Fantasy fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
Swamp Pizza, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_reine_kelsey.pdf
Overview
"Concrete's cooking in Opelousas, Louisiana and JOSELINE (16) desperately wants to forget about her troubles at home with a negligent mother and have the best Summer of her life with her two best-friends RODGER (15) and MIRACLE JOY (15). After what seems like a typical day at work cooking pizzas and selling beer to the trashy locals at the “great value” amusement park, the three friends get an alert that the park is on lockdown. Through the walkie talkie communication system they are alerted...
Dates:
2022
Taming Flesh, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_hamilton_michael.pdf
Overview
"This thesis project is an excerpt from the novel in progress "Taming Flesh". With a blend of horror, paranormal, and fantasy genres, the goal of this novel is to provide an entertaining commentary on gender roles and toxic masculinity. In an alternate 1920s America, beef has been banned and is considered holy. It's also believed to be the source of monstrous transfigurations only experienced by men. Despite abstinence from beef, Hedon has developed a set of horns and his skin has turned...
Dates:
2020
The Brimstone Princess / The Flick, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_af_geijerstam-lindberg_liliana.pdf
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"The Brimstone Princess is an hour long fantasy adventure that follows Princess Antonina as she tries to save her kingdom from ruin. After the assassination of her brother, Crown Prince Fredrick, she sets off on a journey across the world to find her younger sister Grace and bring her home before assassins can close in on her too. Her faithful guard Sir Hamford and his page Keven join her on this clandestine mission, unaware of the dark truths that will emerge along the way, and the...
Dates:
2024
The Burning Sands, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_firestine_marisa.pdf
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"The Burning Sands' features two distinct races locked in a simmering, centuries-long conflict. Spara is a half-wind, the offspring of those two races: the human-like dathrals and the subha, a race of wind-wielding, genderless people. Raised among the subha but too dathral bodied to truly belong, Spara lives isolated and alienated. Shi dedicates xyr life to serving Kingship, the ruler of xyr land, in hopes of earning a place within subha society. Yet obedience to Kingship leads to harm for...
Dates:
2020
The Cartographer's Apprentice, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_smith_alanna.pdf
Overview
"On the eve of her engagement party, Veralyn LaStrauss, apprentice to master cartographer Richard Grayson, discovers her mentor has been kidnapped. His half-brother Matthias is the primary suspect. Named in the ransom note, Veralyn is tasked with finding a mysterious map called the Tagon Map to exchange for Master Grayson's return. During her search, she discovers a note from Master Grayson warning that dangerous magic—tied to the crystal containing the map—has infected her home city of Port...
Dates:
2021
"The Descendant of the Zonax", 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_alexis_jordi.pdf
Overview
"Twenty-five-year-old twin sisters, Delta and Sanilia, descendants from the planet Ludar, find themselves separated after a teleportation accident. Their journey to find their way back to each other takes them through The Haven, an underground terraformed refuge for Ludarians on Earth, and Freidton, a small Ohio town with less than 1,500 residents. Along the way, Sanilia meets Rena, a soldier within The Haven, who is struggling with her sexuality; Delta meets Jordan, the son of the Sheriff...
Dates:
2024
The DragonFyre Chronicles: Striking Flame, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_rivera_benjamin.pdf
Overview
"Striking Flame is a debut fantasy novel, focusing on the conflict between two dragon brothers. The work is an examination of race relations through a dragon's perspective in an alternate version of our world. Barrios, the main protagonist, believes that peace between dragons and humans is possible, where his older brother Brontaren views them with distrust and growing hostility. Barrios seeks to bring Brontaren to his view, though problems old and new may thwart his success. In addition to...
Dates:
2022
The Element Story, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_landon_sydney.pdf
Overview
"Rowana Griffin, a student just accepted into her dream-career training program, grew up in a small village on the edge of a magical barrier separating the Human Realm from the Fae. But when she is charged with breaking her Realm's ultimate law, performing magic, she is banished from her home and everything she knows. Now alone in the Fae Realm, she must learn how to navigate a world of high-class elemental magic trainers and even higher-class Fae royals. But there's a darkness brewing...
Dates:
2024
The Emrys School of Art, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_wong_jennifer.pdf
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"As a senior at Morgan University, Grace Huang often feels more comfortable with the paintings than with her classmates. When she sneaks into a party thrown by the distinguished Emrys School of Art, she finds a grisly tableau: a portrait that screams while its subject is bleeding to death. When Grace is invited to join the Emrys School of Art, she can’t refuse. She finds a place to belong with fellow students and artists. As Grace digs into the Emrys School, she uncovers the secrets of magic...
