Not surprisingly there are also comic-strips / graphic novels in the humorous fantasy genre, including Chuck Whelon's Pewfell series and the webcomics 8-Bit Theater and The Order of the Stick.

The Romanticist movement revived literary interest in folk beliefs and culture, and elves entered the 20th-century high fantasy genre in the wake of works published by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.

The fantasy genre in the 20th century grows out of 19th century Romanticism.

Approaching a given genre, certain assumed background information covers the nature and purpose of possible predictable elements of the story, such as the appearance of dragons and wizards in high fantasy, warp drives in science fiction, or shootouts at high noon in Westerns.

Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction / fantasy fandom and a type of fan labor.

: See fantasy for an account of the literary genre involving the development of common or popular fantasies.

Or when the supernatural / fantasy forces are specifically intended to frighten the audience, a fantasy film falls more within the horror genre.

This category also fuses the fantasy genre.

The " kailyard tradition " at the end of the century, brought elements of fantasy and folklore back into fashion as can be seen in the work of figures like J. M. Barrie, most famous for his creation of Peter Pan, and George MacDonald, whose works, including Phantasies, played a major part in the creation of the fantasy genre.

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers / readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

The use of " minotaur " as a common noun to refer to members of a generic race of bull-headed creatures developed much later, in 20th-century fantasy genre fiction.

Although most of the gameplay reflects a distinctly fantasy genre, the overarching plot of the series has something of a science fiction background.

Tolkien was among the pioneers of the genre that we would now call fantasy writing.

Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.

With Conan and his other heroes, Howard created the genre now known as sword and sorcery, spawning a substantial number of imitators and giving him an influence in the fantasy field rivaled by few authors.

The New Weird movement and the genre of slipstream fiction occupies a space similar to that of the New Wave movement, in relationship to the mainstream of science fiction and fantasy.

Steampunk is a genre that originated during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction.

The vampire is such a dominant figure in the horror genre that literary historian Susan Sellers places the current vampire myth in the " comparative safety of nightmare fantasy ".

As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.

Nevertheless, large subgenres of the field of fantasy have sprung from the romance genre, but indirectly, through their writers ' imitation of William Morris.

* Bianca di Angelo, in the fantasy novel The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

The Fivefold Pathway of the Soul, written by Ordol, is one of the primary religious texts of orthodox (' Quintarian ') cultures in Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasy novels The Curse of Chalion ( 2001 ), Paladin of Souls ( 2003 ), and The Hallowed Hunt ( 2005 ).

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 American adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ( 2003 ).

The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Among his other credits are Curse of the Fly, the spy-comedy Our Man in Marrakesh ( 1966 ), the fantasy Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon ( 1967 ) and the 1978 remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell.

In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola.

CBC won the lawsuit as U. S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies.

SF conventions routinely have programming on fantasy topics, and fantasy authors such as J. K. Rowling have won the highest honor within the science fiction field, the Hugo Award.

In addition to its selection for the National Registry in 2009 by the National Film Preservation Board, it won the 1958 Hugo award for that year's best science fiction or fantasy dramatic presentation.

* Kay has also won the International Goliardos Award for his work in the fantasy field.

In 2007 she won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature ; Alasdair Gray ( 1934-) whose Lanark: A Life in Four Books ( 1981 ) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow.

According to their website, Spectra publishes " science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recognizable authors " Spectra authors have collectively won 31 such awards in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, and been nominated on 132 occasions.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Millions upon millions of dollars are won and lost each year in fantasy league betting.

Benét's fantasy short story about a devil, The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1936 ) won an O. Henry Award.

He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre.

Novels published by Gollancz have been nominated for 134 science fiction and fantasy awards, and have won 28 of them.

Her novel Ash: A Secret History ( published in four volumes in the US ) was a long science fantasy epic that won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2000.

Much of his best short general fantasy work over the years was collected by Karl Edward Wagner in Worse Things Waiting ( 1973 ), which won Wellman a World Fantasy Award and revived interest in his work.

It won both the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered ) fiction, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of gender.

The film subsequently won the Melies D ' Argent Award for Best European Film at Sitges in Spain-the world's premier horror and fantasy genre festival.

After Braveheart won Best Picture, Angus acted in the independent film " Nevada " ( 1997 ), before giving the most over-the-top performance of his career in the action / fantasy " Warriors of Virtue " ( 1997 ).

René Laloux's first feature film La Planète sauvage ( The Savage Planet, 1973 ), a cutout animation science fantasy that was animated in Czechoslovakia, which won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.

It won numerous New Zealand and Australian awards, including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, and several awards at European fantasy film festivals.

It won an Aurora Award ( Canadian science fiction and fantasy ) for Best Long Form in 1999, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel that same year.

The film won the grand prize at a fantasy film festival in Paris.

Authors in this category have won a Hugo Award for science fiction or fantasy works.