List of dragons in fantasy fiction

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Fantasy fiction authors whose works have featured dragons as major plot elements include:

[edit] Scholarship

Serious academic attention to contemporary dragons remains unusual, but is slowly developing. A fair amount of the academic work on dragons can be found in the broader category of monsters and teratology (the study of monsters). Much of what is out there, in academic work, focuses on medieval manifestations of the beings.

  • Blanpied, Pamela Wharton, Dragons: A Guide to the Modern Infestation (New York: Warner, 1980; as Dragons: The Modern Infestation, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1996)
  • Brizzi, Mary T., Anne McCaffrey Title? (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1986 [Starmont House Reader’s Guides])
  • Gilmore, David, Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
  • Green, Roger Lancelyn, ed., The Hamish Hamilton Book of Dragons: Dragons in Ancient and Modern Times (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970; as A Cavalcade of Dragons, New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1970; as A Book of Dragons, Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1974)
  • Hepler, Susan, ‘“Once They All Believed in Dragons”’, in Susan Lehr, ed., Battling Dragons: Issues and Controversy in Children’s Literature (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995), pp. 220–32
  • Ingersoll, Ernest, Dragons and Dragon Lore (New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1928)
  • Lennard, John, Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007)
  • Zegel Terry, Priscilla's Majestic Myths: Whence Dragon? (New York: HarperCollins, 1993)
  • Smith, G. Elliot, The Evolution of the Dragon (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1919)
  • White, Donna R., Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (Ontario: Camden House, 1998 [Literary Criticism in Perspective])

[edit] See also

See also dragon for further dragon links, and list of fictional dragons for more uses of dragons in fiction.