History Creator / PatriciaAMcKillip

Patricia Anne [=McKillip=] (February 29, 1948 - May 6, 2022) was an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works. Her breakout novel was 1974's UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''[[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy Riddle Master Trilogy]]'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

She won another UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward for ''Ombria in Shadow'' and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for ''Something Rich and Strange'' and ''Solstice Wood''. Her other works include ''The Sorceress and the Cygnet'', and its sequel ''The Cygnet and the Firebird'', as well as ''The Changeling Sea'', ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', ''Winter Rose'', ''Song for the Basilisk'', ''The Tower at Stony Wood'', ''In the Forests of Serre'', ''Alphabet of Thorn'', ''Od Magic'', ''Solstice Wood'', and ''Literature/TheBellAtSealeyHead''. She has also written one ScienceFiction novel, ''Fool's Run''.

She was given a special Lifetime Achievement UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward in 2008.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rois Melior, the heroine of ''Winter Rose.''

Patricia Anne [=McKillip=] (February 29, 1948 - May 6, 2022) is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works. Her breakout novel was 1974's UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''[[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy Riddle Master Trilogy]]'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

Patricia Anne [=McKillip=] (born February 29, 1948) is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works. Her breakout novel was 1974's UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''[[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy Riddle Master Trilogy]]'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

* TwiceToldTale: In "Out of the Woods", the heroine plays a minor role in ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and spots both Merlin and Nimue, and the Lady of Shalott, from KingArthur.

Patricia A. [=McKillip=] is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works. Her breakout novel was 1974's UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''[[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy Riddle Master Trilogy]]'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

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Patricia A. [=McKillip=] is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works (mostly YA). Her breakout novel was 1974's UsefulNotes/WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''[[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy Riddle Master Trilogy]]'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

* TextileWorkIsFeminine: In "Oak Hill" Elaine is the sewer. Even Maris borrows a needle from her to do some.

* AngerBornOfWorry: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', when Talis was unhorsed and injured, and then [[FullBoarAction had to kill a boar]], his brother descends on him dragging him away and pounded him -- only when Talis recovers from his shock does he realize he's saying that he thought Talis had been killed.

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Saro and her father watched Atrix Wolfe's spell because of her curiosity -- and got caught.
* DamselInDistress: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Saro is trapped in a spell, rendered TheSpeechless, and [[FallenPrincess ends up]] a SculleryMaid in CinderellaCircumstances.

* DistressedDude: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Talis is trapped in the LostWoods. Where a woman reveals [[spoiler:that the omninous Hunter is her consort, trapped in a dire spell]].

* FallenPrincess: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Saro, after the magic renders her mute and dazed, ends up a SculleryMaid.
* FearlessFool: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', they send off Saro to deliver the tray of food to the prince in his half-ruined and haunted towers, on the grounds she wouldn't understand it enough to be afraid.
* FullBoarAction: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Talis is dazed in the woods when the dogs harry a boar near him. He kills it on instinct, and everyone is dully impressed -- after they get over the fear that he has been killed.

* TheHighQueen: ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'' has the high queen in the LostWoods who communicates with Atrix and Burne by TalkingInYourDreams.

* TheLostWoods: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', the enchanted forest swallows up Talis.

* NiceToTheWaiter: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', the SculleryMaid Saro is sent to deliver a tray of food to the prince in the haunted and half-ruined hall. She drops it; he takes the blame for startling her, especially after she had braved the ghosts and owls, and offers her a white lily. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan She goes back to the kitchen dreaming of him]].

* SculleryMaid: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Saro, after the magic had rendered her mute and dazed.
* SdrawkcabName: A characteristic of the twisted magic contained in ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe''.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', the SculleryMaid Saro is sent to deliver a tray of food to the prince in the haunted and half-ruined hall. She drops it; [[NiceToTheWaiter he takes the blame for startling her, especially after she had braved the ghosts and owls, and offers her a white lily]]. She goes back to the kitchen dreaming of him.
* TheSpeechless: Saro in ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', after the spell.
* TalkingInYourDreams: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', the [[TheHighQueen woman]] in the [[LostWoods woods]] communicates with both Atrix Wolfe and Burne this way. Later, so does [[spoiler:Talis]].

* ThickerThanWater: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Burne can not bear the thought of losing Talis, his only living relative.

