Boyer, Robert H
Entry updated 19 January 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1937- ) US teacher of English, editor and bibliographer who began to publish work of genre interest with the well-received Fantasy reprint Anthology The Fantastic Imagination (anth 1977; vt The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Fantasy 1977) edited with Kenneth J Zahorski, which besides standalone tales by James Branch Cabell, Lord Dunsany and others includes extracts from novels by C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien. Boyer collaborated with Marshall B Tymn and Zahorski on the important reference work Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1979). Further fantasy anthologies followed, always edited with Zahorski; these include the nonfiction Fantasists on Fantasy (anth 1984), assembling writings by eighteen authors about their worlds and worldbuilding. [DRL]
Robert H Boyer
born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1937
works
nonfiction
- Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (New York: R R Bowker, 1979) with Marshall B Tymn and Kenneth J Zahorski [bibliography: hb/]
- Lloyd Alexander, Evangeline Walton Ensley, Kenneth Morris: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Boston, Massachusetts: G K Hall, 1981) [bibliography: in the publisher's Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy series: hb/]
works as editor
- The Fantastic Imagination (New York: Avon Books, 1977) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: pb/]
- The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Fantasy (New York: Avon Books, 1977) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: vt of the above: pb/]
- Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy (New York: Dell/Delta, 1978) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: pb/Joel Schick]
- The Fantastic Imagination II (New York: Avon Books, 1978) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: pb/Elizabeth Malczynski]
- The Phoenix Tree: An Anthology of Myth Fantasy (New York: Avon Books, 1980) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: pb/]
- Visions of Wonder: An Anthology of Christian Fantasy (New York: Avon Books, 1981) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: pb/Peter Goodfellow]
- Fantasists on Fantasy (New York: Avon Books/Discus, 1984) with Kenneth J Zahorski [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
- Visions & Imaginings: Classic Fantasy Fiction (Chicago, Illinois: Academy Chicago, 1992) with Kenneth J Zahorski [anth: pb/Barbara Corey]
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