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"Look, this chick, she is after you. I mean, your car is the last thing she ever saw. The dead are like that. They get fixated." The third excerpt from Sean Stewart's ghostly page-turner.
By Sean Stewart
July 23, 2004
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I never walked down a ghost road myself. There are some places we just aren't meant to go. Our second excerpt from cult novelist Sean Stewart's unearthly thriller.
By Sean Stewart
July 9, 2004
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Ghosts are all different, like demons, not all the same, like zombies. They all want something. If you've got the sense God gave a cockroach, you stay away from them.
July 2, 2004
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Overdosed on Harry? Had it with hobbits? Steven Erikson's sweeping 10-volume series, "The Malazan Book of the Fallen," might be just the fantasy epic that adult readers have been longing for.
By Andrew Leonard
June 21, 2004
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This stand-alone fantasy adds the plight of the modern American man to its mix of heroic goblins, marauding dragons and evil fairy lords.
By Andrew Leonard
June 12, 2003
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Listen to a full-cast radio production of Gaiman's twisted adaptation of "Snow White," starring Bebe Neuwirth.
November 4, 2002
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The author of "Wonder Boys" talks about his new book, "Summerland," a children's fantasy story steeped in Native American mythology and -- of all things -- baseball.
By Laura Miller
October 22, 2002
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At New York's fetish salons, it's all about fantasy -- some guys want to sniff you and others want to watch your feet move in clogs.
By Meera Atkinson
April 24, 2002
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The long-awaited movie is faithful to J.K. Rowling's book, but the fantasy isn't very fantastic and the evil just isn't dark enough.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 16, 2001
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Listen to an excerpt from the third book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
Read by Jim Dale
October 31, 2001
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The master of horror should forget hideous other worlds and stick to refrigerator magnets.
By Laura Miller
October 18, 2001
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Hear a rare recording of the fantasy master himself reading from "The Two Towers," a book from his famed trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings."
May 15, 2001
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With "The Amber Spyglass," Philip Pullman concludes the epic, heretical fantasy that began with "The Golden Compass."
By Polly Shulman
October 18, 2000
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Poem in Elvish
By J. R. R. Tolkien
October 5, 2000
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For a shy gal with secret fantasies, that strange little room in the video store can open some doors.
By Gabrielle Walter
January 22, 2000
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Graham Joyce's dark visions walk the thin line between truth and nightmare.
By Polly Shulman
January 21, 2000
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The writer-and-artist team's new bout of cultural nausea is like a tabloid that might be sold at the Whitney Museum.
By Charles Taylor
December 9, 1999
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If you like Harry Potter and love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then we've got a writer for you.
By Polly Shulman
November 19, 1999
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Romantic fantasies are indulged in Jacques Demy's touchingly outmoded musical love letter, 'The Young Girls of Rochefort.
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 18, 1998
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Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
By Gina Arnold
October 30, 1997
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Salon Magazine's Unzipped by Courtney Weaver -- Courtney Weaver argues with an East Coast friend who thinks that West Coast men are congenitally passive.
By Courtney Weaver
July 16, 1997
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It's easy to activate it -- just mention your fantasy of being with two men to your lover.
By Courtney Weaver
July 9, 1997
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"Kama Sutra" is bogus history and cheesy storytelling, but what the hell, it's sexy.
By Laura Miller
April 7, 1997
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