The Economist (US), June 21st, 1997
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY. By John Clute and John Grant. Orbit; 1,049 pages; K50
NOW best known as a collaborator of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, E.M. Forster was also something of a fantasist. His shorter fiction reveals an intriguing predilection for the supernatural. He even thought of dedicating a collected edition to Hermes Psychopompus, "messenger, thief and conductor of souls to a not too terrible hereafter" and-to borrow one of the fascinating insights of this new encyclopedia-a character of particular interest to homosexuals of the day. Forster also famously bemoaned the whol...
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