Dates:
2023
The Eternal Light & the Everlasting Dark, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_mcdaniel_jacob.pdf
Overview
"This novel is an exerpt of a longer body of work that I intend to publish, covering "Part One" of the work. This novel is a work of fiction in the high fantasy genre, intending to act as a homage to old style of fantasy and the tropes found within, embracing the old cliches for a new audience. As such, the work showcases the traditional hero's journey with tropes such as a young farmboy turned hero, a magic sword, a dark overlord, and an epic journey filled with a myriad of locations. This...
Dates:
2024
The First of Them, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_snow_jennifer.pdf
Overview
"The First of Them is a horror-themed science-fantasy fiction novel centered around a trans woman and her estranged twin brother. After strange happenings bring them back together, Collette and her brother Ethan must find out what connections lie between a psychologically deteriorating hospital patient and a missing USGS researcher as they deal with their own personal traumas, sibling rivalry, uncommon seismic events, and apparent paranormal unknowns. In the end, ties that bond them together...
Dates:
2023
The Fountain of Youth (A Novel), 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zolfonoon_wesline.pdf
Overview
"The year is 2078 and Mozaik Hayes has just begun his position at REbirth, a company devoted to individual beauty as well as the growth of family through the use of birthing pods. Mozaik is the first of second-tier citizen to ever work at such a prestigious company, and he is the first to ever uncover something so terribly earth-shattering with in it. Mozaik must now decide if he should reveal his discovery to the people he trusts the most or keep what he has seen to himself and pretend...
Dates:
2019
The Fox Merchant, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_benz_allison.pdf
Overview
"This fantasy novel centers around Sionnach, a cursed fox god of trade, and Maia, a deaf mage snatched from her homeland as a child. After ten years of servitude, Maia secretly learns magic and escapes onboard Sionnach's wagon. He soon discovers that her deafness makes her immune to his manipulative powers. The two set off on their journey, suspicious of one another and unable to communicate. But when Sionnach saves Maia's life, their relationship changes. Maia demands that Sionnach take her...
Dates:
2020
The Fury of Creation, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_malpino_james.pdf
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"What if creation itself was furious at its own existence? The Fury of Creation is a novel in progress that seeks to address this intriguing question, framed through a dark medieval fantasy tale of war, betrayal, trauma, and redemption. Three distinct characters maneuver their way through the unforgiving world of Hymn, each of them trying to find meaning in their lives while dealing with the ghosts of their pasts. And just out of sight, from the shadowed corners of the world, sinister forces...
Dates:
2024
The Gates of Horn, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_laughlin_sophia.pdf
Overview
"The Gates of Horn is an Adult Fantasy novel complete at 128,000 words. Death has smothered the Lucan Empire. While Sisenna, daughter of the emperor, mourns the death of her youngest brother, Sisenna's power-hungry uncle sends assassins to kill her parents—and very nearly Sisenna herself. Ousted from her seat of power, Sisenna is tossed into the streets with nothing but her loyal bodyguard and her own wits to protect her. Thirsting for vengeance, she sneaks out of Luca and across the...
Dates:
2023
The Ghosts We Eat, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_prusko_gabrielle.pdf
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"The Ghosts We Eat is an original collection of short fiction that takes place within a world just like ours alongside all too familiar monsters and magic living among us. Filled with brutal beauty and sprinkled with dry unflinching humor, this particular compilation explores hauntings that take on various shapes. From cannibals to aliens to young women redefining their constructed places within sex and intimacy, Prusko uses her stories to investigate how we face trauma head on whether it be...
Dates:
2024
The Gulch, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_sztobryn_alicia.pdf
Overview
"This thesis contains a synopsis and the first 13 chapters of The Gulch, a YA dystopian novel set in a future society where displays of emotion are deemed dangerous and punishable, an attempt to stem the depression and suicide that run rampant. The protagonist, 18-year-old Simon, struggles to contain his emotions and garners attention from the Minister, the strict leader of his city. Simon watches those closest to him buckle under the pressures of the city, and his mental health...
Dates:
2022
The Hauntlands, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_bloem_noah.pdf
Overview
"The Hauntlands is a slyly comedic fantasy adventure that follows four distinct characters as they move through a wild, magic, and often absurd world. Though coated in a paint of the odd, silly, and fantastical, the narrative's ultimate focus centers on the relationships characters develop even in adverse circumstances. Each character must deal with their own personal struggles, whether that be searching for one's lost memories or dealing with a newfound power, while simultaneously facing...
Dates:
2021
The Invisible Guests, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_hamedi_leyla.pdf
Overview
"It's believed that our souls can linger for seven days after death. When Ziya Roshan's older sister Yalda kills herself, Ziya sets off to find Yalda's soul and bring her back before her time is up. She finds herself in an in-between world where the fairy tale demons she knows from childhood stories keep watch over the souls, "the invisible guests." Just like all stories, there's a price. To return with her sister, she must complete three tasks. Ziya completes each with the help of a...
Dates:
2024
The lost cavern, 1999
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From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1999