Rimsky-Korsakov, a master of harmonic fantasy and orchestral color, died in June , 1908
The late Terry Pratchett was the undisputed master of comic fantasy, cheerfully channelling everything in his armoury to produce witty, immensely imaginative novels.
A war later, that master of gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake saw bombed London morph into the form a woman, wracked and twisted by her wounds and yet towering above "a world of sudden fear and firelight", broken but unbowed.
Peter Jackson is a master of brilliantly colored fantasy.
He is a master of fable and fantasy, multiple narrations, and stylistic switchings.
Matheson, a master of science fiction, fantasy and horror who said he believed not in the supernatural but "the supernormal," died Sunday of natural causes at his Calabasas home, said his son, screenwriter R.C. Matheson.
It's especially fitting that Neil Gaiman, master of gothic horror, fantasy and fiction, will be at the Library's beautiful Stephen A. Schwarzman Building this Halloween, and although the event is sold out, you can catch it live online on October 31.
Yet this grand master of the power of fantasy has suffered as its slave as well.
At the end, he exposes his own view as false and rooted in homophobia: "The whole story really was: There once was a gay man". Louis C. K. is also a master of the operatic revenge fantasy, a comedic Quentin Tarantino.
