Alphabetical SFF

[BookStop]

J's

Juggernaut
Jack Frost
Joker
J.K. Rowling
J. - agent in MIB
Jabberwocky
Jake Turner - Electronic Echoes
Jones, Indiana
Jones, JV
Jordan, Robert - WOT
Jacques, Brian - Redwall
jaunt
jump
Jett - Bebop

[chrispenycate]

Alexander Jablokov, Cyril Judd.
Plot Elements jousting, jewelery Jupiter j, Juno,
Characters the Jester, Juno,
Chononaut : John Jarrold

And I'll pop in Icarus (the original "back to the drawing boars") and Isengard.

[j. d. worthington]

Jackson, Shirley -- The Haunting of Hill House (with a possibility of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts", "The Demon Lover", etc.)

Carl Jacobi -- Revelations in Black, Portraits in Moonlight, Disclosures in Scarlet

W. W. Jacobs -- "The Monkey's Paw", various other ghost stories ("My Brother's Keeper", "The Unknown", "The Interruption", etc.)

John Jakes -- creator of Brak the Barbarian, also Mention My Name in Atlantis

M. R. James -- does anyone really need to be told this one? Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories of..., A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious, "Rats", etc. Also The Five Jars, a fanciful tale for younger readers

Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw, "The Jolly Corner", etc., all collected together in The Ghostly Tales of Henry James (also a forthcoming collection of his ghost stories from Tartarus Press or Ash-Tree Press, I can't remember which)

G. P. R. James -- early writer of Eastern fantasies, praised by Washington Irving; his books include The String of Pearls (1832), The Last of the Fairies (1845), and The Castle of Ehrenstein (1854)

Edgar Jepson -- The Horned Shepherd (1904), dealing with Pan and sorcery; The Moon Gods (1930), about a lost Carthaginian colony, and "A Successful Experiment" (1921), about a cat's life-force transferred to a young girl

Robert Barbour Johnson -- "Far Below" (1939), a story published in Weird Tales magazine and picked by Dorothy McIlwraith as the best story ever published in the magazine (doubtful, but still a very good story)

John Silence: Physician Extraordinary and
Jimbo: A Fantasy (both by Algernon Blackwood)

The Jewel of the Seven Stars -- Bram Stoker

Henry Jackson -- character in the Lovecraft/Heald story "The Man of Stone"

Winifred Virginia Jackson -- collaborated with HPL on two dream-based stories (they actually shared the dream in one case, apparently): "The Green Meadow" and "The Crawling Chaos"

Arthur Jermyn -- the doomed protagonist of HPL's "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"

Gustav Johansen -- the only surviving sailor to actually see Cthulhu climb from his tomb in R'lyeh in "The Call of Cthulhu"

Dr. Richard H. Johnson -- curator of the Cabot Museum of Archaeology in the HPL/Heald story "Out of the Aeons"

Jaren -- city on the Xari River in HPL's "The Quest of Iranon"

Jewels of Feanor -- the Silmarils, playing a large part throughout Tolkien's work from The Silmarillion to The Lord of the Rings

Joy Chant -- see Red Moon and Black Mountain thread

The Cream of the Jest -- James Branch Cabell

Jerry Cornelius, Jhary-a-Conel, Jherek Carnelian, Jermays the Crooked -- all created by Michael Moorcock

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- writer of many, many great ghost stories (created the ghost story in its most famous form with "Schalken the Painter")

Judas and Other Stories -- collection of (mostly) horror tales by John Metcalfe (1931)

John Brunner -- The Jagged Orbit, Meeting at Infinity, The Dreaming Earth, Shockwave Rider, Traveller in Black, Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, "Judas", etc.

John Crowley -- Little, Big, etc.

James Blish -- Cities in Flight, Alchemy and Academe, A Case of Conscience, etc.

Langdon Jones -- The Eye of the Lens

Joe Haldeman -- Mindbridge, The Forever War, etc.

Joanna Russ -- The Female Man, The Zanzibar Cat, Picnic on Paradise, The Adventures of Alyx, We Who Are About To..., etc.

John Sladek -- Roderick, Roderick at Random, The Steam-Driven Boy, The Muller-Fokker Effect, Mechasm

James Graham Ballard -- The Drowned World, The Crystal World, The Drought, Vermilion Sands, etc., etc., etc.

Jack of Shadows -- Roger Zelazny

Jack Vance -- The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous, The Grey Prince, Lyonesse, "The Dragon Masters", "The Last Castle"

The Jargoon Pard -- Andre Norton

Julian May -- the Pleistocene Saga, Jack the Bodiless, etc.

