Can't believe no-one has said Bill Adama yet.

Helen Mirren as Victoria Winslow in the RED moviverse

I first read A Wrinkle in Time in third grade, which explained the differences between the first, second, third, and fourth dimensions. I'd never heard of that before, and it was fascinating.

"The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" — the concert film incorporating footage from two rock/comedy shows for Amnesty International that involved Cleese (who directed the comedy on stage), Chapman and Palin (who does a filmed outro as a janitor). That may not count, but it is fun to see Cleese play straightman to Peter…

Does anyone else remember the original Salem's Lot mini-series? The kid at the window, the dude in the rocking chair, scared the SHIT outta me.

Not book - short story. "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream." Single most disturbing piece of literature I've ever read.

Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny. Nothing beats a twisted time travel novel that includes Hitler, Doc Savage, and a robot death machine that makes clay pots on the side.

Okay, now I'm really going to show my age, but how about some old-school love for the Fisher Price Castle? It had a dragon, real foam beds, a horse and carriage for the royal family, a hidden room behind the staircase, a working drawbridge, and a trap door from the tower that dropped you down into the dungeon…

Some of my forays into true fantasy were:

"The Forgotten Door" was the book that did it for me.