Philippa Semper

About The Author

Philippa Semper is a medievalist at the University of Birmingham, where she lectures on Old and Middle English Literature and modern fantasy. She has published on texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to the twenty-first century, and is currently writing about Neil Gaiman and Lord Dunsany. She has been a speaker at Hay Festival and given papers and keynote lectures at a range of conferences on fantasy. She particularly enjoys introducing students to Beowulf, chivalric romance, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Books by Philippa Semper

Heroic Fantasy Short Stories

Contributions by M. Elizabeth Ticknor, Kate O'Connor, Zach Chapman, Susan Murrie Macdonald, Michael Haynes, Voss Foster, Beth Dawkins, A. Creg Peters, Therese Arkenberg, Alexandra Renwick, Erin Gitchell, Lauren C. Teffeau, David Busboom, Amy Power Jansen, Tony Pi and Joanna Michal Hoyt / Foreword by Philippa Semper

New authors and collections. Somewhere between epic historical fantasy, sword and sorcery and Tolkien-esque fantasy exists a thick vein of storytelling that would make Robert E Howard and H.G. Wells proud. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations,...

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