John Carter of Mars -- character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Neil R. Jones -- the Professor Jameson series (5 books)

I know I had some first name as well as last, but it is supposed to be by association, not necessarily by one or the other. I also know I'm not thinking of some that I do know, but I'm drawing a blank at this point

[Taltos]

Some additions to 'J':

Tove Jansson - a finnish youth author (I could have sworn she was norwegian ) who is mostly known for the Moomintroll books and characters

Judas Unchained - Peter F. Hamilton book (Ok this is stretching it a bit, not very well known so far)

Graham William Joyce - four time winner of the British Fantasy Award (don't know for what exactly and too lazy to find out )

Laurence M Janifer - pseudonyme for Larry Mark Harris (written such series as Psi-power and Gerald Knave)

James Bolivar diGriz - also know as Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison (could be also under B and D )

[Brown Rat]

Jaran (Kate Elliott)
jagernauts (Catharine Asaro)
Jayne (Firefly)
jets!

[kyektulu]

I am totally stuck on J's so im moving on...

Kye's Fantastical Creatures K,

Kobald,

This humanoid is about the size of a Gnome or Halfling.
It has a furry hide and the head and tail of a dog.
Kobolds are short canine like humanoids with sometimes cowardly and sadistic tendencies.
A kobolds fur ranges from dark rusty brown to a rusy black colour and has glowing red eyes.
Kobolds were ragged cloathing favoring red and orange colours.
Kobolds usually consume plants and animals but are not adverse to consuming intelligent beings, prefaring to pounce on them in a pack rather than use honourable combat.

Kraken,

This creature resembles and immense squid with a streemlined body and two huge staring, empty eyes.
Its body is approximatly 100 foot long and is protected by thick hide and muscle.
Aggressive, cruel and highly intelligent, Krakens rule the entire undersea region. Though these behemoths are rarely seen on the surface, stories tell of ships being dragged undersea and entire islands being stripped of live by these monsters.

Krenshar,

This creature seems to combine the very worst features of a wolf and a hyena.
It has a shaggy, spotted coat a bristling mane along its spine and a long bushy tail.
The Krenshar is a strange cat-like carnivore wioth extreemly flexible skin on its head.
Males and females hunt together, preferring herd animals for foods but attacking humaniods when game becomes scarce.
Krenshars are very social among thier own kind, and occasional attempts top domesticate cubs have produced feirce, loyal companions.

[j. d. worthington]

Well, even though I'm likely to have trouble with a certain cat over mentioning one or two of these:

Keziah Mason -- "The Dreams in the Witch House" by Lovecraft

Kadath -- mountain holding the castle of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth's dreamland (The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, "The Other Gods", etc., HPL)

Kalos -- one of the sculptors in HPL's "The Tree"

Khem -- used as a variant of Khmet, ancient name for Egypt, and used as a name for lands resembling it in the works of several fantasy authors: Lumley, Howard (though his was a blending of Khem and Stygia), Lovecraft, etc.

Kingsport -- mythical New England town wherein live, among others, "The Terrible Old Man" and the inhabitant of "The Strange High House in the Mist" (HPL)

Klarkash-Ton -- playful nickname given by HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, and used as a name for an "Atlantean High Priest" in one of HPL's stories

Kementari -- "Earth-Queen", Quenya surname of Yavanna of the Valar (The Silmarillion)

Khazad-dum -- "dwarf-mansion", Moria, in LotR

Khim -- dwarf of the Noegyth Nivin, son of Mim, slain by one of Turin Turambar's companions in the First Age (The Silmarillion)

Kibil-Nala -- Khuzdul name for the Silverlode (or its springs) -- LotR

Kings -- take your pick: Arthur, Earendil, Aragorn, Kyramines, etc., not to mention Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, his first full fantasy novel

Katherine Kurtz -- creator and chronicler of the Deryni

the Kai Lung books of Ernest Bramah: Kai Lung's Golden Hours, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, etc.

Gerald Kersh -- marvellous British writer of some wonderfully dark, ironic, witty "contemporary fantasy" and horror

Franz Kafka -- "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", Amerika, etc

David H. Keller -- writer of many stories of sf and horror for the pulps, especially Weird Tales

Stephen King -- does anyone really need any more information on this one?

Rudyard Kipling -- wrote many excellent supernatural tales, including the surprisingly touching "They", about the ghosts of children

Russell Kirk -- The best of the latter-twentieth-century's writers of the classic English ghost story

Otis Adelbert Kline -- very pulpish (but often enjoyable) writer of Burroughsian and other types of fantastic adventure

Nigel Kneale -- surely I don't have to remind the English of Quartermass?

