• H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine
• Chris Wooding, any, especially The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

FILM AND TELEVISION (by director/producer/creator)
• Tomas Alfredson, Låt den rätte komma in/Let The Right One In (2008)
• Ralph Bakshi, The Lord of the Rings (1978)
• Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., The Hobbit (1977), The Flight of Dragons (1982),
The Last Unicorn (1982)
• Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Tod Browning, Freaks (1932), Dracula (1931)
• Tim Burton, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Edward
Scissorhands (1990), Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy (2004), El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (2006),
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
• Walt Disney, Pinocchio (1940), Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz (1931)
• Christophe Gans, Le pacte des loups/Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
• Jim Henson, Labyrinth (1986)
• Werner Herzog, Even Dwarfs Started Small/Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen
(1970), Nosferatu the Vampyr/Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)

• Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003), King Kong (2005), The
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

• Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927), M (1931)
• David Lynch, any
• David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks (TV, 1990-1991)
• Rouben Mamoulian, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
• F. W. Murnau, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror/Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des

Grauens (1922)
• Wolfgang Petersen, The Neverending Story (1984)
• Sally Potter, Orlando (1992)
• Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride (1987)
• Barry Sonnenfeld, The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993)
• Ridley Scott, Alien (1979) (best seen with James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, Aliens)
• George Waggner, The Wolf Man (1941)
• James Whale, Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV, 1997-2003), Angel (TV, 1999-2004),

Firefly (TV, 2002-2003), Serenity (2005)

SCHOLARSHIP/CRITICISM/REFERENCE/ANTHOLOGIES
• John Clute and John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
• John Clute and Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Grace L. Dillon, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
• Donna Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto”
• Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
• Stephen King, Danse Macabre
• H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
• Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy
• Michael Moorcock, Wizardry and Wild Romance
• Sarah LeFanu, Chinks in the World Machine
• Ursula K. LeGuin, The Language of the Night (best read with her novel, The Left
Hand of Darkness)
• Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman, eds., The Intersection of Fantasy and
Native America: From H.P. Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko
• J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories” (from the volume Tree and Leaf)
• Katherine Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
• Maria Leach, ed., Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and
Legend

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