fantasy intended for adults rather than children
Associated chiefly with the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, an imprint edited by Lin Carter and published by Ballantine Books from 1969 to 1974, consisting largely of reprints of classic works of fantasy literature.
Third, I think, comes a second fantasy—adult fantasy…. We find Lord Dunsany and maybe a handful of others.
Surely The Prisoner of Zenda is adult fantasy, a miracle world for romantics of all ages, where the impossible comes to pass in most convincing fashion.
It’s been too long since enough adult Fantasy with a punch was available, and we felt somebody should do something about it. We’ve decided to do it!… Don’t miss the first issue of Fantasy Magazine at your favorite newsstand now!
A Ballantine Adult Fantasy.
I have left many marvelous dreams alone, for if this book sells successfully, there may be another volume in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series drawn from the dreams of Mānā-Yood-Sushāi.
The new magazine of fantasy was launched with the issue of March, 1939. Campbell’s circle responded eagerly to his request for adult fantasy.
Donald A. Wollheim…has done more to encourage fantasy and science-fantasy in this country during the lean years before ‘adult fantasy’ became respectable.
Therefore all literature is escape, and the charge that escape is somehow pernicious is a ‘jealous argument of very ancient lineage indeed’, used by ‘entrenched intellectual privilege’ against popular literature from the time of Elizabethan drama to the present. And we might note that this argument has been used successfully in modern times to nearly eradicate adult fantasy from serious attention until very recently.
Young-adult horror novel, first edition; a new entry by a British writer who has written some adult fantasy in the past.
I wrote six books, six big, chunky adult fantasy books of a similar sort of tone: gritty, dark, cynical, violent…and I thought now’s the time to write some gritty, dark, cynical, violent YA books.
antedating 1932
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