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I have an illustrated collection of Harlan Ellison stories from the 70s, which includes '"Repent", Harlequin, said the Ticktockman', one of the best short stories I've ever read.

And most of Clark Ashton Smith's stuff is out of copyright and on the web.

Link: http://www.eldritchdark.com" target="_blank">Clark Ashton Smith Short Story Archive.

Frank Herbert's first Dune book was good. But they get increasingly interminable as you go on.

Moorcock, of course. Anybody else here manages to get through all eight Jerry Cornelius books?

HG Wells was amazing. He really is. The War of the Worlds is one of the greatest things I've ever read. It says some depressing things about human nature, mind.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (is this fantasy, though?) was crap, and yet I find his stuff immensely enjoyable, particularly the John Carter: Warlord of Mars series... which also went on a bit. Silly but immense fun.

Magical Realism is an excellent form of fanatasy.

And I love GG Marquez, Borges, and all that jazz. It's the kind of stuff I write myself.

I've read Banana Yoshimoto's NP. It was OK... but I've read better.  

I rate Peake higher than Tolkien (who's the better actual writer? well, duh) too.

Obvious perhaps, but... Moorcock. Only fantasy author I read who's still alive.

Dead fantasy authors, well... there's Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs... the list goes on.

Jeff Noon's good.

I once read a book by Kim Stanley Robinson. That was good.

I still like William Gibson. He gets better and better, and I've read a couple of books by John Courtenay Grimwood. He's not bad.

Michael Marshall Smith is good too.

So. All the usual suspects, then.

Dylan Thomas pisses on them all, from his place in a very Welsh Heaven.

I'm with the Kermode.

And I even agree with the Neil Gaiman comment....

Surely nothing less than the great Cthulhu for peevs?

A new series from Spurrier and Elson?

Cool. Good on you, El Spurioso.

Fred rules!

...and here's mine!

Pants. That means that my icon's not up on the site yet?

"Entertaining America... One Moron at a time!"

fugger is good. I got it from a Mervyn peake novel.