* WhenTreesAttack: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', an oak tries to bury Talis underground.

* AGodAmI
* GreatBigBookOfEverything

* IGaveMyWord

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting

* RoyalBlood

* TheVoiceless

* WordsCanBreakMyBones

!!! Works with a page on this wiki:

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* TarotTroubles: In "The Fortune-Teller", Merle uses the stolen cards to fake a fortune. It does not sound like a convenient deck, but then Merle is faking all her knowledge with deliberate purpose to reassure.

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Patricia A. [=McKillip=] is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works (mostly YA). Her breakout novel was 1974's WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''[[Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy Riddle Master Trilogy]]'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

She won another WorldFantasyAward for ''Ombria in Shadow'' and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for ''Something Rich and Strange'' and ''Solstice Wood''. Her other works include ''The Sorceress and the Cygnet'', and its sequel ''The Cygnet and the Firebird'', as well as ''The Changeling Sea'', ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', ''Winter Rose'', ''Song for the Basilisk'', ''The Tower at Stony Wood'', ''In the Forests of Serre'', ''Alphabet of Thorn'', ''Od Magic'', ''Solstice Wood'', and ''Literature/TheBellAtSealeyHead''. She has also written one ScienceFiction novel, ''Fool's Run''.

She was given a special Lifetime Achievement WorldFantasyAward in 2008.

* AngerBornOfWorry: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', when Tanis was unhorsed and injured, and then [[FullBoarAction had to kill a boar]], his brother descends on him dragging him away and pounded him -- only when Tanis recovers from his shock does he realize he's saying that he thought Tanis had been killed.

* DistressedDude: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Tanis is trapped in the LostWoods. Where a woman reveals [[spoiler:that the omninous Hunter is her consort, trapped in a dire spell]].

* FullBoarAction: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Tanis is dazed in the woods when the dogs harry a boar near him. He kills it on instinct, and everyone is dully impressed -- after they get over the fear that he has been killed.

* TheLostWoods: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', the enchanted forest swallows up Tanis.

* ThickerThanWater: In ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', Burne can not bear the thought of losing Tanis, his only living relative.

* ImaginaryFriend: In her contemporary novel ''Stepping from the Shadows'' the narrator's "ugly sister" turns out to be [[spoiler:her alternate personality. And this was published at least a decade before FightClub]].

Patricia A. [=McKillip=] is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works (mostly YA). Her breakout novel was 1974's WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

Patricia A. [=McKillip=] is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works. Her breakout novel was 1974's WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'', a HighFantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: In "Oak Hill", Elaine's dye, she claims, will find its color on Maris's hair. What it does is turn it white, like a spider web.

Patricia A. [=McKillip=] is an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works. Her breakout novel was 1974's WorldFantasyAward-winning ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld'', a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. She followed that up with the very popular ''Literature/TheRiddleMasterTrilogy'', a relatively conventional fantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea.

She won another WorldFantasyAward for ''Ombria in Shadow'' and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for ''Something Rich and Strange'' and ''Solstice Wood''. Her other works include ''The Sorceress and the Cygnet'', and its sequel ''The Cygnet and the Firebird'', as well as ''The Changeling Sea'', ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', ''Winter Rose'', ''Song for the Basilisk'', ''The Tower at Stony Wood'', ''In the Forests of Serre'', ''Alphabet of Thorn'', ''Od Magic'', ''Solstice Wood'', and ''The Bell at Sealey Head''. She has also written one ScienceFiction novel, ''Fool's Run''.

!!Tropes found in her works include:

* ArrangedMarriage: In ''The Bell At Sealy Head'', Princess Ysabo is told she will marry a knight, and when she asks why she must, the knight hits her. Her servant is distraught -- that she would question it.
* BalefulPolymorph: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', it turns out [[spoiler:that the bell is the enchanted [[TheHighQueen Queen Hydria]], and the [[RavensAndCrows crows]] her enchanted knights.]]
* BlueBlood: Various families in ''The Bell At Sealey Head''. Because Raven Sproule is courting Gwyneth Blair, a merchant's daughter, Gwyneth rather suspects the Sproules are ImpoverishedPatrician.

** In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Emma keeps opening doors and finding Princess Ysabo. She never dares go in for fear that she can't come back. And one day when she opens the door to her grandmother's room, it shows the princess in a different room. She closes it, reopens it, and finds her grandmother's room.

