#witch world

The “Illustrated Fantasy Book Guide” is a magazine-format book (or mook) released in 1989 by the publisher of ファミコン必勝本 “Famicon Winning Book”, an NES gaming magazine. The mook lists 37 works of fantasy originally written in English except for “Ficciones” by Borges. The editors of “Famicon Winning Book” were fond of the Wizardry port to the NES, which is my explanation for their interest in this stuff. In any case, they created the best Appendix N so to speak of fantasy translated into Japanese that I have yet found. The Japanese titles are provided below to aid the online searches of would-be buyers.

Images/Text courtesy of Japanese Tabletop RPG

I wish I could find a complete set of scans for this book!

Full list of books featured under the cut.

Witch World covers by Jack Gaughan

Witch World, 1963

Web of the Witch World, 1964

Three Against the Witch World, 1965

Year of the Unicorn, 1965

Warlock of the Witch World, 1967 (same cover was reused for Spell of the Witch World, 1972

Sorceress of the Witch World, 1968

The Crystal Gryphon, 1972