* 1938 – John Bellairs, American mystery author ( d. 1991 )

In later years he produced cover illustrations and interior artwork for many children's books by John Bellairs, as well as books begun by Bellairs and continued by Brad Strickland after Bellairs ' death.

He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.

* John Bellairs ( 1938 – 1991 ), author of horror fiction for children and young adults

* New Zebedee, a fictional town which appears in children's works by John Bellairs and Brad Strickland

A fictional desk designed by Furness is featured in the John Bellairs novel The Mansion in the Mist.

* A treasure hunt for the Urim and Thummim forms the central plot of the John Bellairs novel The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost

Michael Scott was the teacher of the wizard Prospero in John Bellairs ' novel The Face in the Frost.

They included William Swainson, William Kenny, Frederick Whitaker, Ralph Richardson, John Charles Watts-Russell and Edmund Bellairs.

* Prospero, the name of the wizard protagonist of John Bellairs ' novel The Face in the Frost

In 1992 Strickland completed four novels begun by the late John Bellairs ; beginning in 1996 he has created his own stories using the already-established characters.

Particularly famous is the Pratt Mantle, relatively easy but a classic mantle ; the Pratt Overhang, a classic off-width, an adjacent John Gill face problem, and the forty foot Monkee Traverse.

The field dates from the 1944 classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.

Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.

In addition to 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead, as well as 2003's remake of both Herschell Gordon Lewis ' cult classic 2001 Maniacs and the remake of Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was also the 2007 Rob Zombie written and directed remake of John Carpenter's Halloween.

John Kenneth Galbraith made a classic distinction between " private affluence and public squalor " in the USA, and private squalor and public affluence in ( for example ) Europe, and there is a correlation between individualism and degrees of public-sector intervention and taxation.

He played one of Lee Marvin's villainous henchmen in the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with James Stewart and John Wayne.

The first complete mathematical formulation of this approach is generally credited to John von Neumann's 1932 book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, although Hermann Weyl had already referred to Hilbert spaces ( which he called unitary spaces ) in his 1927 classic paper and book.

The publication of John Newbery's compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle ( London, c. 1765 ), is the first record we have of many classic rhymes, still in use today.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

The classic John Updike essay " Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu " chronicles this event and is often mentioned among the greatest pieces of sports writing in American journalism.

With this project, they reunited with original producer John Leckie to record a series of affectionate parodies that indulged their love of classic 1960s psychedelic music.

* The Thousand Nights and a Night in several classic translations, including unexpurgated version by Sir Richard Francis Burton, and John Payne translation, with additional material.

Eastwood directed and starred in White Hunter Black Heart ( 1990 ), an adaptation of Peter Viertel's roman à clef, about John Huston and the making of the classic film The African Queen.

The four-month 1910 North Atlantic expedition headed by Sir John Murray and Johan Hjort was at that time the most ambitious research oceanographic and marine zoological project ever, and led to the classic 1912 book The Depths of the Ocean.

The multi-million dollar TV song & dance extravaganza was filmed around the world and included production numbers of classic songs from the era, lavish costumes and guest performances from Jones, John Wayne and Bob Hope.

On Jones ' 70th birthday, 7 June 2010, the single " Burning Hell ", a cover of the John Lee Hooker classic, from the forthcoming Praise & Blame album, was released.

Her grave was placed in the chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist in a classic wooden sarcophagus.

In the biography John Coltrane: His Life and Music, published in 1999, Lewis Porter noted that ODJB's classic, " Margie ", was a " specialty " of John Coltrane, a song he performed regularly in his early career.

* abadie. co. uk, currently the only book of classic John Hinde postcards with the senders messages transcribed

* Accounts of the South Sea Bubble, John Law and the Mississippi Company can be found in Charles Mackay's classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ( 1843 )-available from Project Gutenberg.

Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis's " Milestones " ( 1958 ), Kind of Blue ( 1959 ), and John Coltrane's classic quartet from 1960 – 64.

: John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin reinterpreted elements of the Doctor Syn story as his " No Quarter " fantasy sequence in Led Zeppelin's concert film The Song Remains the Same.

In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.

Influential critics, above all John Ruskin, far from denouncing mediaeval obscurantism, praised the imagination and fantasy exemplified by its Gothic architecture, influencing the Pre-Raphaelites.

Following the work of Robert Bly in the Mythopoetic men's movement, John Rowan proposes the Horned God as a " Wild Man " be used as a fantasy image or ' sub-personality ' helpful to men in humanistic psychology, and escaping from ' narrow societal images of masculinity encompassing deference to women and paraphillia.

* In the fantasy novel Little, Big by John Crowley, the character Theodore Bramble considers " a peculiar geography I can only describe as infundibular ...

Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Baum would work primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times ( all before he moved to California ) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.

This is mainly due to a last-minute mix of two different game designs: lead level designer John Romero wanted to make a dark fantasy beat ' em up / RPG hybrid game, while level designers Tim Willits and American McGee wanted to make a more futuristic, Doom-like game.

The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories ( which may have no particular scientific or futuristic component ), and even literary stories that contain fantastic elements, such as the work of Jorge Luis Borges or John Barth.

Taxi Driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley, Jr. which triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

The spy film genre, which is mainly the subgenre of thriller and action, deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

The subgenre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

Landscape architect Noakes enters, shortly accompanied by Captain Brice and Lady Croom, who then proceed to discuss the proposed modifications to the gardens, with Thomasina drawing a picture of an imaginary hermit ( in the biblical style of John the Baptist ) onto Mr. Noakes's picture of the garden ( with its fantasy hermitage ) as he sees it in the future.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters and settings with invented history and fantasy, as in the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon respectively.

Also in 1974, TSR published Warriors of Mars, a miniatures rules book set in the fantasy world of Barsoom originally imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his series of novels about John Carter of Mars, to which Gygax paid homage in the " Preface " of the first edition of D & D.

The setting was somewhat comparable to the Barsoom of the John Carter novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in that it was a barbaric fantasy world populated by sword-wielding heroes who encountered strange alien beings and technologies.

* John Morressy, science fiction and fantasy writer ; professor of English at Franklin Pierce College

* John Brown, fantasy author

These earlier accounts clearly inspired the popular medieval fantasy The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, which also mentions the Fountain of Youth as located at the foot of a mountain outside Polombe ( modern Kollam ) in India.

It is a fantasy comedy christmas film that was directed by John Pasquin.

Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction / fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman and Robin Williams ( credited as Ray D. Tutto ).