Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
King, Tappan
Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1950- ) US editor and writer who worked for Bantam Books before becoming editor (1986-1989) of Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine, where he tended to restrict his fantasy to tales ranging from Slick Fantasy through Dark Fantasy. His first novel was Nightshade * (1976) with his wife Beth Meacham (1951- ), tied to the Weird Heroes sequence of fantasies. Down Town: A Fantasy (1985) with Viido Polikarpus (1946- ), who also illustrated the book, is an Urban Fantasy whose young protagonist finds underneath New York an Otherworld called Down Town, whose evil ruler he defeats. [JC]
Tappan Wright King
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