Icons of the Fantastic

Amanda Zehnder is Chief Curator and Department Head of Museums at the University of Delaware.David Brinley is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware.Guillermo del Toro is renowned filmmaker, writer, and artist, who has directed over a dozen films and created numerous television shows, including The Strain (2014–2017) and Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022).Kevin J. Anderson has published more than 190 books, fifty-eight of which have been national or international bestsellers. Anderson is the director of the graduate program in Publishing at Western Colorado University, and he and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press.Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a longtime book columnist for The Washington Post, and the author of the memoir An Open Book (2003), five collections of essays, and the critical appreciation On Conan Doyle (2012).Michael Whelan is one of the world’s premier painters of imaginative realism. For more than forty years, he has created book and album covers for authors and musicians like Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Brandon Sanderson, the Jacksons, and Meat Loaf.Stephen D. Korshak is the owner, along with his wife Alma, of the Korshak Collection of Illustrations of Imaginative Literature.Margaret Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.Ashley Rye-Kopec is the Curator of Education and Outreach at the University of Delaware Museums.Rachael Kane is the Learning and Engagement Manager at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts.Lauren Stump is the Curator of the Korshak Collection.Lisa Yaszek is Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech.Gary K. Wolfe is emeritus Professor of Humanities in Roosevelt University’s Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies.​

• Guillermo Del Toro, Foreword: A Cabinet that Holds the WorldKevin J. Anderson, PrefaceMichael Dirda, Introduction to the Korshak CollectionStephen D. Korshak, The Korshak Collection of Illustrations of Imaginative Literature: A Collector’s JourneyStephen D. Korshak, Shasta PublishersDavid M. Brinley, The Korshaks: A Legacy of InfluenceMargaret D. Stetz, Aubrey Beardsley: The Illustrator Who Would Not “Illustrate”Ashley Rye-Kopec, “A Hint and an Opportunity”: Goblins, Fairies, and Mysterious Creatures in Arthur Rackham’s The Sleep of Rip Van WinkleAmanda T. Zehnder, The Blue of Deep Water and the Blue of a Winter Night’s Sky: The Poetry of Word and Image in the Art of Edmund DulacRachael Kane, Knights of Old: Władysław Benda's Skeletal HussarsLauren Stump, JosÉ Segrelles: The Spanish Master of Mystical and Fantastical IllustrationLisa Yaszek, Margaret (Johnson) Brundage: First Woman of Fantasy ArtDavid M. Brinley, Unveiling the Enigmatic Genius of Hannes BokDavid M. Brinley, Interview with Michael R. WhelanGary K. Wolfe, Afterword: A Dialogue of Things UnseenIllustrated Checklist of the Full Korshak CollectionContributors