Henry Kuttner -- one of the regrettably forgotten writers of Golden Age sf and fantasy, creator of Elak of Atlantis, correspondent and sometime member of the Lovecraft Circle, husband and collaborator with his wife Catherine Louise Moore of some of the most literate and delicately ethereal science fiction of the Golden Age

John Keats -- if nothing else, for "The Eve of St. Agnes", "Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil", and "Lamia"

"Kilmeny" -- wonderful ghostly poem by James Hogg, who also wrote many others dealing with supernatural themes, including the novel The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, which influenced Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

King Solomon's Mines -- superb "lost race" fantasy by H. Rider Haggard; a novel of Allan Quartermain

The King in Yellow -- eerily effective alternate reality fantasy/horror collection by Robert W. Chambers

Kwaidan -- collection of Japanese supernatural tales by Lafcadio Hearn

Joris-Karl Huysmans -- La-Bas and A Rebours (hints of supernaturalism, but heavily influenced many supernatural/weird/horror writers after; popularized the Black Mass in fiction)

Konrad Arflane -- captain of Michael Moorcock's The Ice Schooner

[BookStop]

Kryptonite
Knut
Kismet
Karma
Knight
Knave
King (Arthur)

Kenyon, Sherrilyn - vamp romance
Kimberlin, Wade - sci-fi
Kay, Guy Gavriel - fantasy
Koontz, Dean - Horror/fantasy

[Brown Rat]

James T. Kirk
Donald Kingsbury
Damon Knight

[j. d. worthington]

Delighted to see someone include Damon Knight -- another (seemingly) forgotten titan of sf; wonderful anthologist, as well

Kate Wilhelm -- "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang", etc.

[kyektulu]

Kes - Start Trek Voyager

Klingons Start Trek

Kerr, Kathrine

Kipling - Rudyard

Koontz, Dean R

King, Steven

[chrispenycate]

Authors CM Kornbluth, Colin Kapp.
Lots of baddies seem to get “K”s : Kzin, kif,
Keys (not merely Gregory and Daniel, but the whole concept of keyism; keys to riddles, kingdoms, ) kraken,
Characters : King Kong, Kimball Kinnison.

Seem to have arrived a bit late for this one Had to cut out two thirds of the list.

[Thadlerian]

Kris Kelvin - Main character of Stanislaw Lem's wonderful Solaris. A friendly and resourceful man, slowly going mad because of all the weird things the planet is doing to him.

Kalam - Um... An assasin, in Steven Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen, I think. But I hardly get to know anything about him as a person.

[Mouse]

Kyle Haven. Nasty man from the Liveship Traders!
Kennit the pirate 'King' also from the Liveship Traders.

[Nesacat]

In trouble thou shalt be j.d.

Kranon - The former mayor. It was Kranon who enacted the law where no one may kill a cat within the city after an old man and woman were devoured by the cats of the town (The Cats of Ulthar, HP Lovecraft)

Kamog - Ephraim Waite’s secret coven name (The Thing On The Doorstep, HP Lovecraft)

K'n-yan - Blue-litten city hidden beneath the crust of the earth (The Whisperer In Darkness, HP Lovecraft)

(The) Knight’s Head - An English pub open during the mid to late 1700s, the exact whereabouts unknown, though it is near the town of Huntingdon and the Jermyn House. The Knight’s Head was the favorite haunt of Sir Wade Jermyn. There, he would tell tales of his explorations to all who would listen. In his latter years and just prior to being committed to the madhouse in Huntingdon, Sir Wade made the Knight’s Head his headquarters. (Arthur Jermyn, HP Lovecraft)

Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror - Fictional character created by Robert E Howard.

Kane - Character created by Karl Edward Wagner in a series of sword and sorcery novels and short stories between 1970 and 1985.

Prince Kheldar (Silk) - Belgariad and the Malloreon by David Eddings. He is a prince in the royal family of Drasnia, but is very glad not to be first in line.

Ket - Djelibeybian Ibis-Headed God of Justice (Pyramids, Terry Pratchett).

Khefin - The Two-Faced God of Gateways in the Djelibeybi religion (Pyramids, Terry Pratchett).

Kreeblephor - An Omnian bishop who converted a demon by the power of reason alone in the Year of the Lenient Vegetable (Small Gods, Terry Pratchett).

Ksandra - A maid at the Unseen University (Equal Rites & Moving Pictures, Terry Pratchett).

Khazad-dum - The grandest and most famous of the mansions of the Dwarves. It lay in the central parts of the Misty Mountains, tunnelled and carved through the living rock of the mountains themselves, so that a traveller could pass through it from the west of the range to the east. (Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien).

Kalimac Brandagamba - The actual form of the Hobbit name anglicised by Tolkien as 'Meriadoc Brandybuck'.

Khamul - Called the Shadow of the East, Khamul was the second of the nine Ringwraiths, second only to the Lord of the Nazgul, and referred to as Sauron's lieutenant.

Kili - Nephew of Thorin II Oakenshield, who accompanied him on the Quest of Erebor, and was slain at his side in the Battle of Five Armies.

Kingsfoil - A plant also called Athelas or Asea Aranion. Its sweet-smelling leaves possessed healing virtues, especially in the hands of descendant of the royal line of Numenor.

Kuduk - The actual Westron word that is translated as 'Hobbit' by Tolkien; it is suggested that this developed from an older word, kud-dukan, meaning 'hole-dweller'.