![]() ![]() ![]() Her fantasy short fiction has been assembled in several volumes, beginning with Stealing Magic: The Complete Adventures of Magdelene and Terizan (coll 1999). Huff's fantasy singletons are in much the same mode, some of them involving characters – sometimes crosshatched from Faerie – reminiscent of those in Emma Bull's War for the Oaks ( 1987) or in various novels by Charles de Lint, and with a smooth ominousness similar to de Lint's. The Quarters sequence beginning with Sing the Four Quarters ( 1994), which is set in a competently visualized medieval fantasyland, perhaps more interestingly matches premise and narrative practice. There is a bright, graceful ingenuity about the telling of these tales. The Blood sequence beginning with Blood Price ( 1991) is Contemporary Dark Fantasy set in a Crosshatch-version of Toronto, where its (good) Vampire protagonist and his Companions prevent various evils from afflicting the City. Most of her subsequent work has also been fantasy, beginning with the Novels of Crystal sequence comprising Child of the Grove ( 1988) and The Last Wizard ( 1989). She began publishing work of genre interest with "What Little Girls are Made Of" for Magic in Ithkar 3 (anth 1986) edited by Robert Adams and Andre Norton. (1957- ) Canadian author whose wife Fiona Patton (1962- ) writes fantasy exclusively. ![]()
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