* {{Curse}}: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', the book revolves about a wizard's curse.

* DancesAndBalls: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Dalia mulls over what to invite Miranda Beryl to: a ball or a dinner with dancing. Since she arrived because a woman is dying and she will inherit, a ball is shot down as too festive.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', sometimes Emma opens a door and meets up with the Princess Ysabo; they talk, but Emma never dares go into the room for fear the door won't open for her.

* FirstNameBasis: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', when Ridley Dow is caught by magic, Miranda Beryl gets him to the [[CoolGate door]] [[IKnowYourTrueName calling him by his first name]]. She continues to call him by it as she is getting him somewhere to rest.

* HiddenDepths: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Miranda Beryl arrives at the house of her dying relative and seems a perfect city-loving BlueBlood. Then, when Emma [[spoiler:see Ridley Dow caught in magic and is unable to rescue him, Miranda calls him by his [[FirstNameBasis first name]], which works, and arranges for him to be brought to a room with total competence and complete disregard for what happens to her clothes in the process -- and evinces knowledge about magic. Whereupon she recruits Emma to help her keep up the facade of a BlueBlood heiress waiting for her inheritance.]]
* HighClassGlass: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Mr. Moren eyes Emma with a monocle while quizzing her about where the heiress, Miranda Beryl, went. (And expresses disdain for the local squire's son while he's about it.)
* TheHighQueen:
** In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', Ysabo hears a great deal about Queen Hydria and her court. [[spoiler:In the ending, she helps rescue them and learns she was living in the queen's enchanted court.]]
** ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'' has the high queen in the LostWoods who communicates with Atrix and Burne by TalkingInYourDreams.

* IKnowYourTrueName: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', when Ridley Dow is caught in the magic, Emma's calling "Mr. Dow" does not lead him to the CoolGate, but Miranda Beryl's use of [[FirstNameBasis "Ridley"]] does.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: In ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Gwyneth suspects the Sproules are this, because Raven Sproule is courting her, a merchant's daughter.

* KnightInShiningArmor: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess]] Ysabo's home also has many knights, and part of her prescribed rituals is to perform certain services for them, filling cups with wine. She is [[ArrangedMarriage told she must marry one]], and when she asks why, he hits her. [[spoiler:However, this turn out to be false knights, not even human. The [[RavensAndCrows crows]] she feeds every day as part of the ritual [[BalefulPolymorph are in fact the true knights]], and when restored, they behave in a much more knightly manner.]]

* MandatoryMotherhood: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', Ysabo is told the reason she must submit to the ArrangedMarriage is to have a child; her mother and grandmother are baffled by her resistance, since she must have one.

* OldRetainer: In ''The Bell At Sealy Head'', Lady Eglatyne's cook is distraught as the lady is dying. She can find another place, but she had served Lady Eglatyne since she was a little girl.
* {{Pirate}}: Invoked in ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', Dalia wants Gwyneth to write about pirates. When Raven objects that pirates are uncouth and wouldn't know what to do with tea -- probably use the teapot to drink rum -- Dalia objects that she wants nice pirates who were driven to it and would be glad to give it up.
* RavensAndCrows: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', once Emma opens a door to find [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess]] Ysabo surrounded by a dozen crows. This proves to be part of a ritual which Princess Ysabo is bound to. [[spoiler:And in the end, they proved to be [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting transformed]] [[KnightInShiningArmor knights]].]]

* TheSpeechless: Saro in Creator/PatriciaAMckillip's ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'', after the spell.
* SpellBook: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', Ysabo's ritual includes turning one page in a blank book every day. When Ridley Dow appears, he shows her it filled with marvelous images, and says it is a magic book. [[spoiler:It turns out to be the book into which [[TheHighQueen Queen Hydria]]'s court has been enchanted.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', when Nemos Moore learns that Ridley Dow is his great to the nth grand nephew (how many generations is never made clear), and Dow rejects the notion of leaving, Moore offers to teach him magic -- and perhaps, in time, to think like him.

* WildHair: In ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', Emma's mother Hesper went to live in a tree in the forest. She had always been neat at her grandmother's, but now she has wild hair.

* UnableToSupportAWife: Inverted in "The Kelpie"

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: In "Oak Hill" -- though not actually pretty, definitely uncanny.