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Author’s Official Webpages

Charles De Lint

Neil Gaiman

Bill Willingham 

Jim Butcher 

Pamela Dean 

Jim Butcher Book List

1. Academ’s fury  (2005)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

2. Blood rites  (2004)
by Butcher, Jim,  (Novel), (Adult).

3. Cursor’s fury  (2006)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

4. Dead beat: a novel of the Dresden files  (2005)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

5. Death masks  (2003)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

6. Fool moon  (2001)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

7. Furies of Calderon  (2004)
by Butcher, Jim,  (Novel), (Adult).

8. Grave peril  (2001)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

9. Proven guilty: a novel of the Dresden files  (2006)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

10. Storm front  (2000)
by Butcher, Jim,  (Novel), (Adult).

11. Summer knight  (2002)
by Butcher, Jim,  (Novel), (Adult).

12. White night: a novel of the Dresden files  (2007)
by Butcher, Jim, (Novel), (Adult).

Pamela Dean Book List

1 Dubious hills, The  (1994)
by Dean, Pamela, (Novel), (Adult).

2. Hidden land, The  (2003)
by Dean, Pamela,  (Novel), (Adult).

3. Juniper, Gentian, & Rosemary  (1998)
by Dean, Pamela,  (Novel), (Adult).

4. Secret Country, The  (2003)
by Dean, Pamela,  (Novel), (Adult).

5. Tam Lin  (1991)
by Dean, Pamela,  (Novel), (Adult).

6. Whim of the dragon, The  (2003)
by Dean, Pamela,  (Novel), (Adult).

Bill Willingham Graphic Novel List

1 Day of vengeance  (2005)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel),(Young Adult).

2. Fables: 1001 nights of snowfall  (2006)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

3. Fables: animal farm  (2003)
by Willingham, Bill,(Graphic Novel), (Adult).

4. Fables: Arabian nights (and days)  (2006)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

5. Fables: homelands  (2006)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

6. Fables: legends in exile  (2003)
by Willingham, Bill,(Graphic Novel), (Adult).

7. Fables: march of the wooden soldiers  (2004)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

8. Fables: Sons of empire  (2007)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

9. Fables: storybook love  (2004)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

10. Fables: the mean seasons  (2005)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

11. Fables: wolves  (2006)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

12. Jack of Fables, vol. 1: the nearly great escape  (2007)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Adult).

13. Robin/Batgirl: fresh blood  (2005)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Young Adult).

14. Robin: to kill a bird  (2006)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Young Adult).

15. Sandman presents Thessaly: witch for hire, The  (2005)
by Willingham, Bill, (Graphic Novel), (Young Adult).

Trail Fire Links

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This is a guided tour of all the links for this website, concerning  the genre of Contemporary Fantasy.

Fables:1001 Nights of Snowfall

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, is a spin off from the original series, and actually provides background about the various fairy tale characters living in New York City. Snow White is a representative for the European fables living in New York City, and is trying to establish a diplomatic relationship with the Middle East Fables.

Snow White is then captured by a deranged sultan, who marries one woman every night and then kills them, and Snow White is tricked into this situation.

Snow White then tells the sultan 1001 tales, and ultimately is able to save her life though the storytelling of the various Fables(fairy tale residents) currently residing in New York State.

Billl Willingham expertly weaves graphic novels that could be enjoyed by adults or older teens through his talent of revitalizing an interest in classic fairy tales. Willingham also uses some rather famous artists to illustrate the various stories told by Snow White.

Bill Willingham

Bill Willingham is the author of the following comic book series: Elementals, Ironwood, Coventry, Pantheon, Proposition Player, and Fables. Bill Willingham has won the Will Eisner award for best serialized graphic novel, Fables, and has also been nominated for the Will Eisner awards several times. Bill Willingham has taken traditional fairy tale stories and reinvented them in his current series of graphic novels known as Fables.

Fables falls into Urban Fantasy genre because of the fairy tale citizens who now reside in New York City, and had escaped from there homeland, which had been taken over by evil powers. The characters within Fables range from Snow White, the Wolf from Red Riding Hood, the frog prince, Cinderella, and various other characters from fairy tales.

Pamela Dean and Tam Lin

Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin is a contemporary fantasy novel set in the 1970s at a small Midwestern College, and is based upon the traditional Scottish ballad Tam Lin.

The main character, Janet Carter, is starting her first year at Blackstock College in Minnesota as an English major. The novel is full of Classical literature and theater references throughout the revelry of the faerie court hiding as professors and students.

Pamela Dean combines the ballad of Tam Lin over Janet Carter’s four years as a student at Blackstock: where a Scottish bagpiper hunts the night with his chilling airs, a sleepwalking student picks up books left by the ghost of a young woman, and Janet will be forced to confront a wold that is as unknown to her as her biology classes.

This novel is contemporary fantasy and is the type of novel that is read over a few months because of the plot line and the length of the book.

Storm Front: Book One of The Dresden Files

Harry Dresden is the main protagonist of this Urban Fantasy Novel set in the present day Chicago, where Harry Dresden is a real Wizard/private detective for the Chicago Police Department. This is the first book in the Harry Dresden Files, and Harry Dresden becomes involved with a black wizard, whom is killing people in a rather gruesome way.

Harry is paid by the Police Department to investigate unexplained crimes, and these murders are to become more then just a paycheck.  Harry will have to solve the murders before he is accused by the Governing body of Wizards of killing the people himself.

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