For the rest of us, Mr Boyle's pageant is likely to be a striking and memorable fantasy, and about as much of the countryside as we can probably take in one go.
But a few moments of fantasy are striking, as when she peels away layers of wallpaper to encounter, on the level of her head, an old Roman mosaic of a face — whereupon a mosaic arm emerges and wraps itself around her waist.
JH Scar Night by Alan Campbell (Tor, £7.99) Deepgate is a rambling, gothic city, suspended by chains over a bottomless abyss, entire districts at the mercy of gravity and the uneven stresses in its structure - one of the most striking images in modern fantasy fiction.
Perhaps the most striking example of the therapeutic-fantasy psychiatric drama is Alfred Hitchcock's moody, perverse 1964 thriller "Marnie," whose title character — a compulsive thief, and frigid, besides — is led to enlightenment not by a mental health professional, but by her brand-new husband, who has read a few books.
Ultima's appeal is clearly that of an escapist fantasy, yet the most striking feature of the game's brief history is its perversely recurrent social realism.
His cover art for works like Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy and Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions" anthology was a striking blend of romantic metaphor and supernatural fantasy — what one colleague called "elegantly weird".
Getting to First Base The demographics of our overrated list reveal a few striking trends about this year's crop of fantasy baseball stars.
The film morphs from grainy monochrome photography to colour, a transition deployed to equally striking effect in Wim Wender's seminal romantic fantasy Wings of Desire (released one year prior).
There was a striking visual moment when Castillo segued into a fantasy in which she was dancing atop a Carnaval float.
That one is a warm science-fiction fable and the other a dark horror film makes the similarity more striking, since both movies begin with, and build their fantasies against, the terror and fury of childhood.
